We need your help TODAY to tell your governors and key members of the House and Senate that federal funding for libraries - the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) - needs to be preserved!
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Trump Administration Calls for Elimination of Federal Agency that Funds Libraries. Photo of White House at night.
Library lovers, we need your help. A recent executive order calls for the elimination of IMLS, the only federal agency that funds libraries nationwide. Without IMLS, many of the resources and programs we love could be at risk.
📚 Learn what you can do to help: ilovelibraries.org/article/trum...
Show Up For Our Libraries! By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration's Executive Order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Columbus folks! Join us today for our celebration of Ed Koren and the New Yorker featuring the very funny and talented Emily Flake! If driving, tell the parking attendant at the Union North Garage that you are coming to The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum to get 1/2 price on event parking.
Did you know that some of Eldon Dedini’s Golden Age Comic Books were donated to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, along with his artwork and papers? I packed the collection with his son. There were some Golden Age comics there with his brother’s name on the cover as well.
NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER FIRST I'LL BEND DOWN THE TOP LINE IN THIS PANEL THEN I'LL BEND THE SIDE LINES HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY -ERNIE BUSHMILLER
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
February 13,1971
The newspaper comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz originally published December 7, 1989. Marcie, as the French lass, walks by as Snoopy, The World War I Flying Ace, stands with a heart above his head, looking at her and smiling with his front paws clenched to his chest. Marcie continues to walk by, ignoring him. Snoopy, now frowning, kicks the heart.
Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz originally published on December 7, 1989
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😠 I thought we were past this type of prejudice against comics.
Keith Knight's K Chronicles, installment celebrating Morrie Turner, whose Soul Corner history segment was a recurring Sunday feature in his Wee Pals comic strip.
Keep the Faith! Here's Keith Knight's tribute to Morrie Turner. Celebrate Black History all year long.
Exhibit gallery with Calvin and Hobbes art.
There’s still time to see the Calvin and Hobbes exhibit at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene, OR! Open through February 2.
Photo of Milton Caniff with pen and ink. Insert of Buckeye leaf sticker.
Congrats to The Ohio State Buckeyes on winning the National Championship! Did you know the Buckeye leaf on the football players’ helmets was designed by our founder, cartoonist Milton Caniff, who graduated from OSU in 1930? See more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1ACD...
Political cartoon depicting two people in white hoods and robes labeled “KKK” standing on either side of a tree labeled “American Liberty” on its trunk. The two people are chopping into the trunk with axes. Branches of the tree are labeled “The Ballot,” “Free Speech,” “Free Press,” “The Constitution,” “Law and Order,” and “Religious Freedom.”
A 1923 cartoon by Winsor McCay that turned up yesterday in the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection. Thanks to the many generous donors who gave to our crowdfunding campaign, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum continues to organize, rehouse and catalog the massive collection.
And do you know that Special Collections (like the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum) at the Big Ten Academic Alliance universities can send materials to each other for use by patrons? btaa.org/library/prog...
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Peanuts float at Macy’s Thanksgiving parade
Snoopy balloon at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Pencil drawing of the first panel of the story “The Ghost Bear” featuring a horse rearing up against a snarling bear.
Check out these gorgeous preliminary pencils by Roy Krenkel for “The Ghost Bear.” Prize Comics Western, 1955. On view now at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.
Such a heartbreaking cartoon though.
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