Benjamin L. Clark
@benjaminlclark.com
Eisner-winning comic museum curator and book writer. PERSONAL acc’t. Big fan of Snoopy and the gang. AKA BenjClark, BLClark
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Nebraska/ Santa Rosa, CA
https://benjaminlclark.com
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Nebraska/ Santa Rosa, CA
https://benjaminlclark.com
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Benjamin L. Clark
@benjaminlclark.com
· Oct 18
Hey, new folks! INTRO — I'm Benjamin. I write comic history, curate museum exhibitions, and other stuff. I've won some awards, and I'm open to other projects when I'm available. Find me other places:
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A brand new Sunday funny! Dog’s best friend.
November 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
A brand new Sunday funny! Dog’s best friend.
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There is something genuinely comforting in the fact that 75 years after a shy, depressive Midwesterner started drawing simple comic strips that within a commercial format expressed his distinct experience of the world, a museum dedicated to that work draws a large, joyful international crowd.
November 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
There is something genuinely comforting in the fact that 75 years after a shy, depressive Midwesterner started drawing simple comic strips that within a commercial format expressed his distinct experience of the world, a museum dedicated to that work draws a large, joyful international crowd.
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My friend @benjaminlclark.com in his gift-giving guide: “Glenn was perfectly positioned not only to make sense of [the creation and prodcution of newspaper comics] but also to gather these disparate elements to tell the story.” benjaminlclark.com/from-panels-...
From Panels to Presents: The Comics History Book Gift Guide
The 2025 edition of my gift guide. As gift-giving season approaches, I’m starting to be pestered by my loved ones about my Christmas wish list. My list is pretty much the same every year: boo…
benjaminlclark.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
My friend @benjaminlclark.com in his gift-giving guide: “Glenn was perfectly positioned not only to make sense of [the creation and prodcution of newspaper comics] but also to gather these disparate elements to tell the story.” benjaminlclark.com/from-panels-...
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A student at the University of Leuven was bored in 1613 and decided to draw a weird figure. Photo shared by Zanna van Loon (Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp)
November 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
A student at the University of Leuven was bored in 1613 and decided to draw a weird figure. Photo shared by Zanna van Loon (Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp)
SONY — Spider-Verse just got a little bigger
im on long island and this is the most long island thing ive ever seen. and i kind of want one
November 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
SONY — Spider-Verse just got a little bigger
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Did someone say PIE?? @carnivalofglee.bsky.social
📷Comic by Thad Hackett in Hygeia 9/1934: Vol 12 Iss 9, pg. 824.
📷Comic by Thad Hackett in Hygeia 9/1934: Vol 12 Iss 9, pg. 824.
November 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Did someone say PIE?? @carnivalofglee.bsky.social
📷Comic by Thad Hackett in Hygeia 9/1934: Vol 12 Iss 9, pg. 824.
📷Comic by Thad Hackett in Hygeia 9/1934: Vol 12 Iss 9, pg. 824.
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Pie.
Let’s all go around the table and say one word we’re thankful for.
November 28, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Pie.
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It's time for the 2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant!
My family and I are awarding four $250 grants to active comics critics. The application is simple, just your name, email, and two recent clips. Deadline for submissions is January 1st.
forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...
My family and I are awarding four $250 grants to active comics critics. The application is simple, just your name, email, and two recent clips. Deadline for submissions is January 1st.
forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...
2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant
This project will be awarding four mini grants of $250 to comics critics.
To apply, please provide 2 links to comics criticism work of at least 500 words published within the last year (blogs and YouT...
forms.gle
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
It's time for the 2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant!
My family and I are awarding four $250 grants to active comics critics. The application is simple, just your name, email, and two recent clips. Deadline for submissions is January 1st.
forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...
My family and I are awarding four $250 grants to active comics critics. The application is simple, just your name, email, and two recent clips. Deadline for submissions is January 1st.
forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...
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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
Hope you all get to enjoy a nice dinner of popcorn, jelly beans, pretzels, and toast.
Hope you all get to enjoy a nice dinner of popcorn, jelly beans, pretzels, and toast.
November 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
Hope you all get to enjoy a nice dinner of popcorn, jelly beans, pretzels, and toast.
Hope you all get to enjoy a nice dinner of popcorn, jelly beans, pretzels, and toast.
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For Charles Schulz’s birthday,
Twiggy by Bert Stern
Vogue, November 1967
Twiggy by Bert Stern
Vogue, November 1967
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
For Charles Schulz’s birthday,
Twiggy by Bert Stern
Vogue, November 1967
Twiggy by Bert Stern
Vogue, November 1967
I love the detail of Snoopy's film camera marked LMFP/ Burlingame, which is of course for Lee Mendelson Film Productions which was in Burlingame, California. Lee was undoubtedly the one to secure "Charlie Brown Day" at Candlestick.
