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As resident Scholar with USIA, he consulted\n         and lectured abroad in eighteen countries, including France,\n         Italy, Portugal, Japan, New Zealand, Thailand, Indonesia,\n         Malaysia, and the People's Republic of China. More recently,\n         he has lectured in Poland, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Finland,\n         Denmark, England, Germany, and the Czech Republic. At the\n         invitation of the Gorky Institute, he returned to the Soviet\n         Union to participate in conferences on Sholokhov and Faulkner\n         and the works of Eudora Welty. He has led travel-study courses\n         to the Soviet Union in 1988 and China in 1989, and in 1994 he\n         taught at Charles University in Prague on a fourth Fulbright\n         lectureship.","Among others, Inge teaches courses in American humor and\n         satire and is the author or editor of over fifty books. His\n         three-volume Handbook of American Popular Culture was cited by\n         the American Library Association as an outstanding reference\n         work in 1979 and was issued in a revised and expanded edition\n         in 1989. In addition to his continuing interests in\n         literature, Inge is also engaged in research on the history\n         and development of American comic art, which resulted in his\n         book \"Comics as Culture.\"","More recent publications include \"Anything Can Happen in a\n         Comic Strip,\" a study of self-referentiality in the comics,\n         and \"Charles M. Schulz: Conversations, a collection of\n         interviews with the creator of Peanuts,\" the first in a series\n         of such collections for which Inge is serving as the general\n         editor for the University Press of Mississippi. Works in\n         progress include books on the relations between American\n         literature and the comics and the adaptation process in the\n         films of Walt Disney.\"","This biography is from the website \n         Witty World: International Cartoon\n         Centerat http://www.wittyworld.com/bios/bioinge.html.\n         It was accessed on September 11, 2002.","This collection is composed of materials collected by Dr.\n         Inge relating to his academic studies of the comic arts,\n         popular culture, and American literature. The bulk of the\n         collection is dated from the 1950s onward and is made up of\n         many unique items collected by Inge covering the history of\n         the comic arts. It includes a large collection of published\n         and unpublished materials and ephemera items relating to the\n         comic arts. Manuscripts by Inge and other writers are also\n         included. The collection contains correspondence with a number\n         of noted artists and writers, including Art Spieglman, Mort\n         Walker, Bruce Duncan, and Harold Foster, and comic arts\n         scholars. The collection includes advertisements, fan club\n         materials, posters, art prints, animation cells, comic strip\n         and comic book samples, comic and animation character drinking\n         glasses, numerous buttons, records, and various other\n         collectable items. Other materials incorporate Inge's\n         interests in American literature and include typescript copies\n         of the \n         Ellen Glasgow Newsletterand \n         Frontier Home, copies of\n         literary journals, numerous publications, and correspondence.\n         The collection also contains items of Dr. Inge's own personal\n         collection of materials ranging from his grade school papers\n         and school yearbooks to an autograph scrapbook and EC Fan Club\n         dating from the 1950s.","The collection is highlighted by a very large collection of\n         reference journals including fanzines, newsletters, journals,\n         and numerous other periodicals related to the comic arts.\n         These periodical titles focus on the history and art of comic\n         books and comic strips, cartoonists, comic book and comic\n         strip characters, animation, and other aspects of the comic\n         arts and popular culture. 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In August, 1976, the galley's for the\n            Glasgow book were added to the collection. In 1984, a\n            collection of comic books were given by Sarah Abrams\n            through Dr. Inge. In 1988, Dr. Inge gave on deposit a large\n            amount of comic art related materials. Additions to these\n            deposits was began 1990 and have continued on a semi-annual\n            basis."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This collection is 45.64 linear feet."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSeries I - Comic Arts. 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At the\n         invitation of the Gorky Institute, he returned to the Soviet\n         Union to participate in conferences on Sholokhov and Faulkner\n         and the works of Eudora Welty. He has led travel-study courses\n         to the Soviet Union in 1988 and China in 1989, and in 1994 he\n         taught at Charles University in Prague on a fourth Fulbright\n         lectureship.","Among others, Inge teaches courses in American humor and\n         satire and is the author or editor of over fifty books. His\n         three-volume Handbook of American Popular Culture was cited by\n         the American Library Association as an outstanding reference\n         work in 1979 and was issued in a revised and expanded edition\n         in 1989. In addition to his continuing interests in\n         literature, Inge is also engaged in research on the history\n         and development of American comic art, which resulted in his\n         book \"Comics as Culture.\"","More recent publications include \"Anything Can Happen in a\n         Comic Strip,\" a study of self-referentiality in the comics,\n         and \"Charles M. Schulz: Conversations, a collection of\n         interviews with the creator of Peanuts,\" the first in a series\n         of such collections for which Inge is serving as the general\n         editor for the University Press of Mississippi. Works in\n         progress include books on the relations between American\n         literature and the comics and the adaptation process in the\n         films of Walt Disney.\"","This biography is from the website \n         Witty World: International Cartoon\n         Centerat http://www.wittyworld.com/bios/bioinge.html.\n         It was accessed on September 11, 2002."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is composed of materials collected by Dr.\n         Inge relating to his academic studies of the comic arts,\n         popular culture, and American literature. The bulk of the\n         collection is dated from the 1950s onward and is made up of\n         many unique items collected by Inge covering the history of\n         the comic arts. It includes a large collection of published\n         and unpublished materials and ephemera items relating to the\n         comic arts. Manuscripts by Inge and other writers are also\n         included. 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After teaching at\n         Vanderbilt University, he became a member of the Department of\n         American Thought and Language at Michigan State University\n         from 1964 to 1969, when he joined the Department of English at\n         Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He served as\n         Chair of the department from 1974 to 1980 and then was Head of\n         the Department of English at Clemson University in South\n         Carolina. From 1982 to 1984, he was appointed Resident Scholar\n         in American Studies by the U.S. Information Agency in\n         Washington.","As a senior Fulbright Lecturer, Inge has taught at the\n         University of Salamanca in Spain (1967-68) and at three\n         institutions in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1971). On a third\n         Fulbright appointment in 1979, he offered courses on American\n         humor and literary regionalism at Moscow State University in\n         the Soviet Union. As resident Scholar with USIA, he consulted\n         and lectured abroad in eighteen countries, including France,\n         Italy, Portugal, Japan, New Zealand, Thailand, Indonesia,\n         Malaysia, and the People's Republic of China. More recently,\n         he has lectured in Poland, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Finland,\n         Denmark, England, Germany, and the Czech Republic. At the\n         invitation of the Gorky Institute, he returned to the Soviet\n         Union to participate in conferences on Sholokhov and Faulkner\n         and the works of Eudora Welty. He has led travel-study courses\n         to the Soviet Union in 1988 and China in 1989, and in 1994 he\n         taught at Charles University in Prague on a fourth Fulbright\n         lectureship.","Among others, Inge teaches courses in American humor and\n         satire and is the author or editor of over fifty books. His\n         three-volume Handbook of American Popular Culture was cited by\n         the American Library Association as an outstanding reference\n         work in 1979 and was issued in a revised and expanded edition\n         in 1989. In addition to his continuing interests in\n         literature, Inge is also engaged in research on the history\n         and development of American comic art, which resulted in his\n         book \"Comics as Culture.