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Let’s Talk Comics: LGBTQIA+ Titles

Posted by: Amber Paranick

June is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQIA+) Pride Month. LGBTQIA+ is an acronym used in the Library’s collection policy statement to signify lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual. In honor of Pride Month, I wanted to highlight titles and anthologies within our collection that either include queer characters, were created by LGBTQIA+ talent and creators, or serve as memorable firsts in comics history.

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Let’s Talk Comics: Comics as Data

Posted by: Megan Halsband

Good news everyone – the first webcomics dataset is available here!!! Wait, what? As a part of the Library’s work to explore our web archives, my colleagues at LC Labs and the Web Archiving Team have made a dataset generated from content harvested from the Library of Congress’s web archive of qwantz.com (Dinosaur Comics!). So …

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September = Comics

Posted by: Megan Halsband

For me, the end of the summer has become a time of year when I get to work extensively with our independent comic materials in the Small Press Expo Collection. Every year since 2011, staff from the Library of Congress have attended the Small Press Expo, a festival dedicated to celebrating all things indie comics, …