This blog post examines the history of Marvel comic book characters Agatha Harkness and Wanda Maximoff and their relationship to the witches’ road featuring titles from the comic book collection at the Library of Congress
Read More
The end of August is near and you know what that means…back to school time! Let’s close out summer with comic book stories, from the Simpsons to Superman and more!
Read More
Reimagining Vincent van Gogh’s “Bedroom in Arles” through the lens of Pop Art transforms the iconic scene into a vibrant, energetic tableau. The bedroom’s familiar elements—the bed, chairs, table, and wall decorations—are rendered in bold, flat planes of color that pop with intensity.
Read More
Anglo-American writer Christopher Isherwood lived in Berlin from 1929 to 1932 and observed first-hand the rise of the Nazis and the damage and terror inflicted on the famously tolerant city and its inhabitants. He drew from his journals that he kept from those years to write “Mr. Norris Changes Trains” (1935) and “Goodbye to Berlin” (1939), which would later be combined into an omnibus volume entitled “The Berlin Stories” (1945). Playful and powerful, Isherwood’s depiction of Berlin captured the imagination of later artists, whose work is also represented in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
Read More
Pop Art, Bedroom in Arles, van Gogh, comic book, AIPrompt = In the Style of Pop Art – reimagine Bedroom in Arles’ – By Vincent van Gogh — using vibrant Color
Read More
One of the Library’s many outstanding comic book holdings is the 24 original drawings by Steve Ditko for Amazing Fantasy No. 15 in August 1962, including the Spider-Man origin story. The iconic images were donated to the Library by an anonymous donor in 2008. They are included in the opening exhibit of the David M. Rubenstein Treasures Gallery.
Read More
Staff of the Manuscript and Serial & Government Publications divisions will hold a roundtable discussion with three comic studies scholars who will make brief presentations on current research, and discuss psychiatrist Fredric Wertham’s anti-comics legacy.
Read More