Announcing the Barbara Slate Archive
The Dowd Illustration Research Archive has acquired the archive of Barbara Slate, a renowned comic artist, teacher, and writer. On...
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Registration Open for Illustration Research Symposium
Blind Spots: 13th Annual Illustration Research Symposium will be held at Washington University in St. Louis, November 2–4, 2023. Conference... -
Dowd Modern Graphic History Library Becomes Dowd Illustration Research Archive
Washington University Libraries changed the name of the D.B. Dowd Modern Graphic History Library to Dowd Illustration Research Archive. Named... -
Don’t Call Her Shirley: My Month in WashU’s Digitization Unit
In a basement on West Campus, a mile away from Washington University’s Danforth idyll, sits The Shirley. The beating heart... -
Digitizing the Tear Sheets in the Walt Reed Illustration Archive
Revealing Visual Culture was a grant-funded project awarded by the Council on Library & Information Resources (CLIR) foundation. The multi-year... -
Why Do Comics Get Banned?
Comic books have sparked controversy and prompted censorship for almost as long as they have existed. The most consequential case... -
Comics by the Thousands: Enhancing the Center for the Humanities Comics Collection
Ten years ago, the Center for the Humanities transferred ownership of some of its materials to the Julian Edison Department of Special Collections. A portion... -
Digitizing Rare Collections with the Shirley
It’s Preservation Week! The Preservation and Digitization unit wanted to take this opportunity to announce an expansion of in-house digitization... -
Preview of the Charles Johnson Papers
We are thrilled to be adding the Charles Johnson Papers to the Julian Edison Department of Special Collections and to... -
Spencer Thornton Banks and the Pokenia Comic Strip Collection
Spencer Thornton Banks was a Black commercial artist. He was born on June 5, 1912, in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and moved... -
Filling in the Gaps: The John Held Jr. Collection
The D.B. Dowd Modern Graphic History Library (DMGHL) recently acquired the John Held Jr. Collection, an archive of material belonging... -
Dowd Modern Graphic History Library Acquires the Craig Yoe Teaching Collection
The Craig Yoe Teaching Collection was delivered to the DMGHL in the fall of 2020, adding historical content for comics...