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Jenny Robb

@jennyrobb.bsky.social

Head Curator of Comics and Cartoon Art at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.

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EveryLibrary@everylibrary.bsky.social · last yr.

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

SEND AN EMAIL: Stop Trump's E.O. Attacking Federal Funding for Libraries

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

Jenny Robb@jennyrobb.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

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Jenny Robb@jennyrobb.bsky.social · 2y ago

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.

Political cartoon depicting two people in white hoods and robes labeled “KKK” standing on either side of a tree labeled “American Liberty” on its trunk. The two people are chopping into the trunk with axes. Branches of the tree are labeled “The Ballot,” “Free Speech,” “Free Press,” “The Constitution,” “Law and Order,” and “Religious Freedom.”
Jenny Robb@jennyrobb.bsky.social · 2y ago

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...

Library Borrowing - Special Collections

btaa.org

Nancy Anne is tired, but committing the sin of empathy@bohemianbloom.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hello my fellow Americans! Your friendly neighborhood library lady here with a PSA. Do you know about Interlibrary Loan? It allows you to order books/scholarly articles from ANY LIBRARY IN THE COUNTRY for FREE or cheap. It is the bee’s knees! Ask your library about it today!

A long row of stacks in an academic library, books and bound periodicals on the shelves.
Jenny Robb@jennyrobb.bsky.social · 2y ago

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.

Pencil drawing of the first panel of the story “The Ghost Bear” featuring a horse rearing up against a snarling bear.
Ben Towle@benzilla.bsky.social · 2y ago

At the opening tour of the new exhibit at the Billy Ireland. Amazing stuff! Golden age cosplay costumes One of 5 known existing Jack Cole Plastic Man originals (4 are here) An insane Reed Crandall splash panel A Toth Green Lantern page

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Jenny Robb@jennyrobb.bsky.social · 2y ago

Golden Age comic book fans - Make a plan to visit Columbus for The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum exhibit, “The Lone Crusader: Larry Ivie and Fandom in the Golden Age of Comics.” Original art by Shuster, Cole, Williamson, Crandall, Krenkel, Frazetta and more!

Original Superman comic art by Joe Shuster from 1940. Original Simon/Kirby art of Captain America splash page featuring Ivan the Terrible. Original Doll Man comic book art.Cover of Vault of Horror comic book with original sketch by Johnny Craig.
Jenny Robb@jennyrobb.bsky.social · 2y ago

First post on Bluesky! Sneak peek at original art featured in “The Lone Crusader: Larry Ivie and Fandom in the Golden Age of Comics,” a new exhibit opening Nov 20 at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum! Can you identify the comic books (title and issue) these panels appeared in?

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