\"","More recent publications include \"Anything Can Happen in a\n         Comic Strip,\" a study of self-referentiality in the comics,\n         and \"Charles M. Schulz: Conversations, a collection of\n         interviews with the creator of Peanuts,\" the first in a series\n         of such collections for which Inge is serving as the general\n         editor for the University Press of Mississippi. Works in\n         progress include books on the relations between American\n         literature and the comics and the adaptation process in the\n         films of Walt Disney.\"","This biography is from the website \n         Witty World: International Cartoon\n         Centerat http://www.wittyworld.com/bios/bioinge.html.\n         It was accessed on September 11, 2002.","This collection is composed of materials collected by Dr.\n         Inge relating to his academic studies of the comic arts,\n         popular culture, and American literature. The bulk of the\n         collection is dated from the 1950s onward and is made up of\n         many unique items collected by Inge covering the history of\n         the comic arts. It includes a large collection of published\n         and unpublished materials and ephemera items relating to the\n         comic arts. Manuscripts by Inge and other writers are also\n         included. The collection contains correspondence with a number\n         of noted artists and writers, including Art Spieglman, Mort\n         Walker, Bruce Duncan, and Harold Foster, and comic arts\n         scholars. The collection includes advertisements, fan club\n         materials, posters, art prints, animation cells, comic strip\n         and comic book samples, comic and animation character drinking\n         glasses, numerous buttons, records, and various other\n         collectable items. Other materials incorporate Inge's\n         interests in American literature and include typescript copies\n         of the \n         Ellen Glasgow Newsletterand \n         Frontier Home, copies of\n         literary journals, numerous publications, and correspondence.\n         The collection also contains items of Dr. Inge's own personal\n         collection of materials ranging from his grade school papers\n         and school yearbooks to an autograph scrapbook and EC Fan Club\n         dating from the 1950s.","The collection is highlighted by a very large collection of\n         reference journals including fanzines, newsletters, journals,\n         and numerous other periodicals related to the comic arts.\n         These periodical titles focus on the history and art of comic\n         books and comic strips, cartoonists, comic book and comic\n         strip characters, animation, and other aspects of the comic\n         arts and popular culture. These materials, and the hundreds of\n         comic books and reference books donated by Dr. Inge, have been\n         incorporated into their own individual collections.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Thomas Inge papers \n 1879-2001"],"collection_ssim":["Thomas Inge papers \n 1879-2001"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["M 82: 84-Sep-22; 90-Apr-38;\n         90-Jul-91"],"unitid_tesim":["M 82: 84-Sep-22; 90-Apr-38;\n         90-Jul-91"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Commonwealth University, Cabell Library"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Commonwealth University, Cabell Library"],"acqinfo_ssim":["In February 1975, Dr. Inge donated a collection of his\n            papers on the comic arts and materials related to American\n            literature. The typescript copies of \n            Ellen Glasgow: Centennial\n            Essaysand \n            Frontier Humorwere given by\n            Inge in July, 1976. In August, 1976, the galley's for the\n            Glasgow book were added to the collection. In 1984, a\n            collection of comic books were given by Sarah Abrams\n            through Dr. Inge. In 1988, Dr. Inge gave on deposit a large\n            amount of comic art related materials. Additions to these\n            deposits was began 1990 and have continued on a semi-annual\n            basis."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This collection is 45.64 linear feet."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSeries I - Comic Arts. 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At the\n         invitation of the Gorky Institute, he returned to the Soviet\n         Union to participate in conferences on Sholokhov and Faulkner\n         and the works of Eudora Welty. He has led travel-study courses\n         to the Soviet Union in 1988 and China in 1989, and in 1994 he\n         taught at Charles University in Prague on a fourth Fulbright\n         lectureship.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAmong others, Inge teaches courses in American humor and\n         satire and is the author or editor of over fifty books. His\n         three-volume Handbook of American Popular Culture was cited by\n         the American Library Association as an outstanding reference\n         work in 1979 and was issued in a revised and expanded edition\n         in 1989. 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From 1982 to 1984, he was appointed Resident Scholar\n         in American Studies by the U.S. Information Agency in\n         Washington.","As a senior Fulbright Lecturer, Inge has taught at the\n         University of Salamanca in Spain (1967-68) and at three\n         institutions in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1971). On a third\n         Fulbright appointment in 1979, he offered courses on American\n         humor and literary regionalism at Moscow State University in\n         the Soviet Union. As resident Scholar with USIA, he consulted\n         and lectured abroad in eighteen countries, including France,\n         Italy, Portugal, Japan, New Zealand, Thailand, Indonesia,\n         Malaysia, and the People's Republic of China. More recently,\n         he has lectured in Poland, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Finland,\n         Denmark, England, Germany, and the Czech Republic. At the\n         invitation of the Gorky Institute, he returned to the Soviet\n         Union to participate in conferences on Sholokhov and Faulkner\n         and the works of Eudora Welty. He has led travel-study courses\n         to the Soviet Union in 1988 and China in 1989, and in 1994 he\n         taught at Charles University in Prague on a fourth Fulbright\n         lectureship.","Among others, Inge teaches courses in American humor and\n         satire and is the author or editor of over fifty books. His\n         three-volume Handbook of American Popular Culture was cited by\n         the American Library Association as an outstanding reference\n         work in 1979 and was issued in a revised and expanded edition\n         in 1989. In addition to his continuing interests in\n         literature, Inge is also engaged in research on the history\n         and development of American comic art, which resulted in his\n         book \"Comics as Culture.\"","More recent publications include \"Anything Can Happen in a\n         Comic Strip,\" a study of self-referentiality in the comics,\n         and \"Charles M. Schulz: Conversations, a collection of\n         interviews with the creator of Peanuts,\" the first in a series\n         of such collections for which Inge is serving as the general\n         editor for the University Press of Mississippi. Works in\n         progress include books on the relations between American\n         literature and the comics and the adaptation process in the\n         films of Walt Disney.\"","This biography is from the website \n         Witty World: International Cartoon\n         Centerat http://www.wittyworld.com/bios/bioinge.html.\n         It was accessed on September 11, 2002."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is composed of materials collected by Dr.