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Parade of the Award Nominees
How Mickey Mouse Has Changed Over the Decades
With Mickey Mouse's birthday being celebrated on November 18, we look back across the decades to see how his look has changed with the times.
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The Art of the Political Cartoon: A Vital, Vanishing Form
Even as traditional outlets for it shrink, socially conscious art and the desire to make it remain as strong as ever.
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Self-Confessed! The inappropriately intimate comics of Alison Bechdel
Before she was a renowned graphic memoirist and winner of a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, Alison Bechdel was an archivist of the self. She plundered the flotsam and jetsam of her childhood to…
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Library to Open "Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists"

WASHINGTON, DC -  Original works by women cartoonists and illustrators are featured in a new exhibition opening at the Library of Congress on Nov. 18. Spanning the late 1800s to the present…