It is difficult to answer this accurately as most modern comic strips are syndicated and run in different papers simultaneously (Hurrah for the ancestors of the internet such as the wire services and teletype!) For example Dick Tracy concurrently ran-identical plots and stories in The New York Daily News and the Los Angeles Times. One ciould foloow the story line from either paper. The King feature syndicate syndicated Popeye and also Felix the Cat. They were among the oldest, antedating Disney and Warner in the animated cartoon and comics field.
You usually read them in the newspaper or in a comic book
bill waterson author of Calvin and Hobbes i think
Modern American comic books evolved from the compilations that newspaper publishers produced when collecting the comic strips together . For example , The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck which is regarded as the first comic book .
Comic strips, or a story told in a series of images, have been used as a storytelling medium since ancient Egypt. Modern comic strips, as seen in the newspaper, have The Yellow Kid, from the late 19th Century, being credited as the first true comic strip featured in a newspaper.
The first comic strip is believed to be "The Yellow Kid" by Richard F. Outcault, which appeared in newspapers in 1895. It is considered one of the earliest examples of the comic strip format as we know it today.
The New York World newspaper , Hogan's Alley by Richard F. Outcault .
in the newspaper (different newspapers carry different comic strips).
The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck was published in America in the 1840s.
Comic books started, originally, as a way to collect and sell newspaper comic strips together.
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It was actually a book that reprinted alot of past comic strips from the newspaper. That's actually how it got it's name considering they're not always comical.