\n         Inge relating to his academic studies of the comic arts,\n         popular culture, and American literature. The bulk of the\n         collection is dated from the 1950s onward and is made up of\n         many unique items collected by Inge covering the history of\n         the comic arts. It includes a large collection of published\n         and unpublished materials and ephemera items relating to the\n         comic arts. Manuscripts by Inge and other writers are also\n         included. 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Works in\n         progress include books on the relations between American\n         literature and the comics and the adaptation process in the\n         films of Walt Disney.\"","This biography is from the website \n         Witty World: International Cartoon\n         Centerat http://www.wittyworld.com/bios/bioinge.html.\n         It was accessed on September 11, 2002.","This collection is composed of materials collected by Dr.\n         Inge relating to his academic studies of the comic arts,\n         popular culture, and American literature. The bulk of the\n         collection is dated from the 1950s onward and is made up of\n         many unique items collected by Inge covering the history of\n         the comic arts. It includes a large collection of published\n         and unpublished materials and ephemera items relating to the\n         comic arts. Manuscripts by Inge and other writers are also\n         included. 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A native of Newport News,\n         Virginia, he received his B.A. degree in English and Spanish\n         from Randolph-Macon College in 1959 and his M.A. and Ph.D.\n         degrees in English and American literature from Vanderbilt\n         University in 1960 and 1964 respectively. After teaching at\n         Vanderbilt University, he became a member of the Department of\n         American Thought and Language at Michigan State University\n         from 1964 to 1969, when he joined the Department of English at\n         Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He served as\n         Chair of the department from 1974 to 1980 and then was Head of\n         the Department of English at Clemson University in South\n         Carolina. From 1982 to 1984, he was appointed Resident Scholar\n         in American Studies by the U.S. Information Agency in\n         Washington.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAs a senior Fulbright Lecturer, Inge has taught at the\n         University of Salamanca in Spain (1967-68) and at three\n         institutions in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1971). On a third\n         Fulbright appointment in 1979, he offered courses on American\n         humor and literary regionalism at Moscow State University in\n         the Soviet Union. As resident Scholar with USIA, he consulted\n         and lectured abroad in eighteen countries, including France,\n         Italy, Portugal, Japan, New Zealand, Thailand, Indonesia,\n         Malaysia, and the People's Republic of China. More recently,\n         he has lectured in Poland, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Finland,\n         Denmark, England, Germany, and the Czech Republic. At the\n         invitation of the Gorky Institute, he returned to the Soviet\n         Union to participate in conferences on Sholokhov and Faulkner\n         and the works of Eudora Welty. He has led travel-study courses\n         to the Soviet Union in 1988 and China in 1989, and in 1994 he\n         taught at Charles University in Prague on a fourth Fulbright\n         lectureship.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAmong others, Inge teaches courses in American humor and\n         satire and is the author or editor of over fifty books. His\n         three-volume Handbook of American Popular Culture was cited by\n         the American Library Association as an outstanding reference\n         work in 1979 and was issued in a revised and expanded edition\n         in 1989. In addition to his continuing interests in\n         literature, Inge is also engaged in research on the history\n         and development of American comic art, which resulted in his\n         book \"Comics as Culture.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMore recent publications include \"Anything Can Happen in a\n         Comic Strip,\" a study of self-referentiality in the comics,\n         and \"Charles M. Schulz: Conversations, a collection of\n         interviews with the creator of Peanuts,\" the first in a series\n         of such collections for which Inge is serving as the general\n         editor for the University Press of Mississippi. Works in\n         progress include books on the relations between American\n         literature and the comics and the adaptation process in the\n         films of Walt Disney.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThis biography is from the website \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eWitty World: International Cartoon\n         Center\u003c/title\u003eat http://www.wittyworld.com/bios/bioinge.html.\n         It was accessed on September 11, 2002.\u003c/p\u003e\n \n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["\"M. Thomas Inge, Ph.D. is the Robert Emory Blackwell\n         Professor of English and the Humanities at Randolph-Macon\n         College in Ashland, Virginia. A native of Newport News,\n         Virginia, he received his B.A. degree in English and Spanish\n         from Randolph-Macon College in 1959 and his M.A. and Ph.D.\n         degrees in English and American literature from Vanderbilt\n         University in 1960 and 1964 respectively. After teaching at\n         Vanderbilt University, he became a member of the Department of\n         American Thought and Language at Michigan State University\n         from 1964 to 1969, when he joined the Department of English at\n         Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He served as\n         Chair of the department from 1974 to 1980 and then was Head of\n         the Department of English at Clemson University in South\n         Carolina. From 1982 to 1984, he was appointed Resident Scholar\n         in American Studies by the U.S. Information Agency in\n         Washington.","As a senior Fulbright Lecturer, Inge has taught at the\n         University of Salamanca in Spain (1967-68) and at three\n         institutions in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1971). On a third\n         Fulbright appointment in 1979, he offered courses on American\n         humor and literary regionalism at Moscow State University in\n         the Soviet Union. As resident Scholar with USIA, he consulted\n         and lectured abroad in eighteen countries, including France,\n         Italy, Portugal, Japan, New Zealand, Thailand, Indonesia,\n         Malaysia, and the People's Republic of China. More recently,\n         he has lectured in Poland, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Finland,\n         Denmark, England, Germany, and the Czech Republic. At the\n         invitation of the Gorky Institute, he returned to the Soviet\n         Union to participate in conferences on Sholokhov and Faulkner\n         and the works of Eudora Welty. He has led travel-study courses\n         to the Soviet Union in 1988 and China in 1989, and in 1994 he\n         taught at Charles University in Prague on a fourth Fulbright\n         lectureship.","Among others, Inge teaches courses in American humor and\n         satire and is the author or editor of over fifty books. His\n         three-volume Handbook of American Popular Culture was cited by\n         the American Library Association as an outstanding reference\n         work in 1979 and was issued in a revised and expanded edition\n         in 1989. In addition to his continuing interests in\n         literature, Inge is also engaged in research on the history\n         and development of American comic art, which resulted in his\n         book \"Comics as Culture.\"","More recent publications include \"Anything Can Happen in a\n         Comic Strip,\" a study of self-referentiality in the comics,\n         and \"Charles M. Schulz: Conversations, a collection of\n         interviews with the creator of Peanuts,\" the first in a series\n         of such collections for which Inge is serving as the general\n         editor for the University Press of Mississippi. Works in\n         progress include books on the relations between American\n         literature and the comics and the adaptation process in the\n         films of Walt Disney.\"","This biography is from the website \n         Witty World: International Cartoon\n         Centerat http://www.wittyworld.com/bios/bioinge.html.