Benjamin L Clark

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Comic museum curator, book writer, your favorite podcast guest. PERSONAL ACCOUNT opinions mine (duh) (he/him/hey you) #comics #comicstrips #comichistory Twitter: @BLClark Instagram: @benjaminlclark
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Personal Websitehttps://benjaminlclark.com
Buy My New Bookhttps://charles-m-schulz-museum.myshopify.com/products/charles-m-schulz-the-life-and-art-of-the-creator-of-peanuts-in-100-objects
Google is great for currency conversion but it really falls down if you want to know how much something cost in beaver pelts in 1748. Fortunately, help is available. https://raunerlibrary.blogspot.com/2024/03/how-much-is-that-in-beavers.html
How much is that in Beavers?

While prepping for a class this Winter, we stumbled on an amazing 18th-century chart of prices. It has the typical merchandise you would exp...

Now over 70% funded with just under eight days to go! I have so much to share that you’ll love if you love comics and/or history… https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/how-comics-were-made
https://twit.social/@glennf/112004543167309282
You can also watch a replay of interview last week with @benjclark, the person with the best job in the world as curator of the Charles M Schulz Museum. We spoke about storytelling with objects and the interesting nature of curating one person’s artistic career. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvUpHPk1ZS8
Benjamin Clark: curator, Charles M Schulz Museum, live interview (How Comics Were Made)

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Shoutout to everyone who just says their name to me at a party even if we’ve met a dozen times before because otherwise I have to pretend that I can recognize you for as long as it takes for me to amass sufficient context clues for a positive iD.
@anjum I use it with some of my recurring writing assignments — that way I can copy-paste the previous column or whatever, strike it all but remember my target word count and review what I wrote last month/quarter whatever bc I will not remember.

As my mom says, success brings many (fake) friends.

The added context is gold 😂

Hey comic nerds! University Press of Mississippi, which has a lot of comic-related titles, are 40% off right now -- I'm grabbing a few books, maybe you need some too!
https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Subjects/Comics-Studies
Comics Studies | University Press of Mississippi

The University Press of Mississippi (UPM) publishes books that interpret the South and its culture to the nation and the world, scholarly books of the highest distinction, and books vital to readers in African American studies, Caribbean studies, comics studies, film and media studies, folklore, history, literary studies, music, and popular culture.

Hearty congratulations to @natgertler and @benjclark for their Eisner win!
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@anjum @endquote @andybaio

Loving the thread! The Billy Ireland is a treasure.

You want Schulz originals?? The Schulz Museum has around 100 on exhibit at any given time. Sometimes other artists, too. Like, right now, there's a Pogo original from the early 1960s that Walt Kelly sent to Schulz in one of the exhibitions.