Month: February 2013 (page 3 of 3)

Special Announcement: Guide To Multicultural Resources has been launched!

Here at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, we’re thrilled to announce that with the help of our steadfast volunteer Joe Miller who compiled all of this information, we have just launched our Guide To Multicultural Resources!

Check ’em out. This resource highlights work in comics and cartooning that has been done by African Americans, Latino Americans, and Asian Americans. Each guide is presented in two different organizational structures containing the same content, in order to facilitate varying researcher needs. The first section of each guide is organized by material type (biographical files, original art, archival collections, bound volumes, comic books, online resources, and more), and the second is organized alphabetically by creator.

The guides do not include international or foreign language materials in our collection, although we do have a lot of those materials as well.

Our intention is to emphasize the incredible work that has been done by minorities in the world of comics, and if any readers or researchers have suggested additions or comments on the guides’ organization, we encourage you to get in touch!

Found in the Collection: Early E.C. Segar work

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Mechanical reproduction of early work from Elzie Crisler Segar, for W.L. Evans cartooning correspondence course. From the Mark J. Cohen and Rose Marie McDaniel Collection, The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (click to enlarge)

In 1912 at the age of 18, the yet-to-be-known E.C. Segar signed up for a cartooning correspondence course under a man named W.L. Evans out of Cleveland, Ohio. He would later come to credit Evans as a true mentor, and the lessons he learned in this course as the key to his success in creating Popeye.

“The Jungle Song” pictured above is one of Segar’s assignments from way back then. When enlarged, you can see comments to Segar from Evans including “you have the humorous spirit all right

In June of 1935, Segar gives a nod to W.L. Evans in a Sappo strip in which the character has recently taken a correspondence course to become a cartoonist. Take a closer look at the first panel and you’ll see the initials “W.L.E.” on Sappo’s diploma.

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E.C. Segar’s “Sappo”, June 16th, 1935. From the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection, The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (click to enlarge)

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