In 1967, Blackbeard set out to write a scholarly history of newspaper comics but was sidetracked by a reality that did not amuse him. "It's not an understatement to say that the entire movement of looking at comics as American history and culture would be fundamentally different without Bill and his contributions," said Andrew Farago of the Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco. His March 10 death, confirmed by Social Security records became public only in late April when news of it circulated on websites devoted to comics. He was 84.īlackbeard died at a Country Villa nursing home in Watsonville, Calif. "Bill Blackbeard, scholar of newspaper comics, dies at 84"īill Blackbeard, who grew up in Newport Beach, created an exhaustive archive of newspaper comics, preserving an American art form and helping to legitimize the study of comics in popular culture.īill Blackbeard, an early scholar of newspaper comics who created an indispensable archive in San Francisco that helped legitimize the study of comics in popular culture, has died.
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