It's not comics, but it's in the Library of Congress now thanks to the comics curator

My buddy Sara Duke pulled off another coup. Or these days, let us rather say, collecting triumph.

Historic Yosemite Falls sketch that captivated the nation lands at the Library

03/06/2026 https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/03/historic-yosemite-falls-sketch-that-captivated-the-nation-lands-at-the-library/

In 1855, when Thomas Ayers published the first images of Yosemite Falls, the rest of the country was enchanted. His sketchwork of the Yosemite Valley predated the famous photographs by Carleton Watkins and the monumental paintings by Albert Bierstadt in the 1860s that would cement the valley's reputation as the romantic dream of the American West incarnate. The Library recently acquired one of Ayers sketches, along with a companion lithograph, preserving them — and their moment in national history — for generations to come.