\n         It was accessed on September 11, 2002."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is composed of materials collected by Dr.\n         Inge relating to his academic studies of the comic arts,\n         popular culture, and American literature. The bulk of the\n         collection is dated from the 1950s onward and is made up of\n         many unique items collected by Inge covering the history of\n         the comic arts. It includes a large collection of published\n         and unpublished materials and ephemera items relating to the\n         comic arts. Manuscripts by Inge and other writers are also\n         included. The collection contains correspondence with a number\n         of noted artists and writers, including Art Spieglman, Mort\n         Walker, Bruce Duncan, and Harold Foster, and comic arts\n         scholars. The collection includes advertisements, fan club\n         materials, posters, art prints, animation cells, comic strip\n         and comic book samples, comic and animation character drinking\n         glasses, numerous buttons, records, and various other\n         collectable items. Other materials incorporate Inge's\n         interests in American literature and include typescript copies\n         of the \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eEllen Glasgow Newsletter\u003c/title\u003eand \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eFrontier Home\u003c/title\u003e, copies of\n         literary journals, numerous publications, and correspondence.\n         The collection also contains items of Dr. Inge's own personal\n         collection of materials ranging from his grade school papers\n         and school yearbooks to an autograph scrapbook and EC Fan Club\n         dating from the 1950s.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe collection is highlighted by a very large collection of\n         reference journals including fanzines, newsletters, journals,\n         and numerous other periodicals related to the comic arts.\n         These periodical titles focus on the history and art of comic\n         books and comic strips, cartoonists, comic book and comic\n         strip characters, animation, and other aspects of the comic\n         arts and popular culture. These materials, and the hundreds of\n         comic books and reference books donated by Dr. Inge, have been\n         incorporated into their own individual collections.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection is composed of materials collected by Dr.\n         Inge relating to his academic studies of the comic arts,\n         popular culture, and American literature. The bulk of the\n         collection is dated from the 1950s onward and is made up of\n         many unique items collected by Inge covering the history of\n         the comic arts. It includes a large collection of published\n         and unpublished materials and ephemera items relating to the\n         comic arts. Manuscripts by Inge and other writers are also\n         included. The collection contains correspondence with a number\n         of noted artists and writers, including Art Spieglman, Mort\n         Walker, Bruce Duncan, and Harold Foster, and comic arts\n         scholars. The collection includes advertisements, fan club\n         materials, posters, art prints, animation cells, comic strip\n         and comic book samples, comic and animation character drinking\n         glasses, numerous buttons, records, and various other\n         collectable items. Other materials incorporate Inge's\n         interests in American literature and include typescript copies\n         of the \n         Ellen Glasgow Newsletterand \n         Frontier Home, copies of\n         literary journals, numerous publications, and correspondence.\n         The collection also contains items of Dr. Inge's own personal\n         collection of materials ranging from his grade school papers\n         and school yearbooks to an autograph scrapbook and EC Fan Club\n         dating from the 1950s.","The collection is highlighted by a very large collection of\n         reference journals including fanzines, newsletters, journals,\n         and numerous other periodicals related to the comic arts.\n         These periodical titles focus on the history and art of comic\n         books and comic strips, cartoonists, comic book and comic\n         strip characters, animation, and other aspects of the comic\n         arts and popular culture. 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After teaching at\n         Vanderbilt University, he became a member of the Department of\n         American Thought and Language at Michigan State University\n         from 1964 to 1969, when he joined the Department of English at\n         Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He served as\n         Chair of the department from 1974 to 1980 and then was Head of\n         the Department of English at Clemson University in South\n         Carolina. From 1982 to 1984, he was appointed Resident Scholar\n         in American Studies by the U.S. Information Agency in\n         Washington.","As a senior Fulbright Lecturer, Inge has taught at the\n         University of Salamanca in Spain (1967-68) and at three\n         institutions in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1971). On a third\n         Fulbright appointment in 1979, he offered courses on American\n         humor and literary regionalism at Moscow State University in\n         the Soviet Union. As resident Scholar with USIA, he consulted\n         and lectured abroad in eighteen countries, including France,\n         Italy, Portugal, Japan, New Zealand, Thailand, Indonesia,\n         Malaysia, and the People's Republic of China. More recently,\n         he has lectured in Poland, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Finland,\n         Denmark, England, Germany, and the Czech Republic. At the\n         invitation of the Gorky Institute, he returned to the Soviet\n         Union to participate in conferences on Sholokhov and Faulkner\n         and the works of Eudora Welty. He has led travel-study courses\n         to the Soviet Union in 1988 and China in 1989, and in 1994 he\n         taught at Charles University in Prague on a fourth Fulbright\n         lectureship.","Among others, Inge teaches courses in American humor and\n         satire and is the author or editor of over fifty books. His\n         three-volume Handbook of American Popular Culture was cited by\n         the American Library Association as an outstanding reference\n         work in 1979 and was issued in a revised and expanded edition\n         in 1989. In addition to his continuing interests in\n         literature, Inge is also engaged in research on the history\n         and development of American comic art, which resulted in his\n         book \"Comics as Culture.\"","More recent publications include \"Anything Can Happen in a\n         Comic Strip,\" a study of self-referentiality in the comics,\n         and \"Charles M. Schulz: Conversations, a collection of\n         interviews with the creator of Peanuts,\" the first in a series\n         of such collections for which Inge is serving as the general\n         editor for the University Press of Mississippi. Works in\n         progress include books on the relations between American\n         literature and the comics and the adaptation process in the\n         films of Walt Disney.\"","This biography is from the website \n         Witty World: International Cartoon\n         Centerat http://www.wittyworld.com/bios/bioinge.html.\n         It was accessed on September 11, 2002.","This collection is composed of materials collected by Dr.\n         Inge relating to his academic studies of the comic arts,\n         popular culture, and American literature. The bulk of the\n         collection is dated from the 1950s onward and is made up of\n         many unique items collected by Inge covering the history of\n         the comic arts. It includes a large collection of published\n         and unpublished materials and ephemera items relating to the\n         comic arts. Manuscripts by Inge and other writers are also\n         included. The collection contains correspondence with a number\n         of noted artists and writers, including Art Spieglman, Mort\n         Walker, Bruce Duncan, and Harold Foster, and comic arts\n         scholars. The collection includes advertisements, fan club\n         materials, posters, art prints, animation cells, comic strip\n         and comic book samples, comic and animation character drinking\n         glasses, numerous buttons, records, and various other\n         collectable items. Other materials incorporate Inge's\n         interests in American literature and include typescript copies\n         of the \n         Ellen Glasgow Newsletterand \n         Frontier Home, copies of\n         literary journals, numerous publications, and correspondence.\n         The collection also contains items of Dr. Inge's own personal\n         collection of materials ranging from his grade school papers\n         and school yearbooks to an autograph scrapbook and EC Fan Club\n         dating from the 1950s.","The collection is highlighted by a very large collection of\n         reference journals including fanzines, newsletters, journals,\n         and numerous other periodicals related to the comic arts.\n         These periodical titles focus on the history and art of comic\n         books and comic strips, cartoonists, comic book and comic\n         strip characters, animation, and other aspects of the comic\n         arts and popular culture. 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In August, 1976, the galley's for the\n            Glasgow book were added to the collection. In 1984, a\n            collection of comic books were given by Sarah Abrams\n            through Dr. Inge. In 1988, Dr. Inge gave on deposit a large\n            amount of comic art related materials. Additions to these\n            deposits was began 1990 and have continued on a semi-annual\n            basis."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This collection is 45.64 linear feet."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSeries I - Comic Arts. 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A native of Newport News,\n         Virginia, he received his B.A. degree in English and Spanish\n         from Randolph-Macon College in 1959 and his M.A. and Ph.D.\n         degrees in English and American literature from Vanderbilt\n         University in 1960 and 1964 respectively. After teaching at\n         Vanderbilt University, he became a member of the Department of\n         American Thought and Language at Michigan State University\n         from 1964 to 1969, when he joined the Department of English at\n         Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He served as\n         Chair of the department from 1974 to 1980 and then was Head of\n         the Department of English at Clemson University in South\n         Carolina. From 1982 to 1984, he was appointed Resident Scholar\n         in American Studies by the U.S. Information Agency in\n         Washington.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAs a senior Fulbright Lecturer, Inge has taught at the\n         University of Salamanca in Spain (1967-68) and at three\n         institutions in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1971). On a third\n         Fulbright appointment in 1979, he offered courses on American\n         humor and literary regionalism at Moscow State University in\n         the Soviet Union. As resident Scholar with USIA, he consulted\n         and lectured abroad in eighteen countries, including France,\n         Italy, Portugal, Japan, New Zealand, Thailand, Indonesia,\n         Malaysia, and the People's Republic of China. More recently,\n         he has lectured in Poland, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Finland,\n         Denmark, England, Germany, and the Czech Republic. At the\n         invitation of the Gorky Institute, he returned to the Soviet\n         Union to participate in conferences on Sholokhov and Faulkner\n         and the works of Eudora Welty. He has led travel-study courses\n         to the Soviet Union in 1988 and China in 1989, and in 1994 he\n         taught at Charles University in Prague on a fourth Fulbright\n         lectureship.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAmong others, Inge teaches courses in American humor and\n         satire and is the author or editor of over fifty books. His\n         three-volume Handbook of American Popular Culture was cited by\n         the American Library Association as an outstanding reference\n         work in 1979 and was issued in a revised and expanded edition\n         in 1989. In addition to his continuing interests in\n         literature, Inge is also engaged in research on the history\n         and development of American comic art, which resulted in his\n         book \"Comics as Culture.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMore recent publications include \"Anything Can Happen in a\n         Comic Strip,\" a study of self-referentiality in the comics,\n         and \"Charles M. Schulz: Conversations, a collection of\n         interviews with the creator of Peanuts,\" the first in a series\n         of such collections for which Inge is serving as the general\n         editor for the University Press of Mississippi. Works in\n         progress include books on the relations between American\n         literature and the comics and the adaptation process in the\n         films of Walt Disney.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThis biography is from the website \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eWitty World: International Cartoon\n         Center\u003c/title\u003eat http://www.wittyworld.com/bios/bioinge.html.\n         It was accessed on September 11, 2002.\u003c/p\u003e\n \n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["\"M. Thomas Inge, Ph.D. is the Robert Emory Blackwell\n         Professor of English and the Humanities at Randolph-Macon\n         College in Ashland, Virginia. A native of Newport News,\n         Virginia, he received his B.A. degree in English and Spanish\n         from Randolph-Macon College in 1959 and his M.A. and Ph.D.\n         degrees in English and American literature from Vanderbilt\n         University in 1960 and 1964 respectively. After teaching at\n         Vanderbilt University, he became a member of the Department of\n         American Thought and Language at Michigan State University\n         from 1964 to 1969, when he joined the Department of English at\n         Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He served as\n         Chair of the department from 1974 to 1980 and then was Head of\n         the Department of English at Clemson University in South\n         Carolina. From 1982 to 1984, he was appointed Resident Scholar\n         in American Studies by the U.S. Information Agency in\n         Washington.","As a senior Fulbright Lecturer, Inge has taught at the\n         University of Salamanca in Spain (1967-68) and at three\n         institutions in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1971). On a third\n         Fulbright appointment in 1979, he offered courses on American\n         humor and literary regionalism at Moscow State University in\n         the Soviet Union. As resident Scholar with USIA, he consulted\n         and lectured abroad in eighteen countries, including France,\n         Italy, Portugal, Japan, New Zealand, Thailand, Indonesia,\n         Malaysia, and the People's Republic of China. More recently,\n         he has lectured in Poland, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Finland,\n         Denmark, England, Germany, and the Czech Republic. At the\n         invitation of the Gorky Institute, he returned to the Soviet\n         Union to participate in conferences on Sholokhov and Faulkner\n         and the works of Eudora Welty. He has led travel-study courses\n         to the Soviet Union in 1988 and China in 1989, and in 1994 he\n         taught at Charles University in Prague on a fourth Fulbright\n         lectureship.","Among others, Inge teaches courses in American humor and\n         satire and is the author or editor of over fifty books. His\n         three-volume Handbook of American Popular Culture was cited by\n         the American Library Association as an outstanding reference\n         work in 1979 and was issued in a revised and expanded edition\n         in 1989. In addition to his continuing interests in\n         literature, Inge is also engaged in research on the history\n         and development of American comic art, which resulted in his\n         book \"Comics as Culture.\"","More recent publications include \"Anything Can Happen in a\n         Comic Strip,\" a study of self-referentiality in the comics,\n         and \"Charles M. Schulz: Conversations, a collection of\n         interviews with the creator of Peanuts,\" the first in a series\n         of such collections for which Inge is serving as the general\n         editor for the University Press of Mississippi. Works in\n         progress include books on the relations between American\n         literature and the comics and the adaptation process in the\n         films of Walt Disney.