We need your help TODAY to tell your governors and key members of the House and Senate that federal funding for libraries - the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) - needs to be preserved!
action.everylibrary.org/emaileo2025
Library lovers, we need your help. A recent executive order calls for the elimination of IMLS, the only federal agency that funds libraries nationwide. Without IMLS, many of the resources and programs we love could be at risk.
📚 Learn what you can do to help: ilovelibraries.org/article/trum...
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Columbus folks! Join us today for our celebration of Ed Koren and the New Yorker featuring the very funny and talented Emily Flake! If driving, tell the parking attendant at the Union North Garage that you are coming to The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum to get 1/2 price on event parking.
Here is an example - All-Star Comics 6 & 8: library.ohio-state.edu/record=b2179...
Did you know that some of Eldon Dedini’s Golden Age Comic Books were donated to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, along with his artwork and papers? I packed the collection with his son. There were some Golden Age comics there with his brother’s name on the cover as well.
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
February 13,1971
Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz originally published on December 7, 1989
"Now, more than ever, ALA has our backs. And we have theirs."
Join legendary comics creators Raina Telgemeier & Scott McCloud —become a Supporter of the American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries
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😠 I thought we were past this type of prejudice against comics.
Keep the Faith! Here's Keith Knight's tribute to Morrie Turner. Celebrate Black History all year long.
There’s still time to see the Calvin and Hobbes exhibit at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene, OR! Open through February 2.
Congrats to The Ohio State Buckeyes on winning the National Championship! Did you know the Buckeye leaf on the football players’ helmets was designed by our founder, cartoonist Milton Caniff, who graduated from OSU in 1930? See more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1ACD...
A 1923 cartoon by Winsor McCay that turned up yesterday in the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection. Thanks to the many generous donors who gave to our crowdfunding campaign, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum continues to organize, rehouse and catalog the massive collection.
And do you know that Special Collections (like the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum) at the Big Ten Academic Alliance universities can send materials to each other for use by patrons? btaa.org/library/prog...
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Check out these gorgeous preliminary pencils by Roy Krenkel for “The Ghost Bear.” Prize Comics Western, 1955. On view now at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.
Such a heartbreaking cartoon though.
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