Showing posts with label Library of Congress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Library of Congress. Show all posts

Sunday, June 08, 2025

This weekend's Civitan flea market comics and cartoon finds (need some artist ID help)

This weekend's Civitan flea market comics and cartoon finds. Most were under 2 dollars. The comics and fanzines will go to the Library of Congress as will most of the ephemera. If anyone can help ID the World War II cartoonist, I'd appreciate it. And the golf blotter cartoonist.  


Signed first issue of Sex Criminals by Chip Zdarsky and
 Amanda Connor variant cover of Star Wars Princess Leia

Golf cartoon blotters from Minnesota Mining and Mfg Co by unknown cartoonist. 
Being donated to Library of Congress after hi-res scanning


Signed Herblock biography; these are still fairly easy to find around DC.

Dreams I fanzine cover. The Hobbit by CC Beck.

There's one copy at Bowling Green University library. Copies will be going to LoC and OSU soon.

A collection of fantasy illustrations by Frank Frazetta, Roy Krenkle, Robert Crumb, Harvey Kurtzman, Neal Adams, Jim Starlin, R. Crandall, Jeff Jones, Al Bradford and Martin Grimes, Berni Wrightson, and Vaughn Bode

Dreams I fanzine back cover. Flash Gordon by Al Williamson.

                                                                  Dreams I fanzine title page.


Adventures of Big Boy 288

Adventures of Big Boy 263, in New York City

Adventures of Big Boy 266, with Superman

Adventures of Big Boy 257

ERBdom 27 fanzine from 1969.

Draw! 16 with Howard Chaykin

Draw! 18 with R.M. Guera.

The Acid Test political cartoons by William Sanderson.   

Avengers Assemble featuring Captain Citrus #1.

Copies of these are going to LoC and OSU (if they want it)


Avengers Assemble featuring Captain Citrus #2.


"Tony's Sports Comics" Kellogg's cereal giveaway.  Published by DC Comics in conjunction with Sports Illustrated. Cover titled "Nolan Ryan in The Winning Pitch." Art by Angelo Torres, according to Rodrigo Baeza.

 

Jimmy's Coloring Book cover by Neal Adams.

Jimmy's Coloring Book inside page by Bob MacLeod?

Peanuts to President by Blanche Ackerman with cartoons by David Suter. Silver Spring, MD: Adam Publishing Co., 1977.  Only held in 4 libraries.




Fisherman's laugh book. [Baxter Lane Co.], [Amarillo, Tex.], [©1973] 1 copy in 1 library.  
  

Unidentified WWII cartoonist photocopy
 
Does anyone know who this is drawn by? There's a symbol in the lower right. When I used Google image search this is the slop it gave me:
 
 

Gib Crockett original cartoon of Franklin Roosevelt saying "My Country First" into a microphone

 
German cartoon print on fashion in women's hats, probably removed from a magazine. Translated title as Fantasy of Fall Styles, 1882.



Justice League movie mook.

Thursday, May 22, 2025

Cartoon postcards being donated to Library of Congress

Here's some cartoon postcards that I'm giving to the Prints and Photos division of the Library of Congress for the Mike Rhode ephemera collection.

 The first three are by the cartoonist Dwig.

ca. 1909 (dates based on postmarks)
ca. 1909
ca. 1910
ca 1908
ca. 1910

Thursday, April 03, 2025

AHHA! Discovering Black, Hispanic and Indigenous Comic Book Creators

Headlines & Heroes: Newspapers, Comics & More Fine Print from the Library of Congress

Regan Chambers-Kleiner
04/03/2025 

The following is a guest post by Regan Chambers-Kleiner who recently interned at the Library in the Serial and Government Publications Division as a part of the Archives, History and Heritage Advanced Internship Program (AHHA). From September to November, I worked as an intern with the Library's AHHA program. My project was to review and …

 

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Some candid photos of Jules Feiffer in DC

 Here's some pictures I took at times he was visiting DC.

Thursday, Oct 12, 2006 - Library of Congress





 
Wednesday, November 1, 2006  - Library of Congress


 
Thursday, March 18, 2010 - Politics and Prose Bookstore





 
  Friday, September 12, 2014 - Politics and Prose Bookstore 




 
I'm sure I have more, but this is what Google Photos found tonight.