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I love the detail of Snoopy's film camera marked LMFP/ Burlingame, which is of course for Lee Mendelson Film Productions which was in Burlingame, California. Lee was undoubtedly the one to secure "Charlie Brown Day" at Candlestick.
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Amazing how relevant Charles Schulz is in today's world.
November 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Amazing how relevant Charles Schulz is in today's world.
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This is one of Charles Schulz’s greatest strips, from April 17, 1960. He has plenty of room to tell his story, & creates a perfectly modulated narrative, with a wonderful coda.
November 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This is one of Charles Schulz’s greatest strips, from April 17, 1960. He has plenty of room to tell his story, & creates a perfectly modulated narrative, with a wonderful coda.
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Charles Schulz's own shyness was an important part of Peanuts. Joe Moran is very good about Sparky's path in Shrinking Violets:
"Schulz knew that shyness has no narrative arc: the shy have to carry on being shy. A daily comic strip was his way of carrying on."
@joemoransblog.bsky.social
"Schulz knew that shyness has no narrative arc: the shy have to carry on being shy. A daily comic strip was his way of carrying on."
@joemoransblog.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Charles Schulz's own shyness was an important part of Peanuts. Joe Moran is very good about Sparky's path in Shrinking Violets:
"Schulz knew that shyness has no narrative arc: the shy have to carry on being shy. A daily comic strip was his way of carrying on."
@joemoransblog.bsky.social
"Schulz knew that shyness has no narrative arc: the shy have to carry on being shy. A daily comic strip was his way of carrying on."
@joemoransblog.bsky.social
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“If I were to be given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.”
– Charles M. Schulz, #botd in 1922 #GoodGriefDay
– Charles M. Schulz, #botd in 1922 #GoodGriefDay
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“If I were to be given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.”
– Charles M. Schulz, #botd in 1922 #GoodGriefDay
– Charles M. Schulz, #botd in 1922 #GoodGriefDay
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A Charles Schulz cover: San Francisco Magazine, April 1964.
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A Charles Schulz cover: San Francisco Magazine, April 1964.
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Happy Birthday to Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist, and creator of the long-running comic strip "Peanuts." Thank you, Sparky, for such classic characters as Charlie Brown and Snoopy! #CharlesMSchulz #Peanuts #CharlieBrown #💙📚 #Booksky
November 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Happy Birthday to Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist, and creator of the long-running comic strip "Peanuts." Thank you, Sparky, for such classic characters as Charlie Brown and Snoopy! #CharlesMSchulz #Peanuts #CharlieBrown #💙📚 #Booksky
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Growing up, I had the Sunday color version of this on my bedroom door for years. I was (and remain) astonished that Schulz had the guts to finally land a years-long running gag.
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Growing up, I had the Sunday color version of this on my bedroom door for years. I was (and remain) astonished that Schulz had the guts to finally land a years-long running gag.
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In 1970 5th-grade students at Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills were assigned to write a letter to someone they admired, asking them “What makes a good citizen?"
So 10yr old Joel Lipton wrote to Peanuts cartoonist CHARLES M. SCHULZ - born 103yrs ago today.
Joel got a reply.
So 10yr old Joel Lipton wrote to Peanuts cartoonist CHARLES M. SCHULZ - born 103yrs ago today.
Joel got a reply.
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
In 1970 5th-grade students at Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills were assigned to write a letter to someone they admired, asking them “What makes a good citizen?"
So 10yr old Joel Lipton wrote to Peanuts cartoonist CHARLES M. SCHULZ - born 103yrs ago today.
Joel got a reply.
So 10yr old Joel Lipton wrote to Peanuts cartoonist CHARLES M. SCHULZ - born 103yrs ago today.
Joel got a reply.
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From his earliest memories, Schulz said he wanted to be a professional cartoonist. He got that chance with the debut of Peanuts in 1950, and today, it remains one of the most popular comic strips in the world. Schulz’s legacy lives on through his fans and the universal love of Peanuts. 💛
November 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
From his earliest memories, Schulz said he wanted to be a professional cartoonist. He got that chance with the debut of Peanuts in 1950, and today, it remains one of the most popular comic strips in the world. Schulz’s legacy lives on through his fans and the universal love of Peanuts. 💛
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maybe it’s cliche and maybe it’s corny but Charles Schulz’ Peanuts is basically the best comic
November 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
maybe it’s cliche and maybe it’s corny but Charles Schulz’ Peanuts is basically the best comic
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November 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM