Missed It: Bergdoll Collection To The Billy Ireland



Because of a previous acquisition by the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum of underground comix-related material I totally missed a bigger, more significant collection going to the Columbus institution discussed here.

The weird hitch step in comics history where the mature comics-making for many of the underground great dovetailed into the emerging alternative comics movement and its mostly mainstream roots has given us a strange conception of that generation's comics that I think will have to be pulled about and examined as the practitioners themselves fade from view. That's a very exciting prospect as I wonder if we aren't due maybe major reconsiderations of up to two dozen cartoonists before 2030. Having this material in research-friendly institutions will be important to that effort.
 
posted 11:55 pm PST | Permalink
 

---

 
Daily Blog Archives
November 2019
October 2019
September 2019
August 2019
July 2019
 
Full Archives