Promotional ads touting the debut of six great comic strips that have been collected in LOAC editions.
Category Archives: Terry and the Pirates
"Cap" Stubbs & Tippie, Blondie, Bringing Up Father, Bungle Family, Dick Tracy, King Aroo, Little Orphan Annie, Popeye, Scorchy Smith, Terry and the Pirates, The Gumps
Corned Beef, Cabbage, and an Errant Rolling Pin
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May
May
Every so often we receive emails from fans bemoaning the fact that one reprint series or another wasn’t successful enough (in other words, didn’t sell enough copies) for the series to continue. A recent email to that effect about our two Bringing Up Father books got me thinking. We have really spoiled ourselves and each […]
Caniff, General News, Steve Canyon, Terry and the Pirates
Found Inside The Iron Gate (First in a Series)
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Apr
Apr
The Air Force Association (AFA) was founded in 1945 when the head of the Army Air Forces, General Hap Arnold, campaigned for the creation of a veterans group that would support establishing the Air Force as a separate branch of the military. Chapters of the AFA blossomed in major cities coast to coast, and when […]
Chuck Jones, Li'l Abner, Little Orphan Annie, Scorchy Smith, Terry and the Pirates
Mile Markers on the LOAC Road to 200
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Jan
Jan
With a brand-new year and LOAC Essentials Volume 14: Barney Google available on sale, we’ve now successfully traveled The Library of American Comics Road to 200. Each month during 2019 in this space we paused to feature one of our books via the trusty ol’ LOAC Wheel of Fortune, but now seems like an opportune time […]
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Dec
Dec
As we pause for a bit here at The Library of American Comics — to celebrate the holidays, see out the old year, and prepare to mark our 200th release — we wanted to take something of a trip back to The Way It All Began (kudos to you if you pinpointed the source of […]
Here’s LOAC Art Director Lorraine Turner with Francesco Meo of the Italian comics publisher Cosmo Editoriale. We had lunch with Francesco today in Bologna, renewing the friendship we established at Angoulême last year. Newspaper strips fans will be glad to know that Francesco is publishing Italian editions of Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon, Dick […]