Material is unprocessed. Please contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
This collection is located on-site.
The first phase of the Bissette donation consists of 24 leaves from a 1902 print collection of R.F. Outcault's "Pore Lil' Mose" Sunday comic (1901), plus one leaf from a 1904 edition. This strip details the letters home of a young African-American boy on a trip to New York City, and features racial stereotypes and dialect.
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Material is unprocessed. Please contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
This collection is located on-site.
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Curator of Manuscripts/University Archivist, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML). The RBML approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Stephen Bissette Collection; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Additions are expected
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Gift of Stephen Bissette, 2020.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Stephen Bissette is an artist, editor, educator, and more. Making his name as the artist on Alan Moore's SWAMP THING, he went on to be a noted horror comics artist, an editor at Kevin Eastman's Tundra publishing house, and a long-time instructor at the Center for Cartoon Studies. The collection includes a wealth of material from Bissette's days at Tundra, including his work on the indie comics anthology TABOO and roughs of Scott McCloud's UNDERSTANDING COMICS.