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Bill Blackbeard

Bill Blackbeard , the founder-director of the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum, is the world's foremost authority on early 20th Century American comic strips. As a freelance writer, Blackbeard wrote, edited or contributed to more than 200 books on cartoons and comic strips, including The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics , 100 Years of Comic Strips , and the Krazy & Ignatz series.