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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