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The Schulz Library is packed with zines, graphic novels, cartoon collections, and related ephemera— an amazing and inspirational resource for The Center for Cartoon Studies students and faculty.
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Bill Watterson, Comic Strip Giant
Note: Steve Bissette and I are teaching a course in contemporary comics history (Survey of the Drawn Story II, as it’s properly known). Our students are required to submit an essay, in blog form, on an aspect of contemporary comics history. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes, comic strips, Jacob Montgomery
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The Trial Of Mike Diana
Note: Steve Bissette and I are teaching a course in contemporary comics history (Survey of the Drawn Story II, as it’s properly known). Our students are required to submit an essay, in blog form, on an aspect of contemporary comics history. … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Horak, Boiled Angel, CBLDF, censorship, comics history, Mike Diana, mini comics, obscenity law, zines
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Romance Comics, Two Great Blogs
I just stumbled onto these two blogs. They are both excellent resources, with lots of scans. Just when I think I know a thing or two about romance comics, the internet reminds me that I’m just a dabbler! Sequential Crush, … Continue reading
Little Magazines of the Beat Generation
As I wrote before, little magazines were precursors for the modern zine and mini comic. And what are little magazines? They are non-commercial, small-press publications. Topics of interest include literature, art and social theory. Little magazines are usually avant-garde works … Continue reading
Romance Comics (The Basic Formula)
Romance comics appeared on the scene during the last years of comic’s Golden Age (invented Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, no less!) From 1948-1950 their popularity grew at an unprecedented rate. The first six months of 1950 was the high … Continue reading
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Tagged Dana Dutch, Matt Baker, Romance Comics, Simon & Kirby, Young Romance
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Witzend and Trashcans
There are so many little treasures in these walls. Take Witzend for instance. I never thought in a million years would I see a copy of this (can I call it a zine?)lovely publication. The periodical that Wally Wood started … Continue reading
Wilhelm Busch!
Who are these punks? Meet — if you haven’t met them before — Max und Moritz, one of the many ‘offspring’ of the amazing Wilhelm Busch, one of the 19th Century’s founding fathers of what we now call comics, comix … Continue reading
Steve Ditko's Konga — The Lonely One
It’s amazing what the ongoing romance between academia and comics continues to offer. Case in point, this week saw the publication of writer Christopher Hayton‘s in-depth ode to a group of comicbooks I dearly loved as a kid, but never … Continue reading
Witzend!
With everyone heading to MoCCA this weekend — well, not everyone, but a lot of CCSers make the pilgrimage every June — it seems appropo to pause and give thanks to Wally Wood for anticipating the underground comix and self-publishers … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Pearson, Dan Adkins, Mr A, Outlet, Steve Ditko, The Wizard King, Wally Wood, Witzend, World of the Wizard King
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Phantasies of a Prisoner
The Phantasies of a Prisoner Lowell Naeve 1958 Phantasies of a Prisoner is just one of those books. Just one of those books that you discover sitting on a shelf in your local cartoon library that seems as if it … Continue reading