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Benjamin L. Clark
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Eisner-winning comic museum curator and book writer. PERSONAL acc’t. Big fan of Snoopy and the gang. AKA BenjClark, BLClark

📷 by Chris Eliopoulous @chriseliopoulos.com

Nebraska/ Santa Rosa, CA
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Frederick Opper comic from 1884: "The only way to prove that you have been clubbed by a policeman — photograph him in the act."

📖: Puck, December 31, 1884: Vol 16 Iss 408
🖥️: archive.org/details/sim_...
A cartoon drawn by Frederick Opper showing a policeman with a billy club beating another man as the man cowers and holds a camera. The caption below the image reads: "The only way to prove that you have been clubbed by a policeman—photograph him in the act." The joke here is that eyewitness and physical evidence was not enough, but a photograph might be believed, though this was technically quite difficult to do.
November 14, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Comics! The brand new field that holds so much promise!

📖: How to draw; a practical book of instruction in the art of illustration by Leon Barritt, 1904
A bit of text with the first sentence highlighted in yellow. "One of the most promising fields for the young art student of today is that of "comics.""
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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A couple of cool vintage Tintin things spotted at our local used bookshop, Treehorn Books in downtown Santa Rosa.
A smallish cardboard Tintin cutout stands behind old books on a shelf in a window display. The Window display also includes a mannequin wearing a bookshop t-shirt (almost entirely unseen) and a fez, adding an air of mystery and adventure to seeing Tintin. A round spinner rack of sorts with The Adventures of Tinin branding on it. It has three tiers, with some large-format paperback books in the spiral plastic racks in the display.
November 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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{{{{SANDWICH}}}}

🖌️Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts, originally published December 19, 1977 - detail of original art.
Detail of original art. Snoopy sits atop his doghouse, looking at a huge sub sandwich that he holds.
November 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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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.
A magazine single panel cartoon of a woman on a sofa dreaming of a huge slice of pie.
November 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Happy Godzilla Day!

📷Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, originally published 1/26/1958.
In a Peanuts Sunday comic strip, Lucy is building little bunnies in the snow. Linus wants to join her, but she yells at him to go away and build his own thing. He's mad and builds a huge dinosaur/ Godzilla monster to terrorize her bunnies. This strip was originally published on January 26, 1958.
November 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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📷Detail of original art, Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, originally published 10/27/1961.
Charlie Brown and Linus sit in the pumpkin patch. Charlie Brown has a neutral expression. Linus leans on a big pumpkin and looks hopeful.
October 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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I wonder if Peanuts is a bit to blame for the phrase "four panel" as it *was* restricted to four panel dailies from 10/2/1950-2/29/1988 (37 years+), aside from a handful of creative manipulations by Schulz, like the "Eight panel" daily where he just subdivides his four standard panels in half.
Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, originally published 10/22/1953. Linus, a toddler, stands on a single step, looking down. He falls off the strep with a "WHAM!" He stands and looks back at the step, and falls onto the step, with a "WHAM!" He repeats this and eventually sits on the step with a *SIGH*.
October 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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@harrybliss.bsky.social with another great Peanuts themed comic yesterday. Is it a super deep cut since Charlie Brown was the first to mention Beethoven in Peanuts?
October 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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SOON

📷Detail, original art for Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, published October 30, 1968.
October 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Black Cat Day?? Oh, someone will not be happy to hear this!
Snoopy and Woodstock read atop Snoopy's doghouse, "The Black Cat". A candle burns at left. A large sound effect graphic is over the top, MEOW. Snoopy and Woodstock look frightened.
October 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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My favorite old-timey newspaper title in the recently added batch of newspapers to newspapers.com is ... [drumroll please] ... The Mill-Boy of the Slashes! It's brought to us by the good people of Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1844.

www.newspapers.com/paper/the-mi...
Masthead of a newspaper published in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1844 called The Mill-Boy of the Slashes.
October 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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I’m very committed to the idea of a stamp commemorating the bowl full of mush.
October 27, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Some amazing mushrooms we saw this afternoon.
Mushrooms on a log
October 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Live from my 10 y/o’s room. He probably has at least 10 Garfield collections.
October 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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"Just what I've always wanted ... A roomful of lemon drops!"

📷Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, originally published on Sunday, April 30, 1967. Detail of original art.
Linus in a Peanuts comic strip, originally published on Sunday, April 30, 1967, lies buffuddled and bashed amid a lot of little round things on the floor around him and says, "Just what I've always wanted ... A roomful of lemon drops!"
October 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Yours drops the throwaway panel to reconfigure the strip into tabloid format. This panel happens to be the throwaway that day.
October 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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📷Detail of Pepito reading in a pile of books, from the comic strip Gordo by Gus Arriola, originally published September 15, 1957
Pepito reading in a pile of books, from the comic strip Gordo by Gus Arriola, originally published September 15, 1957
October 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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I’m at my neighborhood taproom while my kid is at Muay Thai next door brainstorming some blog post ideas to drum up more support for the Comics Courier issue 3 📰. My contribution is about the Moomin comic strip. The suggestion box is open:
October 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Too bad he didn't have Linus and Sally to talk to.
Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, 4/19/1994 Panel 1 - Sally says to Linus as they stand in the rain waiting for their school bus, "Yesterday I stood here in the rain for ten minutes waiting for the school bus." Panel 2 - She continues, "After I got to school, you know what I learned? I learned how wide the Mississippi River is." Panel 3 - "I stood in the rain for ten minutes to learn how wide the Mississippi River is!" Panel 4 - Linus asks her, "How wide is the Mississippi River?" Sally replies, "I forgot"
October 17, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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work work work work work
In a detail from the Peanuts comic strip published on January 30, 2000, Rerun Van Pelt is working on a drawing, with crayons nearby, hand held high saying, "More action! More color!"
October 15, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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A couple of cool panels from Garfield in the Sunday funnies today.
Garfield in silhouette kicks Odie off the table. In the panel below the word Snap is drawn to fill the panel.
October 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Happy 60th Anniversary, Flying Ace!

Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, originally published October 10, 1965
October 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Great stuff, Luke! I'm more of a "Power of Positive Fussing" man myself ...
Peanuts comic strip originally published on 7/30/1956. Charlie Brown asks Lucy how she came to be such a fussbudget. She shows him her huge overflowing bookcase filled with Fussbudget titles.
October 2, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Happy 75th Anniversary of Peanuts!
October 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM