Man Saves Comics Exhibition Checklist
The following is the full exhibition checklist from the exhibition Man Saves Comics!: Bill Blackbeard’s Treasure of 20th Century Newspapers, an exhibition curated by Caitlin McGurk & Ann Lennon at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, on display November 12, 2022 through May 7, 2023.
| TITLE | ARTIST | PUBLICATION | DATE | ||||
| Wall 1 | |||||||
| [black and white photo of Blackbeard holding newspaper page] | c. 1970 | ||||||
| [column of newspaper pages, interior of Blackbeard’s house] | Photo taken by R.C. Harvey | 1996 | |||||
| [Photograph of Blackbeard reading comics in bed] |
c. 1930-40 |
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| [photograph of Blackbeard in military uniform] | c. 1940-50 | ||||||
| [Blackbeard in blue shirt holding comic book] |
c. 1990 |
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| [Black and white photo of Blackbeard holding bound volume] | c. 1970 | ||||||
| [column of bound volumes, interior photo of Blackbeard’s house] | Photo taken by R.C. Harvey | 1996 | |||||
| [exterior photo of Bill Blackbeard’s home] | Photo taken by R.C. Harvey | 1996 | |||||
| San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Envelope | c. 1980 | ||||||
| [desk/workspace at SFACA] | c. 1970 | ||||||
| [polaroid of Blackbeard at desk] | c. 1970 | ||||||
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[column of boxes, interior of Bill Blackbeard’s house] |
Photo taken by R.C. Harvey | 1996 | |||||
| [Blackbeard in green shirt holding newspaper comic] | c. 1990 | ||||||
| [Map of SFACA newspaper holdings] | |||||||
| Case: Moving the Collection | |||||||
| [Blackbeard smiling against bound volumes] | c. 1990 | ||||||
| [bound volumes in the Billy Ireland] | 1998 | ||||||
| [columns of boxes] | 1998 | ||||||
| [piles of clippings] | 2000 | ||||||
| [worker holding clippings] | 2000 | ||||||
| [digitizing newspaper page] | 2001 | ||||||
| [open box of clippings] | 2001 | ||||||
| [entering clipping info in database] | 2001 | ||||||
| [entering newspaper page in database] | 2022 | ||||||
| [closeup of pile of newspaper pages] | 2022 | ||||||
| [sorted and wrapped clippings] | 2022 | ||||||
| [shelves of acid-free boxes] | 2022 | ||||||
| [researchers in reading room] | c. 2016 | ||||||
| [students in reading room] | c. 2022 | ||||||
| Bill Blackbeard: The Collector who Rescued the Comics | Alec Longstreth & Jenny E. Robb | 2019 | |||||
| Wall 1 right | |||||||
| McFadden’s Row of Flats | Richard F.Outcault | New York Journal | November 8, 1896 | ||||
| Tribune outgrows facilities in first year | Los Angeles Tribune | July 7, 1912 | |||||
| Things That Never Happen | Gene Byrnes | c. 1920 | |||||
| Do You Know Why — The Colleges Are Grinding Out So Many of These? | Thornton Fisher | 1913 | |||||
| Mary Worth metal printing plate | Ken Ernst | 1975 | |||||
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Pogo color separation flong |
Walt Kelly | April 14, 1974 | |||||
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Pogo color separation flong |
Walt Kelly | April 14, 1974 | |||||
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Pogo |
Walt Kelly | April 14, 1974 | |||||
| Case: Dime Novels, Story Papers, and Penny Dreadfuls / Pulp Fiction Magazines | |||||||
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Deadwood Dick on Deck; Or, Calamity Jane, The Heroine of Whoop-Up Vol. V., No. 57 |
Beadles Pocket Library | February 11, 1883 | |||||
| Nos. 17 & 18 | Spring-Heeled Jack, the Terror of London | ||||||
| Little Oskaloo, or, The White Whirlwind. Series 1 no. 17 | Nickel Library | 1887 | |||||
| The Get-There Sharp, Vol. LI no. 661 | Beadle’s New York Dime Library | 1891 | |||||
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In The Darkness of Night, No. 683. Vol. XXII |
The Princess Novelettes | March 20, 1899 | |||||
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Jack in the Jungle: A Tale of Land and Sea |
Frank Leslie’s Boys’ and Girls’ Weekly | September 16, 1876 | |||||
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Diamond Dick Jr.’s Lightning Deal. No. 187 |
Diamond Dick Library | May 30, 1896 | |||||
| An American Sherlock Holmes, Vol. XXX no. 759 | Golden Hours | 1902 | |||||
| Murder Concession, Vol. 42 no. 2 | Clues Detective Stories | July 1939 | |||||
| Cat’s Eye; Peril Among the Drivers, vol. 8 no. 11 | Amazing Stories | March 1934 | |||||
| Silver-Revolver Marriage, vol. 3 no. 6 | Romantic Range | April 1937 | |||||
| Maza of the Moon, vol. 208 no. 6 | Argosy | December 21, 1929 | |||||
| Letters of Death, vol. 2 no. 1 | Nick Carter Magazine | September 1933 | |||||
| Death Token, vol. 21 no. 1 | The Shadow Magazine | March 1937 | |||||
| While Paris Slept, vol. 1 no. 2 | Spy Stories | February 1929 | |||||
| The Lamia in the Penthouse, vol. 44 no. 4 | Weird Tales | May 1952 | |||||
| The Hoot Owl Trail, vol. 25 no. 3 | Cowboy Stories | March 1934 | |||||
| Wall 2 | |||||||
| Wee Harry Bauer named prettiest Chicago newsboy | Chicago American | November 12, 1904 | |||||
| M’Kinley is shot | Front page Night edition | Chicago American | September 6, 1901 | ||||
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M’Kinley may recover! |
Front page Xtra No.3 edition | Chicago American | September 6, 1901 | ||||
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McKinley will live! |
Front page Xtra No.4 edition | Chicago American | September 6, 1901 | ||||
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President M’Kinley is dead! |
Front page | Chicago American | September 14, 1901 | ||||
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How men poison each other |
Winsor McCay | New York Evening Journal | April 4, 1913 | ||||
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The human head – what is it? |
Winsor McCay | Los Angeles Examiner | August 3, 1919 | ||||
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How I sketched Evelyn Thaw |
Nell Brinkley | New York Evening Journal | January 14, 1908 | ||||
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My wonderful trip to the clouds |
Nell Brinkley | New York Evening Journal | May 21, 1914 | ||||
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[group picture of cartoonists at the ring] |
July 4, 1910 | ||||||
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Fighters go to the ring (Tad prediction) |
Tad Dorgan | Front page New York Evening Journal (Night Special Edition) | July 4, 1910 | ||||
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Champion Johnson tells Kate Carew |
Kate Carew | New York American | April 1, 1910 | ||||
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Tad shows blows with which Johnson expects to beat Jefferies |
Tad Dorgan | New York Evening Journal | July 4, 1910 | ||||
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Fifty dollars a throw they all look like mutts |
Bud Fisher | New York American | July 4, 1910 | ||||
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Champion Jack Johnson before, during and after the battle |
Tad Dorgan | New York Evening Journal | July 5, 1910 | ||||
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The last page of the Johnson-Jefferies story |
Rube Goldberg | San Francisco Call | July 6, 1910 | ||||
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The family upstairs (Krazy Kat strip footer) |
George Herriman | Chicago American | November 17, 1911 | ||||
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The Dingbat family (Krazy Kat strip footer) |
George Herriman | Chicago American | February 8, 1913 | ||||
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Krazy Kat Ladies an’ gent’mins |
George Herriman | SFACA Clipping, no newspaper information | December 19, 1943 | ||||
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Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing |
1916 | ||||||
| Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial animation advert | Chicago American | February 21, 1916 | |||||
| Wall 3 Left | |||||||
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Autumn Winds |
J. Rogers | San Francisco Call | October 24, 1909 | ||||
| Pan awakes | Herbert Stoops | San Francisco Call | March 26, 1911 | ||||
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At the theaters |
Nell Brinkley | Chicago Examiner | January 24, 1909 | ||||
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How civilization has made women unhappy |
H.B. Eddy | San Francisco Call | February 29, 1909 | ||||
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“I can handle both” says the lady |
Charles W. Rohrhand | San Francisco Call | July 4, 1909 | ||||
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Dolly dip “A touch of tango makes the whole world spin” |
Herman Hirschauer | Chicago Sunday Herald | January 7, 1915 | ||||
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Who’s the biggest grouch? Speak up! |
Packer | San Francisco Call | April 21, 1912 | ||||
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Bugs! Boiled, broiled and fried for the epicure |
Thomson | San Francisco Call | March 10, 1907 | ||||
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Are married people happy |
William Rogers | San Francisco Call | July 24, 1910 | ||||
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Are American men ashamed to be graceful? |
Ben Kutcher | Chicago Sunday Herald | November 5, 1916 | ||||
| Case: The More Things Change, the More they Stay the Same | |||||||
| Tell it to Elsie | Elsie Robinson | San Francisco Call and Post undated Saturday 1926 | Undated Saturday 1926 | ||||
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Making Chicago ‘fluless |
Ray Schuman | Chicago Examiner | October 6, 1918 | ||||
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How science explains the gradual sinking of New York |
Louis Biederman | San Francisco Call and Post | Undated Saturday 1928 | ||||
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The gentle art of armless cartooning |
Alexander Hardie | Chicago Record Herald | May 8, 1910 | ||||
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Are you a loneite? |
Borough | San Francisco Call | June 28, 1908 | ||||
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Physical culture in nature’s gym |
San Francisco Call | September 20, 1903 | |||||
| Wall 3 Right | |||||||
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Hungry Hooligan the very up-to-datest game |
Chicago American Cut-out supplement | Undated c. March-June 1902 | |||||
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Snip-Snap! The very latest up-to-dateist game |
San Francisco Examiner | July 20, 1902 | |||||
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The magic rainbowgraph! |
Chicago American Children’s Wonderland supplement | June 8, 1902 | |||||
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Be a bear! (Bear mask) |
Chicago American Cut-out supplement | July 10, 1904 | |||||
