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Benjamin L. Clark
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Eisner-winning comic museum curator and book writer. PERSONAL acc’t. Big fan of Snoopy and the gang. AKA BenjClark, BLClark

📷 by Chris Eliopoulous @chriseliopoulos.com

Nebraska/ Santa Rosa, CA
https://benjaminlclark.com
This is the strip he's drawing, Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, originally published November 12, 1969.
November 27, 2025 at 7:48 AM
A new entry in my occasional series about all the little bookshops I can remember.

benjaminlclark.com/bookshop-mem...
November 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Our local newspaper reformatted the Sunday comics again and now they’re printed within another section. It’s weird. At least we still have a print edition.
November 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I love these old strips when Hagar is more Viking-y/ fantasy than domestic-y.

✒️By Dik Browne, originally published 2/27/1978
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Someone transcribed this Danish comic title as "Pelle og Lisa," which means "Pelle and Lisa," but looking at that middle word on the scan, it doesn't really look like "og" to me. It almost looks like "soh" to me, which means "Pelle saw Lisa" ... any Danish speakers care to educate me?
November 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Lol
November 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Frederick Opper comic from 1884: "The only way to prove that you have been clubbed by a policeman — photograph him in the act."

📖: Puck, December 31, 1884: Vol 16 Iss 408
🖥️: archive.org/details/sim_...
November 14, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Comics! The brand new field that holds so much promise!

📖: How to draw; a practical book of instruction in the art of illustration by Leon Barritt, 1904
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
A couple of cool vintage Tintin things spotted at our local used bookshop, Treehorn Books in downtown Santa Rosa.
November 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
{{{{SANDWICH}}}}

🖌️Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts, originally published December 19, 1977 - detail of original art.
November 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Did someone say PIE?? @carnivalofglee.bsky.social

📷Comic by Thad Hackett in Hygeia 9/1934: Vol 12 Iss 9, pg. 824.
November 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Happy Godzilla Day!

📷Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, originally published 1/26/1958.
November 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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📷Detail of original art, Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, originally published 10/27/1961.
October 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I wonder if Peanuts is a bit to blame for the phrase "four panel" as it *was* restricted to four panel dailies from 10/2/1950-2/29/1988 (37 years+), aside from a handful of creative manipulations by Schulz, like the "Eight panel" daily where he just subdivides his four standard panels in half.
October 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
@harrybliss.bsky.social with another great Peanuts themed comic yesterday. Is it a super deep cut since Charlie Brown was the first to mention Beethoven in Peanuts?
October 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
SOON

📷Detail, original art for Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, published October 30, 1968.
October 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Black Cat Day?? Oh, someone will not be happy to hear this!
October 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM
My favorite old-timey newspaper title in the recently added batch of newspapers to newspapers.com is ... [drumroll please] ... The Mill-Boy of the Slashes! It's brought to us by the good people of Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1844.

www.newspapers.com/paper/the-mi...
October 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I’m very committed to the idea of a stamp commemorating the bowl full of mush.
October 27, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Some amazing mushrooms we saw this afternoon.
October 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Live from my 10 y/o’s room. He probably has at least 10 Garfield collections.
October 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
"Just what I've always wanted ... A roomful of lemon drops!"

📷Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, originally published on Sunday, April 30, 1967. Detail of original art.
October 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Yours drops the throwaway panel to reconfigure the strip into tabloid format. This panel happens to be the throwaway that day.
October 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
work work work work work work work work work work

📷Detail of Pepito reading in a pile of books, from the comic strip Gordo by Gus Arriola, originally published September 15, 1957
October 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM