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22 October 2020

The “Thomas Nast” Art Team, Part 3

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Yesterday’s Boston Globe praised the approach of the Massachusetts Historical Society’s “Thomas Nast: A Life in Cartoons” online exhibit:...

17 October 2020

The “Thomas Nast” Art Team, Part 2

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With the next set of pictures for “Thomas Nast: A Life in Cartoons,” we got into the political part of his career. And the three cartoonist...

15 October 2020

The “Thomas Nast” Art Team, Part 1

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Here’s commentary on the “Thomas Nast: A Life in Pictures” web exhibit and how the pictures came together. The exhibit starts with a portr...

09 October 2020

Taking Thomas Nast’s Life Online

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It was disappointing to learn, as I described recently , that the cartoon biography of Thomas Nast I’d worked on since this spring would not...

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06 October 2020

Making Space for Thomas Nast

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Early this year, folks at the Massachusetts Historical Society contacted me and colleagues in the Boston Comics Roundtable and invited us ...

25 December 2009

Denslow’s Santa Claus in Green and Brown

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At right is the cover of The Night Before Christmas as illustrated by W. W. Denslow in 1902. This Santa is wearing a red hat, but no red s...

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