Charles Vess Donates Book Of Ballads Material To LOC



Charles Vess sent out a press release yesterday that he's received an official letter of acknowledgment from Allene Hayes at the Library Of Congress for his donation of 132 original pages of art from his The Book Of Ballads project to the library. Vess also included notated scripts and early layouts for each story with his donation. Hayes is the USAN Acting Chief at the library.

The material is from Vess' adaptation project of works from songs with a basis in the oral tradition of England and Scotland. The release lists participating writers as Neil Gaiman, Jane Yolen, Sharyn McCrumb, Charles de Lint, Jeff Smith, Midori Snyder, Emma Bull, Graham Pratt, Elaine Lee, Delia Sherman, Lee Smith and Vess. The Eisner award-winning project was begun in 1995 and finished with a hardcover collection in 2004.

The material will be kept with another comics and related work in the library's Prints and Photographs Division.

image of work by Jeff Smith and Charles Vess provided by Vess
 
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