\"","This biography is from the website \n         Witty World: International Cartoon\n         Centerat http://www.wittyworld.com/bios/bioinge.html.\n         It was accessed on September 11, 2002."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is composed of materials collected by Dr.\n         Inge relating to his academic studies of the comic arts,\n         popular culture, and American literature. The bulk of the\n         collection is dated from the 1950s onward and is made up of\n         many unique items collected by Inge covering the history of\n         the comic arts. It includes a large collection of published\n         and unpublished materials and ephemera items relating to the\n         comic arts. Manuscripts by Inge and other writers are also\n         included. The collection contains correspondence with a number\n         of noted artists and writers, including Art Spieglman, Mort\n         Walker, Bruce Duncan, and Harold Foster, and comic arts\n         scholars. The collection includes advertisements, fan club\n         materials, posters, art prints, animation cells, comic strip\n         and comic book samples, comic and animation character drinking\n         glasses, numerous buttons, records, and various other\n         collectable items. 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The collection contains correspondence with a number\n         of noted artists and writers, including Art Spieglman, Mort\n         Walker, Bruce Duncan, and Harold Foster, and comic arts\n         scholars. The collection includes advertisements, fan club\n         materials, posters, art prints, animation cells, comic strip\n         and comic book samples, comic and animation character drinking\n         glasses, numerous buttons, records, and various other\n         collectable items. 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After teaching at\n         Vanderbilt University, he became a member of the Department of\n         American Thought and Language at Michigan State University\n         from 1964 to 1969, when he joined the Department of English at\n         Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He served as\n         Chair of the department from 1974 to 1980 and then was Head of\n         the Department of English at Clemson University in South\n         Carolina. From 1982 to 1984, he was appointed Resident Scholar\n         in American Studies by the U.S. Information Agency in\n         Washington.","As a senior Fulbright Lecturer, Inge has taught at the\n         University of Salamanca in Spain (1967-68) and at three\n         institutions in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1971). On a third\n         Fulbright appointment in 1979, he offered courses on American\n         humor and literary regionalism at Moscow State University in\n         the Soviet Union. As resident Scholar with USIA, he consulted\n         and lectured abroad in eighteen countries, including France,\n         Italy, Portugal, Japan, New Zealand, Thailand, Indonesia,\n         Malaysia, and the People's Republic of China. More recently,\n         he has lectured in Poland, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Finland,\n         Denmark, England, Germany, and the Czech Republic. At the\n         invitation of the Gorky Institute, he returned to the Soviet\n         Union to participate in conferences on Sholokhov and Faulkner\n         and the works of Eudora Welty. He has led travel-study courses\n         to the Soviet Union in 1988 and China in 1989, and in 1994 he\n         taught at Charles University in Prague on a fourth Fulbright\n         lectureship.","Among others, Inge teaches courses in American humor and\n         satire and is the author or editor of over fifty books. His\n         three-volume Handbook of American Popular Culture was cited by\n         the American Library Association as an outstanding reference\n         work in 1979 and was issued in a revised and expanded edition\n         in 1989. In addition to his continuing interests in\n         literature, Inge is also engaged in research on the history\n         and development of American comic art, which resulted in his\n         book \"Comics as Culture.\"","More recent publications include \"Anything Can Happen in a\n         Comic Strip,\" a study of self-referentiality in the comics,\n         and \"Charles M. Schulz: Conversations, a collection of\n         interviews with the creator of Peanuts,\" the first in a series\n         of such collections for which Inge is serving as the general\n         editor for the University Press of Mississippi. Works in\n         progress include books on the relations between American\n         literature and the comics and the adaptation process in the\n         films of Walt Disney.\"","This biography is from the website \n         Witty World: International Cartoon\n         Centerat http://www.wittyworld.com/bios/bioinge.html.\n         It was accessed on September 11, 2002.","This collection is composed of materials collected by Dr.\n         Inge relating to his academic studies of the comic arts,\n         popular culture, and American literature. The bulk of the\n         collection is dated from the 1950s onward and is made up of\n         many unique items collected by Inge covering the history of\n         the comic arts. It includes a large collection of published\n         and unpublished materials and ephemera items relating to the\n         comic arts. Manuscripts by Inge and other writers are also\n         included. The collection contains correspondence with a number\n         of noted artists and writers, including Art Spieglman, Mort\n         Walker, Bruce Duncan, and Harold Foster, and comic arts\n         scholars. The collection includes advertisements, fan club\n         materials, posters, art prints, animation cells, comic strip\n         and comic book samples, comic and animation character drinking\n         glasses, numerous buttons, records, and various other\n         collectable items. Other materials incorporate Inge's\n         interests in American literature and include typescript copies\n         of the \n         Ellen Glasgow Newsletterand \n         Frontier Home, copies of\n         literary journals, numerous publications, and correspondence.\n         The collection also contains items of Dr. Inge's own personal\n         collection of materials ranging from his grade school papers\n         and school yearbooks to an autograph scrapbook and EC Fan Club\n         dating from the 1950s.","The collection is highlighted by a very large collection of\n         reference journals including fanzines, newsletters, journals,\n         and numerous other periodicals related to the comic arts.\n         These periodical titles focus on the history and art of comic\n         books and comic strips, cartoonists, comic book and comic\n         strip characters, animation, and other aspects of the comic\n         arts and popular culture. 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In August, 1976, the galley's for the\n            Glasgow book were added to the collection. In 1984, a\n            collection of comic books were given by Sarah Abrams\n            through Dr. Inge. In 1988, Dr. Inge gave on deposit a large\n            amount of comic art related materials. Additions to these\n            deposits was began 1990 and have continued on a semi-annual\n            basis."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This collection is 45.64 linear feet."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSeries I - Comic Arts. 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In addition to his continuing interests in\n         literature, Inge is also engaged in research on the history\n         and development of American comic art, which resulted in his\n         book \"Comics as Culture.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMore recent publications include \"Anything Can Happen in a\n         Comic Strip,\" a study of self-referentiality in the comics,\n         and \"Charles M. Schulz: Conversations, a collection of\n         interviews with the creator of Peanuts,\" the first in a series\n         of such collections for which Inge is serving as the general\n         editor for the University Press of Mississippi. Works in\n         progress include books on the relations between American\n         literature and the comics and the adaptation process in the\n         films of Walt Disney.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThis biography is from the website \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eWitty World: International Cartoon\n         Center\u003c/title\u003eat http://www.wittyworld.com/bios/bioinge.html.\n         It was accessed on September 11, 2002.\u003c/p\u003e\n \n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["\"M. Thomas Inge, Ph.D. is the Robert Emory Blackwell\n         Professor of English and the Humanities at Randolph-Macon\n         College in Ashland, Virginia. A native of Newport News,\n         Virginia, he received his B.A. degree in English and Spanish\n         from Randolph-Macon College in 1959 and his M.A. and Ph.D.\n         degrees in English and American literature from Vanderbilt\n         University in 1960 and 1964 respectively. After teaching at\n         Vanderbilt University, he became a member of the Department of\n         American Thought and Language at Michigan State University\n         from 1964 to 1969, when he joined the Department of English at\n         Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He served as\n         Chair of the department from 1974 to 1980 and then was Head of\n         the Department of English at Clemson University in South\n         Carolina. From 1982 to 1984, he was appointed Resident Scholar\n         in American Studies by the U.S. Information Agency in\n         Washington.","As a senior Fulbright Lecturer, Inge has taught at the\n         University of Salamanca in Spain (1967-68) and at three\n         institutions in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1971). On a third\n         Fulbright appointment in 1979, he offered courses on American\n         humor and literary regionalism at Moscow State University in\n         the Soviet Union. As resident Scholar with USIA, he consulted\n         and lectured abroad in eighteen countries, including France,\n         Italy, Portugal, Japan, New Zealand, Thailand, Indonesia,\n         Malaysia, and the People's Republic of China. More recently,\n         he has lectured in Poland, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Finland,\n         Denmark, England, Germany, and the Czech Republic. At the\n         invitation of the Gorky Institute, he returned to the Soviet\n         Union to participate in conferences on Sholokhov and Faulkner\n         and the works of Eudora Welty. He has led travel-study courses\n         to the Soviet Union in 1988 and China in 1989, and in 1994 he\n         taught at Charles University in Prague on a fourth Fulbright\n         lectureship.","Among others, Inge teaches courses in American humor and\n         satire and is the author or editor of over fifty books. His\n         three-volume Handbook of American Popular Culture was cited by\n         the American Library Association as an outstanding reference\n         work in 1979 and was issued in a revised and expanded edition\n         in 1989. In addition to his continuing interests in\n         literature, Inge is also engaged in research on the history\n         and development of American comic art, which resulted in his\n         book \"Comics as Culture.\"","More recent publications include \"Anything Can Happen in a\n         Comic Strip,\" a study of self-referentiality in the comics,\n         and \"Charles M. Schulz: Conversations, a collection of\n         interviews with the creator of Peanuts,\" the first in a series\n         of such collections for which Inge is serving as the general\n         editor for the University Press of Mississippi. Works in\n         progress include books on the relations between American\n         literature and the comics and the adaptation process in the\n         films of Walt Disney.\"","This biography is from the website \n         Witty World: International Cartoon\n         Centerat http://www.wittyworld.com/bios/bioinge.html.\n         It was accessed on September 11, 2002."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is composed of materials collected by Dr.\n         Inge relating to his academic studies of the comic arts,\n         popular culture, and American literature. The bulk of the\n         collection is dated from the 1950s onward and is made up of\n         many unique items collected by Inge covering the history of\n         the comic arts. It includes a large collection of published\n         and unpublished materials and ephemera items relating to the\n         comic arts. Manuscripts by Inge and other writers are also\n         included. The collection contains correspondence with a number\n         of noted artists and writers, including Art Spieglman, Mort\n         Walker, Bruce Duncan, and Harold Foster, and comic arts\n         scholars. The collection includes advertisements, fan club\n         materials, posters, art prints, animation cells, comic strip\n         and comic book samples, comic and animation character drinking\n         glasses, numerous buttons, records, and various other\n         collectable items. 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The collection contains correspondence with a number\n         of noted artists and writers, including Art Spieglman, Mort\n         Walker, Bruce Duncan, and Harold Foster, and comic arts\n         scholars. The collection includes advertisements, fan club\n         materials, posters, art prints, animation cells, comic strip\n         and comic book samples, comic and animation character drinking\n         glasses, numerous buttons, records, and various other\n         collectable items. 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After teaching at\n         Vanderbilt University, he became a member of the Department of\n         American Thought and Language at Michigan State University\n         from 1964 to 1969, when he joined the Department of English at\n         Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He served as\n         Chair of the department from 1974 to 1980 and then was Head of\n         the Department of English at Clemson University in South\n         Carolina. From 1982 to 1984, he was appointed Resident Scholar\n         in American Studies by the U.S. Information Agency in\n         Washington.","As a senior Fulbright Lecturer, Inge has taught at the\n         University of Salamanca in Spain (1967-68) and at three\n         institutions in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1971). On a third\n         Fulbright appointment in 1979, he offered courses on American\n         humor and literary regionalism at Moscow State University in\n         the Soviet Union. As resident Scholar with USIA, he consulted\n         and lectured abroad in eighteen countries, including France,\n         Italy, Portugal, Japan, New Zealand, Thailand, Indonesia,\n         Malaysia, and the People's Republic of China. More recently,\n         he has lectured in Poland, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Finland,\n         Denmark, England, Germany, and the Czech Republic. At the\n         invitation of the Gorky Institute, he returned to the Soviet\n         Union to participate in conferences on Sholokhov and Faulkner\n         and the works of Eudora Welty. He has led travel-study courses\n         to the Soviet Union in 1988 and China in 1989, and in 1994 he\n         taught at Charles University in Prague on a fourth Fulbright\n         lectureship.","Among others, Inge teaches courses in American humor and\n         satire and is the author or editor of over fifty books. His\n         three-volume Handbook of American Popular Culture was cited by\n         the American Library Association as an outstanding reference\n         work in 1979 and was issued in a revised and expanded edition\n         in 1989. In addition to his continuing interests in\n         literature, Inge is also engaged in research on the history\n         and development of American comic art, which resulted in his\n         book \"Comics as Culture.\"","More recent publications include \"Anything Can Happen in a\n         Comic Strip,\" a study of self-referentiality in the comics,\n         and \"Charles M. Schulz: Conversations, a collection of\n         interviews with the creator of Peanuts,\" the first in a series\n         of such collections for which Inge is serving as the general\n         editor for the University Press of Mississippi. Works in\n         progress include books on the relations between American\n         literature and the comics and the adaptation process in the\n         films of Walt Disney.\"","This biography is from the website \n         Witty World: International Cartoon\n         Centerat http://www.wittyworld.com/bios/bioinge.html.\n         It was accessed on September 11, 2002.","This collection is composed of materials collected by Dr.\n         Inge relating to his academic studies of the comic arts,\n         popular culture, and American literature. The bulk of the\n         collection is dated from the 1950s onward and is made up of\n         many unique items collected by Inge covering the history of\n         the comic arts. It includes a large collection of published\n         and unpublished materials and ephemera items relating to the\n         comic arts. Manuscripts by Inge and other writers are also\n         included. 