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One Day at a Time
While we’re always excited about launching a new series, here’s one that has us revved up even more than usual. We’ve been planning it for quite some time and and it’s actually a bunch of series within...
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A George Herriman first edition
As newspaper comic strips continue to lose presence because of their host organism’s decline in readership, we’ve decided to ramp up our efforts to preserve the classics of the form. We previously...
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JUST ANNOUNCED: LOAC Essentials, Vol. 12: Baron Bean, 1918
We know you’ve been waiting, but the wait is over! Coming November 2018, The Library of American Comics proudly presents THE LIBRARY OF AMERICAN COMICS ESSENTIALS, VOL. 12: BARON BEAN, 1918, the...
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Back to the Shelves
Several years ago we took some time in this space to show you what my LOAC bookshelf looked like. I shelve my books in alphabetical order by author, or by publisher where that makes more sense — for...
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Still ESSENTIALly The Baron — and His Friends
This week I received an advance copy of the twelfth LOAC Essentials volume, which also completes our reprinting of Baron Bean. As a stone George Herriman fan, that made my entire week special! Fronted...
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The “LOAC 2018 Year in Review” Sandwich: A Ten-Book Filling Between Two CANYONs
Early in each new year we look back at the prior twelve months in LOAC-Land. It provides our readers with a handy one-stop checklist of our most recent books — and it helps remind us of what we were up...
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The Grand Finale of the LOAC Wheel of Fortune!
Just a few weeks ahead of almost everyone else, my copies of LOAC Essentials Volume 14: Barney Google arrived on Saturday. Much as I enjoy seeing Billy DeBeck’s work, unpacking these copies also jazzed...
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Mile Markers on the Road to 200: #s 51-100
Continuing our review of the first two hundred LOAC books, which began here, take a look at our fifty-first to one hundredth releases … … And here’s what jumps out at me as I scan this list. As noted...
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Mile Markers on the Road to 200: Reaching the Sesquicentennial
Continuing our review of the first two hundred LOAC books, which began here and continued right here, what follows is a look at our one hundred first to one hundred fiftieth releases … … And here are...
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Mile Markers on the Road to 200: LOAC’s Bicentennial Biggies
Concluding our look back on our first two hundred releases — the earlier installments can be found here, here, and here, too — we check out LOAC books number one hundred fifty-one to two hundred,...
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That was Then …
… When “then” was 2013. Almost eight years ago, I put together this visual to depict the strips contained in LOAC books, based on the original publication dates of their contents. The results were...
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… This is Now
Last time we gathered in this space I shared a 2013 visual I crafted, depicting The Library of American Comics output circa 2013, based on when the comic strips that we reprinted had originally...
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