Dave Berg

Glaciers, mountains, whales and fresh fish — scads of fresh fish — all await visitors to southeast Alaska. But if you come by cruise ship, scads of tacky dockside shops and huge crowds also await. Last summer, cruise liners disgorged 876,...

If you're a fan of older comic books and comic strips, Fantagraphics is your Santa Claus. The 21st century has proved a golden age for the reproduction of classic comics, with stellar reprint series from Boom! Studios, IDW and others. But Fantagraphics is...

“Totally MAD: 60 Years of Humor, Satire, Stupidity and Stupidity.” Edited by John Ficarra, c. 2012, Time Home Entertainment, $34.95/$37.95 Canada, 256 pages.  There are many things you still wish you had from your childhood. Freedom to...

Thing 3: With a first-time big-league manager, it will be imperative for the Miami Marlins to put a trusted resource by Mike Redmond's side as his bench coach. Ideally, that bench coach should be fluent in Spanish to help handle that increasingly...

MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) — American Crystal Sugar Co. on Monday rejected a proposal to end the cooperative’s six-month lockout of its factory workers in three states, calling it a ‘‘publicity stunt’’ by the leadership of...

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) — As the lockout of 1,300 union workers at American Crystal Sugar Co. stretches into a sixth month, a question is getting asked: Is the cooperative formed by area farmers in 1973 more concerned with the financial bottom line than...

Although he neither coined the term "graphic novel" nor invented the form, Will Eisner ranks among America's most celebrated and influential sequential artists. The creator of "The Spirit" (a comic book hero who solved crimes without recourse to...

The 2003 salaries for the 827 major league baseball players on opening day rosters and disabled lists. Figures were obtained by The Associated Press from management and player sources and include salaries and pro-rated shares of signing bonuses and...