Artist Bob Kane is best known for his creation of The Batman, one of the twentieth century's greatest mythic heroes. Inspired by the success of Jerry Siegal and Joe Shuster's Superman, Kane and his writer/partner Bill Finger developed a costumed...

IN 1981 Les Lilley {obituary, 4 November} took his Cartoonists' Club to New York to attend the American cartoonists' annual award ceremonies, writes Denis Gifford. I stayed on a few days extra to locate and interview some of the men whose strip cartoons meant...

ADMIRERS of Bob Kane claim he was influenced by Leonardo da Vinci. It is nonsense, of course. Had Mr Kane ever studied Leonardo's work he would have abandoned in shame his own pathetic attempts at drawing. Indeed, he seems to have given up...

Strands of distressed, red pine trees across northern Colorado and the Front Range are a visible testament to the bark beetle infestation that officials said will kill most of the state's lodgepole pine trees within 5 years.The infestation that was first detected in 1996 grew...

Animal advocates around the nation hope that public outrage over dogfighting and puppy mill scandals in Virginia will force state and federal lawmakers to pass tougher animal abuse laws.Some sportsmen, however, warn that the emotionally charged debate could result in laws affecting legitimate owners, especially...