Featuring jokes, riddles, and paper-and-pencil word games, math challenges, nonograms, connect-the-dots art, crossword puzzles and anagrams,[1] Funland has appeared in newspapers and comic books since 1933, and has been syndicated regularly since 1950.
Nugent credited Uncle Art's Funland's ongoing success "to its being one of the few newspaper features created exclusively for children.
With Uncle Art's Funland, however, toddlers enjoy coloring the pictures, while older children work the puzzles.
[10][11] Essentially the same concept as Uncle Art's Funland, the single-page feature was published in many Golden Age comics under a variety of titles: The Oakland Press published a collection of Funland puzzles (created by Art Nugent, Jr.) in The Oakland Press Funny Book (October 8, 1978).
Funland: Super-Packed with Puzzles, Jokes, Amazing Facts and Lots more Exciting Fun!, by Art Nugent and Leo White, is a 132-page paperback collection published by Playmore in 1982.