TIME's coverage of the comics, which began with a 1928 obituary of R.F. Outcault, creator of "The Yellow Kid," reflects the rise, fall and rise of the medium. Through the next three decades, comics, both in strip and comicbook form, became major pop-culture mediums, with increasing exposure in the magazine. The peak period was in the 1940s when three cartoonists made it to TIME's cover, including Bill Maudlin ("Willie & Joe"), H.T. Webster ("The Timid Soul") and Milton Caniff ("Terry & the Pirates"). Superman, who first arrived in 1938, and made it to the cover in 1988, became the magazine's most popular comics subject, with 21 articles throughout the years tracking his many iterations in the comics, movies, radio and even theater. In the late 1940s and early 1950s TIME covered America's increasing concern over comics' influence on children. Eventually congressional hearings led to the introduction of the Comics Code Authority. This censoring body precipitated a major decline in the medium and its coverage in the magazine from the 1960s through the end of the twentieth century. But lately, with the blossoming of long-form comics known as graphic novels, TIME has included over twice as many comics-related stories since 2000 than it had during the entire 1990s. (Way ahead of the curve, TIME's first review of a "novel" in cartoon form, Milt Gross' "He Done Her Wrong," appeared in 1930.) Below is a collection of every article ever published in TIME and on TIME.com covering cartoonists, comics, comic strips, comic books, comix and graphic novels. (Articles appearing in TIME.comix, my column on the world of current graphic literature, are not included since they are already collected into a separate index.) The links are organized primarily by the type of comic: strip, comic book or graphic novel, and then by subsections of each, where I saw natural groupings. Articles are in datical order within each section. Jun. 18, 1945 Maudlin's "Willie"   Nov. 26, 1945 H.T. Webster Jan. 13, 1947 Milton Caniff   Nov. 6, 1950 Al Capp Jul. 21, 1961 Bill Maudlin   Apr. 9, 1965 The World According to Peanuts Feb. 9, 1976 Trudeau's Doonesbury   Apr. 17, 1978 Saul Steinberg Mar. 14, 1988 Superman at 50   May 20, 2002 Spider-Man