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While you’re eagerly awaiting the premier of Black Panther, why not catch up on the history of the series with some comics?
In addition to the first issue of the self-titled series, released in 1977, the John P. Borger Collection holds many issues of the comic, including many from Christopher Priest’s classic volume, published between 1998 and 2003.
For more information on comics held within our collection, check out the full Collection Guide: http://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/4/resources/5774
Selection from a small cache of letters in our collection written by Laura Ingalls Wilder between 1949 and 1952 to Evelyn Wenzel, a graduate student who was writing a Master’s thesis on Wilder’s books.
“The old spirit of sturdy independence seems to be vanishing. We all depend too much on others. As modern life is lived we have to do so and more and more the individual alone is helpless. One is always at the mercy of others instead of being sufficient unto himself. A conflict with nature and the elements is a clean fight, but a struggle against man and his contrivances is something very different. At times I have a homesick longing for the old days and old ways. However, I know there is no turning back. We must go on.”
The Evelyn Wenzel Collection of Correspondence from Laura Ingalls Wilder, Children’s Literature Research Collections, University of Minnesota Libraries
These two beautiful pieces of concept art by Gustaf Tenggren for Pinocchio are currently on display at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts as part of their current exhibit “Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters.” If you are interested in learning more about the art and life of Gustaf Tenggren, the Assistant Curator of the Children’s Literature Research Collections will be giving a free talk as part of the University of Minnesota Libraries’ First Friday lecture series on Friday, April 7th at noon in Elmer Andersen Library, Room 120.
The handwritten first draft of My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Ruth Stiles Gannett Papers, Kerlan Collection
