I received the following email this morning: “I’m done with Mark Trail. This current plot line not only has been running for what seems like five years, but it just has become unreadable. Just drive a ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. After moving to Maine in 1986, I savored reading “Mark Trail” daily. It ...

SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. -- In a Sandy Springs house, in the basement is a portal, a doorway to childhood for the millions of us who grew up reading the funny papers -- learning about wildlife from a ...

When you’ve been writing a column as long as I have, you should be able to point to some good things that happened because of what you wrote. One I’ve always felt good about was my role in rescuing ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The “Mark Trail” comic strip, created in ...

Cartoonist Ed Dodd, creator of ”Mark Trail,” the he-man outdoorsman of the comics, died of congestive heart failure Monday at age 88. Mr. Dodd, who underwent heart-bypass surgery in 1984 and suffered ...

The "Mark Trail" strip for June 9 was two beavers too far. (James Allen, North American Syndicate) In the end, it was the stupid little beavers that did it. From March 9 to June 9 — three whole months ...

Change comes slowly in the world of Mark Trail, the nature-loving hero of a comic strip that debuted in the funny pages way all the way back in 1946. Mark Trail is a guy, after all, who dated his ...