Library of American Comics

With the Spooky Season hard upon us, we thought you might enjoy a Hallowe’en-themed fantasy comics page. We opted to go back seventy-four years, to October 31, 1949. The adventure and soap opera strips of the day were too busy unfolding their ongoing...

With our releases of Lynn Johnston’s heart-warming For Better or For Worse continuing to flow (work on Volume Eight in the series is going on at this moment), I thought it might be fun to look at some of the coverage both the comic strip and its creator...

As we continue our occasional series spotlighting material shared with us by that longtime Friend of LOAC, Bill Chadbourne, we thought we’d note that, during our ongoing e-mail exchanges, Chad discusses a lot more than comics with us.
For instance, we share a love of what is now known as “classic” cinema, as well as its featured actors and actresses. Today’s hyper-saturated media landscape lends itself to celebrity, but in those days there were stars who maintained an enduring hold...

In Part 1 of this two-part ramble, I shared several pieces of work from 1975’s excellent STreet Enterprises Benefit Portfolio, created in support of the publishers of The Menomonee Falls Gazette. We discussed how I had been previously unaware of the...