John Rose was eating a nutritious breakfast of Cocoa Puffs when the phone rang. The year was 1998; the young Rose was trying to get a foot in the door of the comic strip biz. A few weeks earlier he'd ...

The comic strip Barney Google & Snuffy Smith appears in the Saturday edition of the Danville Register & Bee. Cartoonist John Rose is scheduled to appear at 1 p.m. Sunday for a presentation at the ...

BRISTOL, Tenn. - Truth be known, as kids most of us probably learned to read by reading the comic strips in our local newspapers. After skimming the headlines, it's probably still the next thing most ...

Snuffy Smith cartoonist John Rose discusses the new digital collection of Snuffy's centennial year, creating Lil' Sparky, and working with his daughter. Terence Dollard of UNC Pembroke hosts. Comic ...

The begetter of Barney Google and Snuffy Smith died last week in Manhattan. In many ways Billy De Beck lived a life as unreal as the comic-strip characters he fathered. When he was at high school in ...