![]() ![]() ![]() And in the midst of all of this sits another recent Eisner winner: Columbus’s Laughing Ogre Comics, aka The Laughing Ogre, which walked away with the Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award in 2021. ![]() ![]() Whatever the reason, the result has been a certain self-perpetuating passion for comics that extends from the Ohio State University’s widely-recognized comics studies program, the Caniff-stocked Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, and the well-regarded annual Cartoon Crossroads Columbus, to the surprise Eisner nomination for the Columbus Scribbler, a local giveaway comics newspaper, in 2022. Vaughan, and untold more born or raised on Buckeye soil with every passing year.Ī cultural historian might chalk it up to the state’s early centrality in the print media boom a Jungian might suggest the state’s capacity to tap into the American unconscious. Then there's Nick Anderson, and Bill Watterson, and Jeff Smith, and Brian Michael Bendis, and Brian K. As, of course, did those gawky discoverers of superheroics Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster (a little later in childhood). Richard Outcult (he of Hogan's Alley and Buster Brown fame) hailed from Ohio. Even in the absence of either the metropolitan gravitational pull of New York or the bohemian cachet of Oregon, the state has, over the past century and change, produced an almost bewildering number of notable figures in comic strips, books and academic studies. Ohio has always exerted a peculiar influence over the world of comics. ![]()
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