During his lifetime, Bill Blackbeard collected and preserved 2.5 million artifacts of comic strips dating back to 1893; highlights are featured in the exhibit "Man Saves Comics," at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum in Columbus, Ohio.
During his lifetime, Bill Blackbeard collected and preserved 2.5 million artifacts of comic strips dating back to 1893; highlights are featured in the exhibit “Man Saves Comics,” at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum in Columbus, Ohio. Source
Curator Caitlin McGurk and correspondent Luke Burbank observe the exhibit "Man Saves Comics!" at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum in Columbus, Ohio. CBS News One person's trash is another person's treasure. And for the late Bill Blackbeard, the treasure that he'd stored from floor to ceiling in his San Francisco home was maybe…
Bill Blackbeard was something of a superhero. During his lifetime, he collected and preserved 2.5 million ephemeral artifacts of comic strip art, including newspapers and Sunday color sections dating as far back as 1893. Treasures from his collection are now featured in a new exhibit, “Man Saves Comics,” at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & .