OSU Cartoon Library gifted $1 Million endowment
Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library has received an anonymous donation of $1 million to fund an endownment. Lucy Shelton…
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Cartoon Museum hosts Comics Read by Creators
The Cartoon Art Museum and Zine Fest will present “From the Horse’s Mouth: Comics Read by their Creators” on July…
Library receives grant for original cartoon art
The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), Syracuse University Library has been awarded a grant of $79,440 by the National Historical…
Harvey Comics exhibit to open in San Francisco
The San Francisco based Cartoon Art Museum will open an exhibit starting June 28 featuring “a visual history of one…
Dick Tracy Museum is now closed
Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy Museum in Woodstock, IL officially closed yesterday with a closing ceremony. The museum announced earlier this…
ToonSeum presents Children in Cartoons and Comics
The Pittsburg based ToonSeum will open a new exhibit entitled “Just Kidding Around: Children in Cartoons and Comics” on June…
Mort Walker talks about IMCA, OSU CRL merger
` Dave Astor has interviewed Beetle Bailey creator Mort Walker about the announcement yesterday that his International Museum of Cartoon…
International Museum of Cartoon Art moves to OSU Cartoon Research Library
Mort Walker’s International Museum of Cartoon Art (IMCA) will be moving its estimated 200,000 piece collection to the Ohio State…
News Briefs for May 5, 2008
» The Beat has your Free Comic Book Day round up. » Webcomic PhD (Piled Higher and Deeper) has partnered…
Herblock exhibit opens in Smithsonian
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will be opening an exhibit featuring famed editorial cartoonist Herbert “Herblock” Block in May. The…
ToonSeum celebrates Free Comic Book Day
The ToonSeum at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh kicks off Free Comic Book Day and National Cartoonists Day with guests:…
Kirkman, Scott headline Schulz Museum events
Baby Blues creators Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott will be at the Charles M. Schulz Museum this weekend for a…
Jan Eliot to be guest cartoonist at Schulz Musuem
Jan Eliot, creator of Stone Soup, will the featured Cartoonist-in-residence at the Charles Schulz Museum on May 10th where visitors…
Jay Kennedy’s cartoon collection now at Ohio State Cartoon Research Library
Ohio State Cartoon Research Library has announced that Jay Kennedy, the former King Features Syndicate Editor in Chief, who died…
News Briefs for February 26, 2008
» Former Times of Northwest Indiana editorial cartoonist Stacy Curtis has made a new career in illustration and according to…