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Announcement--SFACA Newspaper Comic Strips Collection finding aid available
A finding aid to the Newspaper Comic Strips subgroup of the San Francisco
Academy of Comic Art (SFACA) collection is now available on the World
Wide Web. This subgroup includes over 2.5 million independent daily and
Sunday strip episodes from U.S. newspapers, in the form of individual
clippings, tear sheets, and complete Sunday sections. The
collection covers nationally syndicated comic strips from 1898 to
1996.
Records are organized by title, and include holdings dates, creator
names, alternate titles, and a representative image of each comic
feature.
The collection, begun by Bill Blackbeard in the late 1960s, was acquired
by the Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library in 1997. It
is available as a resource for researchers interested in the history of
comic strips, as well as other subjects related to U.S. newspapers, such
as American journalism, commercial printing, and the graphic arts.
The finding aid can be accessed at:
http://dlib.lib.ohio-state.edu/cga
The SFACA collection not only includes comic strips but
also comic books and graphic novels, popular periodicals, popular
fiction, dime novels and story papers, science fiction fanzines, and
other materials related to popular narrative art and writing.
Monograph and serial items can be searched through OSU's online catalog,
OSCAR.
OSCAR can be accessed at:
http://library.ohio-state.edu/search
Amy McCrory
Project Archivist
Cartoon Research Library
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH