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Posted by: Joanna Colclough
Crockett Johnson (1906-1975), born David Johnson Leisk, had a career as a cartoonist and newspaper comic strip artist before he wrote children’s books, most notably “Harold and the Purple Crayon.” See where you can find his work in the journals and newspapers at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Behind the Bylines, Newspaper Comic Strips, Newspapers
![Screenshot of new Library of Congress Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room website featuring a photo of a person’s hand holding a white button emblazoned with “I love [heart image] Old News” just above a wooden desk surface with a wire basket in the background. Caption, “About this Reading Room” appears above photo. Photo is surrounded by main navigation menu above and sidebar menu to the left.](https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/files/2023/06/newserwebsite_crp.jpg)
Posted by: Mike Queen
Blog post promoting new Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room website.
Posted in: Comic Books, Digitized Newspapers, Government Documents, Newspaper Comic Strips, Newspapers, Web Archives, Web Comics
Posted by: Amber Paranick
Presenting feel-good news stories to round out our posts for the year and say farewell to 2020 on a positive note! Hopefully, these uplifting, heartfelt, funny, and touching stories from yesterday’s news in Chronicling America* serve as a diversion from the darker news of this year… In 1947, after scouring newspaper stories around the country, …
Posted in: African American History, Digitized Newspapers, Holidays, Newspaper Comic Strips, Newspapers, Sports, Women's History
Posted by: Amber Paranick
This post is a collaboration with Dr. Christina Burr, Associate Professor in History at the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, where she teaches courses in North American Popular Culture, Women’s History, and a Graduate Seminar on the Modern Girl. Dr. Burr and I met while she was conducting research on-site at the Library …
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Newspaper Comic Strips, Newspapers, Women's History
Posted by: Malea Walker
When was the last time you curled up with the Sunday comics section of your local newspaper? Below are some good ol’ jokes presented to you through comic strips available on the Library’s website through Chronicling America* and the Prints and Photographs Division. You might recognize some of these characters, but others might be new …
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Holidays, Newspaper Comic Strips
Posted by: Arlene Balkansky
Wally Wallgren and C. LeRoy Baldridge, the two-person art department of the WWI era military newspaper, The Stars and Stripes, created cartoons that took the paper's motto to heart: "By and For the Soldiers of the A. E. F."
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Journalism, Newspaper Comic Strips, World War I
Posted by: Megan Halsband
From the original copyright deposit drawing of the Yellow Kid to web comics, 120 years of comic art from the Library of Congress’ collections are now on exhibit in the Graphic Arts Galleries in the Thomas Jefferson Building!
Posted in: Comic Books, Let's Talk Comics, Newspaper Comic Strips, Web Archives, Web Comics
Posted by: Amber Paranick
The Brooklyn Bridge opens as the longest suspension bridge in the world and is regarded by some as the eighth “wonder of the world.” The “forerunner of the giants” still stands and is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. When architect John A. Roebling first proposed building a bridge to span the …
Posted in: Comic Books, Digitized Newspapers, Newspaper Comic Strips
Posted by: Megan Halsband
Before comic books, people read comics in their local newspapers such as Little Nemo, Mutt and Jeff, and the Yellow Kid. Read more about these early comics in the collections of the Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room.
Posted in: Comic Books, Newspaper Comic Strips, Newspapers