America’s Labor Day is fast approaching. This holiday recognizes the nation’s workers, though the labor force has certainly changed since the Federal government enacted the holiday in 1894!Newspaper comics have featured all sorts of workers during their long history. Below we’ve sampled a handful fo

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29.11.2022

An Isolated Bravo! – Library of American Comics

The recentPreviewslistings brings glad tidings for fans of one of the medium’s true Masters, and for those who may have missed a pair of nifty books the first time around. The Library of American Comics, in partnership with IDW, is again making available a pair of milestone releases by and about tha

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13.12.2022

A Titanic Team: Popeye & London – Library of American Comics

So around Thanksgiving-time I decided to re-organize my books, which occupy fourteen seven-foot bookshelves on two floors in our home. What was I thinking? It meant moving over seven thousand hardcovers, artbooks, and large-size paperbacks, with many of the books that had been upstairs going downsta

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17.12.2022

Ho-Ho-Ho from Fifty Years Ago … – Library of American Comics

We bring 2022 to a close with a Fantasy Comics Page from a half-century past — welcome to Christmas Day, 1972! Many narrative strips of the period were willing to pause to mark the holiday: you’ll seeBuz Sawyerdoing a “before and after” outing that allowed snowbound northerners to sigh at the idea o

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Here’s to the Working Man (and Woman)! – Library of American Comics

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Ho-Ho-Ho from Fifty Years Ago … – Library of American Comics

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