COLUMBUS, Ohio — Amid “flyover country,” as it’s colloquially and insultingly referred to, in an unendingly flat city nicknamed “Cowtown,” the Ohio State University (OSU) erupts as an archetypal ...

The school that proudly possesses the 2010 Rose Bowl trophy also holds the world's largest collection of cartoon and comics art. Didn't know that? Neither do many people on campus, where the Billy ...

One person's trash is another person's treasure. And for the late Bill Blackbeard, the treasure that he'd stored from floor to ceiling in his San Francisco home was maybe the largest, most ...

Comic book lovers have a new paradise. It's not the Batcave or the Fortress of Solitude; it's a new cartoon library and museum, tucked into a nondescript building on the Ohio State University campus.

Jenny Robb says we are living in the golden age of cartoons and comics. “When I was growing up, we didn’t have graphic novels for a children’s audience,” says Robb, head curator of the Billy Ireland ...

After months of shutdown, the 300,000 cartoons, 45,000 books and 2.5 million comic strip clippings at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum will see the light of day again. When the library ...

Nina Allender created political cartoons for The Suffragist newspaper. Library of Congress Nina Allender saw herself as a painter. But after women’s rights activist Alice Paul visited her in 1913, she ...

Cartoonist Nancy Burton has donated 65 pieces of original underground comix art to The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. Known by her pennames Hurricane Nancy, Nancy Kalish and Panzika, Nancy ...

PENINSULA, Ohio – Peninsula Library will present “A Celebration of Animation: The 100 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time” with local author and pop-culture historian Marty Gitlin. The free, ...

Guru takes a tour of Bangkok's first cartoon library Under the theme of "Cartoon Inspiration of Reading", the Discovery Learning Library in Huai Khwang has recently transformed itself from a regular ...