Happy National Comic Book Day (#NationalComicBookDay)!  Today we’re featuring Popeye, everyone’s favorite sailor! There are two volumes of Popeye comics in the Prange Collection, with Japanese translations of the speech bubbles appearing below the strips. (Prange Call No. PN-0562v_1, PN-0562v_2)  Several artists have drawn the Popeye comic strip over the years, beginning with E.C. Segar, […]

Happy National Comic Book Day (#NationalComicBookDay)!  Today we’re featuring Right Around Home (Prange Call No. PN-0561) by Dudley Fisher.  The strip ran from 1938 until 1965.  After Dudley Fisher’s death in 1951, his assistant, Bob Vittur, created the strip until the end of its run. The format of this comic was unusual — a single […]

Happy National Comic Book Day!  To celebrate the occasion, we’re featuring Felix the Cat (“猫のフェリックス” – Prange Call No. PN-0560).  This version by Otto Messmer has speech bubbles in Japanese with English below the frames and pages alternating in full color and black and white.   In case you’re unfamiliar with Felix, he got his start […]

September 25th is National Comic Book Day!  To celebrate, we’re featuring an iconic American comic that also had an audience in Japan, Blondie. Blondie was created by Murat Bernard “Chic” Young and was first published on September 8, 1930. It depicts the life of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead and their American middle-class life in the […]