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The Billy Ireland Comics Library and Museum

Who would have thought, even twenty years ago, that there would be an archive solely devoted to the study of comics? It would be like having a museum–and research library–at the U of Hawai’i dedicated to hula, or one at my alma mater, UT-Austin, devoted to barbeque. But I’ve just spent an entire week at exactly this place, one of the coolest archives ever: the … Continue reading The Billy Ireland Comics Library and Museum

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The last camera store in Maryland?

I am getting ready for a research trip next week to the Billy Ireland Comics Library and Museum at The Ohio State University, in Columbus. What am I researching? In a word: comics. Or two words: early comics. And I want to take pictures of them. Most people don’t know or remember how wonderful the comics pages (or the funnies, they used to call them) once were. … Continue reading The last camera store in Maryland?

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