Cartoonist Pat Marrin selected some "Francis, the comic strip" cartoons and panels to be included in this article. You can click on each of the full, three-panel comic strips below to enlarge them.

Cartoon Issue; The Duckton Weekly #12; Alley Oop new and old; all-new Bloom County; where, oh where, has my Zoolies gone; Ed Steckley caricatures the Reuben Award nominees. Seven Days Cartoon Issue ...

Wildly popular strips like “Bloom County,” “Calvin and Hobbes,” “Cathy,” “The Far Side” “and “Doonesbury” peaked in the 1980s, but they left their mark.