One person's trash is another person's treasure. And for the late Bill Blackbeard, the treasure that he'd stored from floor to ceiling in his San Francisco home was maybe the largest, most ...

Comics scholar Bill Blackbeard has died at the age of 84. The man credited with saving and organising millions of newspaper strips passed away on March 10 in Watsonville, California, only weeks before ...

Comics archivist Bill Blackbeard died last month, a man whose lifelong dedication to preserving the earliest examples of newspaper comics strips... Much of what we know today about the earliest days ...

The man credited with saving millions of historic newspaper comic strips from destruction and whose personal collection served as a key donation to Ohio State ...