The book features over 7000 newspaper comics series with the following information:

There are two major styles used in newspaper comics, single panels and strips.

The reading of newspaper comics each day was a major entertainment activity during the first half of the 20th century.

As with many newspaper comics, the strips for Sundays are larger and have more panels.

"Calvin and Hobbes" remains one of the best newspaper comics in history.

Cook has been experimenting with different styles and subject matters that go beyond the traditional newspaper comics.

Animal Crackers is the title of several syndicated newspaper comics over the years.

Readers are attracted to newspaper comics but, with the recession, editors have devoted less space to them.

Others are three- or four-panel comic strips that have the same structure as newspaper comics.

Watterson spent much of his career trying to change the climate of newspaper comics.