Wednesday, February 06, 2013

Our buddy Bernard examines Wertham's cold remains

Local comics historian Warren Bernard (friend of ComicsDC, SPX grand poobah) volunteers at the Library of Congress' prints and photos division, identifying editorial cartoons and topics for them, but he snuck over to the building next door to research and write an article on Fredric Wertham's anti-comics crusade for the Comics Journal #302. Warren's kindly convinced the journal to put his research material online.

Warren Bernard's Citations and Fredric Wertham Documents
BY Warren Bernard Feb 6, 2013   
http://www.tcj.com/warren-bernard-1954/

3 comments:

Me said...

Wow, thanks for posting this! Lotsa cool stuff outt there now, you can now see Wertham's sloppy handwriting...

Carol L. Tilley said...

Hi Mike -

I hope you'll have a chance to check out the recent research piece I wrote on Wertham that's highlighted in this press release: http://news.illinois.edu/news/13/0211comics_CarolTilley.html

Regards,
Carol

Mike Rhode said...

Carol, I saw the press release and have gotten a copy of your published paper to read.

You might be interested in this story of the opening of the papers that appeared here - http://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2011/01/frederic-wertham-papers-opened-at.html