Most of them, until 1998, were stored at the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art (SFACA), in the garage and basement of a sprawling Spanish style stucco house at 2850 Ulloa Street a few blocks from the ocean in the Sunset District, a quiet residential neighborhood of the city. But long before he died, Blackbeard knew he would live on in scores of books that reprint American newspaper comic strips, all compiled from his monumental collection.Īs reporter Kevin Parks said several years ago at : “He saved the American comic strip-all of them.” On March 10, only a few weeks shy of his 85 th birthday, Blackbeard died in California at Country Villa Watsonville East Nursing Home where he had been living for some time. Harvey at at The SFACA in 1995.īill Blackbeard, without question or quibble, is the only absolutely indispensable figure in the history of comics scholarship for the last quarter century-and will undoubtedly retain the title for well into this century and beyond. Harvey | ApBill Blackbeard photographed by R.C. Features Bill Blackbeard, The Man Who Saved Comics, Dead at 84
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