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The funniest game ever “Are my ears on straight?” |
Chicago American Cut-out supplement | March 30, 1902 | |||||
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The giant’s quick lunch (The book of magic) |
Edwin G. Lutz | Seattle Post Intelligencer | February 19, 1922 | ||||
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The magic movie wheel (The book of magic) |
Edwin G. Lutz | Seattle Post Intelligencer | February 12, 1922 | ||||
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The magic fence |
Boston American | May 14, 1905 | |||||
| Wall 4 | |||||||
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The Gumps |
Sidney Smith | Chciago Sunday Tribune | February 7, 1925 | ||||
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The Turr’ble Tales of Kaptin Kiddo |
Grace G. Wiederseim (Drayton) and Margaret G. Hays | Sunday News Bute Montana | c. 1909-1911 | ||||
| Rosalie Goes Rural | John Held Jr. | The San Francisco Call | July 13, 1929 | ||||
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Little Nemo in Slumberland |
Winsor McCay | Los Angeles Sunday Times | December 5, 1909 | ||||
| The American Sky-Scraper is a Modern Tower of Babel | Dan McCarthy | The World | February 20, 1898 | ||||
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Crazy Quilt |
Gene Ahearn | Chicago Sunday Tribune | May 17, 1914 | ||||
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Old Opie Dilldock’s Stories |
F.M. Howarth | Chicago Sunday Tribune | September 6, 1908 | ||||
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The Kewpies and Brother Dan |
Rose O’Neil | San Francisco Sunday Chronicle | June 23, 1918 | ||||
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Polly and Her Pals |
Cliff Sterrett | Los Angeles Evening Herald | March 26, 1927 | ||||
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The Chubbies and IF |
De Voss Woodward Driscoll | St Louis Globe-Democrat | January 29, 1905 | ||||
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Naughty Pete |
Charles Forbell | The Sunday Record-Herald | August 17, 1913 | ||||
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Der Kidders Under Der Colonel |
De Voss Woodward Driscoll | St Louis Globe-Democrat | October 2, 1904 | ||||
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Foiled! ?’s Death! An Up-To-Date Story |
Hy Mayer | New York Herald | June 29, 1902 | ||||
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Napoleon |
Clifford McBride | Oakland Tribune | April 15, 1934 | ||||
| The Claim-Everything Mania — Most People Have It | A.N. Boyd | The World | May 1, 1898 | ||||
| The Explorigator | Harry Grant Dart | The World | July 5, 1908 | ||||
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Mr. Twee Deedle |
Johnny Gruelle | New York Herald | June 18, 1911 | ||||
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Wee Willie Winkie’s World |
Lyonel Feininger | The Chicago Sunday Tribune | September 16, 1906 | ||||
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The Day Dream of Danny Dawes |
James Swinnerton | San Francisco Call | June 28, 1924 | ||||
| Alley Oop | V.T. Hamlin | November 10, 1935 | |||||
| Adventures of Toby Maltese | Louis Wain | Indianapolis | 1914 | ||||
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Thimble Theater |
Elzie Segar | America’s Greatest | October 11, 1936 | ||||
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The Adventures of Prudence Prim |
Nell Brinkley | San Francisco Examiner | January 31, 1926 | ||||
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Buck Rogers |
Dick Calkins | Los Angeles Times | January 12, 1936 | ||||
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Madge The Magician’s Daughter |
W.O. Wilson | The San Francisco Call | July 7, 1907 | ||||
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Gasoline Alley |
Frank King |
Chicago Tribune |
November 4, 1928 | ||||
| The Rising Generation | Walter McDougall | The World | December 22, 1895 | ||||
| Case: Curiosities and Discoveries | |||||||
| Lucy and Sophie Say Goodbye; It was Lots of Fun — For the Goats | Unknown; George Frink | The Chicago Tribune | July 9, 1905 |
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Deep Sea Banquet in Animal Land; Hugo Hercules To The Rescue Once More |
Walter Bradford; Wilhelm Heinrich Detlev Körner | The Chicago Tribune | September 21, 1902 |
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Animaldom |
Joseph Jacinto Mora |
The Saint Louis Daily Globe Democrat |
August 11, 1907 |
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Little Denny Mud: He Owns a Camera; The Bird Boys and Their Airship, The Flying Fish |
C.A. Beaty; Unknown | The Chicago Tribune | March 6, 1910 |
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The Brownies in the Phillipines; Small Potatoes |
Palmer Cox; Mary G. Jones | The New York Herald | August 2, 1903 |
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The Wigglemuch; Johnny Quack and the Van Cluck Twins |
Herbert Crowley; Charles H. Twelvetrees | The New York Herald | April 3, 1910 |
| Case: Books | |||
| Bound Volume | Chicago Tribune | 1914 | |
| The Goat Getters | Eddie Campbell | 2018 | |
| How the Other Half Laughs | Jean Lee Cole | 2020 | |
| The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics | Ed. Bill Blackbeard and Martin Williams | 1977 | |
| Library of American Comics Essentials: The Gumps | Sidney Smith | 2014 | |
| Sherlock Holmes in America | Bill Blackbeard | 1981 | |