Pin the Bow Tie on Buster Brown game heading to the Library of Congress

I picked up this cloth game over the weekend at a flea market. It's 119 years old, according to the ad that someone on the Platinum Comics history list found for me.

For modern parents who think merchandising of comics and cartoon characters are something new - nope! When characters such as Ally Sloper in the UK, and Yellow Kid, Buster Brown, and Foxy Grandpa in the US got a following in print, merchandising followed.

The Morning Call Wed Oct 18 1905

I don't know when the Library will get this cataloged but it'll be in the Prints and Photos division as of this week. Here's a few details.

Some more recent material was handed over too including the print edition of the 2023 Comics Research Bibliography, a complete set of 2024 Free Comic Book Day comics, and these gems.

From Artomatic, this print of tattooed Kewpies amused me, but I can't find the artist's name at the moment.

Life on Other Worlds, a 1978 portfolio I saw on Heritage  auctions that I was curious about so I bought it on e-bay for much less. The art by Al Williamson, Walt Simonson, Paul Gulacy, Howard Chaykin and P. Craig Russell is fine, but only Williamson's is accomplished.

And this has nothing to do with comics, but was a lovely steel engraving bookplate from Virginia Otis to add to the collection they already have.