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Posted by: Malea Walker
Calling all teachers, students, cartoonists, and comics fans of all ages! Join us at the Library on Friday, September 12, to hear from two-time Eisner Award winning cartoonist and international comics instructor, Paul Karasik. Read more about it!
Posted in: Comic Books, Small Press Expo
Posted by: Joel Mota
Summer break is in its final days and that means…there is still time to read some comics! Take a look at the college days of Aquaman and Daffy Duck, and the summer antics of Archie, Richie Rich, and more!
Posted in: Comic Books
Posted by: Joel Mota
While participating in the Library’s Archives, History, and Heritage Advanced Internship Program (AHHA), Lucy Havens researched the representation of Black cartoon and comic creators in the Library’s Comic Book Collection. Here she highlights a handful of “firsts” in the history of Black and African American cartoons and comics. Read more about it!
Posted in: African American History, Chronicling America, Comic Books, Newspaper Comic Strips
Posted by: Joel Mota
The following is a guest post by Regan Chambers-Kleiner who recently interned at the Library in the Serial and Government Publications Division as a part of the Archives, History and Heritage Advanced Internship Program (AHHA). From September to November, I worked as an intern with the Library’s AHHA program. My project was to review and …
Posted in: Comic Books
Posted by: Meg Metcalf
This blog post examines the history of Marvel comic book characters Agatha Harkness and Wanda Maximoff and their relationship to the witches' road featuring titles from the comic book collection at the Library of Congress
Posted in: Comic Books, Women in Comics, Women's History
Posted by: Meg Metcalf
The Small Press Expo (SPX) Collection at the Library of Congress was established to preserve the history of both the artistic output of the creators who come to SPX, as well as the art that SPX itself generates as part of its yearly festival. SPX provides a forum for artists, writers and publishers of comic …
Posted in: Comic Books, LGBTQ+, Small Press Expo
Posted by: Malea Walker
The end of August is near and you know what that means…back to school time! Let’s close out summer with comic book stories, from the Simpsons to Superman and more!
Posted in: Comic Books
Posted by: Malea Walker
One of the Library's many outstanding comic book holdings is the 24 original drawings by Steve Ditko for Amazing Fantasy No. 15 in August 1962, including the Spider-Man origin story. The iconic images were donated to the Library by an anonymous donor in 2008. They are included in the opening exhibit of the David M. Rubenstein Treasures Gallery.
Posted in: Comic Books
Posted by: Malea Walker
Staff of the Manuscript and Serial & Government Publications divisions will hold a roundtable discussion with three comic studies scholars who will make brief presentations on current research, and discuss psychiatrist Fredric Wertham’s anti-comics legacy.
Posted in: Comic Books