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Modern Graphic History Library to launch in St. Louis
St. Louis cartoonist/teacher DB Dowd has a blog post about Washington University’s new Modern Graphic History Library. The library is being launched through a series of events November 16th and 17th.
The library’s mission statement:
The Modern Graphic History Library acquires and preserves distinguished works of modern illustration and pictorial graphic culture to promote sustained academic consideration of those materials. The collection includes artists’ working materials, sketches and finished artworks—from book, magazine, and advertising illustration to graphic novels, comics, poster design, pictorial information design, and animation.
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