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Other materials incorporate Inge's\n         interests in American literature and include typescript copies\n         of the \n         Ellen Glasgow Newsletterand \n         Frontier Home, copies of\n         literary journals, numerous publications, and correspondence.\n         The collection also contains items of Dr. Inge's own personal\n         collection of materials ranging from his grade school papers\n         and school yearbooks to an autograph scrapbook and EC Fan Club\n         dating from the 1950s.","The collection is highlighted by a very large collection of\n         reference journals including fanzines, newsletters, journals,\n         and numerous other periodicals related to the comic arts.\n         These periodical titles focus on the history and art of comic\n         books and comic strips, cartoonists, comic book and comic\n         strip characters, animation, and other aspects of the comic\n         arts and popular culture. 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In August, 1976, the galley's for the\n            Glasgow book were added to the collection. In 1984, a\n            collection of comic books were given by Sarah Abrams\n            through Dr. Inge. In 1988, Dr. Inge gave on deposit a large\n            amount of comic art related materials. Additions to these\n            deposits was began 1990 and have continued on a semi-annual\n            basis."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This collection is 45.64 linear feet."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSeries I - Comic Arts. 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In addition to his continuing interests in\n         literature, Inge is also engaged in research on the history\n         and development of American comic art, which resulted in his\n         book \"Comics as Culture.\"","More recent publications include \"Anything Can Happen in a\n         Comic Strip,\" a study of self-referentiality in the comics,\n         and \"Charles M. Schulz: Conversations, a collection of\n         interviews with the creator of Peanuts,\" the first in a series\n         of such collections for which Inge is serving as the general\n         editor for the University Press of Mississippi. Works in\n         progress include books on the relations between American\n         literature and the comics and the adaptation process in the\n         films of Walt Disney.\"","This biography is from the website \n         Witty World: International Cartoon\n         Centerat http://www.wittyworld.com/bios/bioinge.html.\n         It was accessed on September 11, 2002."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is composed of materials collected by Dr.\n         Inge relating to his academic studies of the comic arts,\n         popular culture, and American literature. The bulk of the\n         collection is dated from the 1950s onward and is made up of\n         many unique items collected by Inge covering the history of\n         the comic arts. It includes a large collection of published\n         and unpublished materials and ephemera items relating to the\n         comic arts. Manuscripts by Inge and other writers are also\n         included. 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After teaching at\n         Vanderbilt University, he became a member of the Department of\n         American Thought and Language at Michigan State University\n         from 1964 to 1969, when he joined the Department of English at\n         Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He served as\n         Chair of the department from 1974 to 1980 and then was Head of\n         the Department of English at Clemson University in South\n         Carolina. From 1982 to 1984, he was appointed Resident Scholar\n         in American Studies by the U.S. Information Agency in\n         Washington.","As a senior Fulbright Lecturer, Inge has taught at the\n         University of Salamanca in Spain (1967-68) and at three\n         institutions in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1971). On a third\n         Fulbright appointment in 1979, he offered courses on American\n         humor and literary regionalism at Moscow State University in\n         the Soviet Union. As resident Scholar with USIA, he consulted\n         and lectured abroad in eighteen countries, including France,\n         Italy, Portugal, Japan, New Zealand, Thailand, Indonesia,\n         Malaysia, and the People's Republic of China. More recently,\n         he has lectured in Poland, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Finland,\n         Denmark, England, Germany, and the Czech Republic. At the\n         invitation of the Gorky Institute, he returned to the Soviet\n         Union to participate in conferences on Sholokhov and Faulkner\n         and the works of Eudora Welty. He has led travel-study courses\n         to the Soviet Union in 1988 and China in 1989, and in 1994 he\n         taught at Charles University in Prague on a fourth Fulbright\n         lectureship.","Among others, Inge teaches courses in American humor and\n         satire and is the author or editor of over fifty books. His\n         three-volume Handbook of American Popular Culture was cited by\n         the American Library Association as an outstanding reference\n         work in 1979 and was issued in a revised and expanded edition\n         in 1989. In addition to his continuing interests in\n         literature, Inge is also engaged in research on the history\n         and development of American comic art, which resulted in his\n         book \"Comics as Culture.\"","More recent publications include \"Anything Can Happen in a\n         Comic Strip,\" a study of self-referentiality in the comics,\n         and \"Charles M. Schulz: Conversations, a collection of\n         interviews with the creator of Peanuts,\" the first in a series\n         of such collections for which Inge is serving as the general\n         editor for the University Press of Mississippi. Works in\n         progress include books on the relations between American\n         literature and the comics and the adaptation process in the\n         films of Walt Disney.\"","This biography is from the website \n         Witty World: International Cartoon\n         Centerat http://www.wittyworld.com/bios/bioinge.html.\n         It was accessed on September 11, 2002.","This collection is composed of materials collected by Dr.\n         Inge relating to his academic studies of the comic arts,\n         popular culture, and American literature. The bulk of the\n         collection is dated from the 1950s onward and is made up of\n         many unique items collected by Inge covering the history of\n         the comic arts. It includes a large collection of published\n         and unpublished materials and ephemera items relating to the\n         comic arts. Manuscripts by Inge and other writers are also\n         included. The collection contains correspondence with a number\n         of noted artists and writers, including Art Spieglman, Mort\n         Walker, Bruce Duncan, and Harold Foster, and comic arts\n         scholars. The collection includes advertisements, fan club\n         materials, posters, art prints, animation cells, comic strip\n         and comic book samples, comic and animation character drinking\n         glasses, numerous buttons, records, and various other\n         collectable items. Other materials incorporate Inge's\n         interests in American literature and include typescript copies\n         of the \n         Ellen Glasgow Newsletterand \n         Frontier Home, copies of\n         literary journals, numerous publications, and correspondence.\n         The collection also contains items of Dr. Inge's own personal\n         collection of materials ranging from his grade school papers\n         and school yearbooks to an autograph scrapbook and EC Fan Club\n         dating from the 1950s.","The collection is highlighted by a very large collection of\n         reference journals including fanzines, newsletters, journals,\n         and numerous other periodicals related to the comic arts.\n         These periodical titles focus on the history and art of comic\n         books and comic strips, cartoonists, comic book and comic\n         strip characters, animation, and other aspects of the comic\n         arts and popular culture. These materials, and the hundreds of\n         comic books and reference books donated by Dr. Inge, have been\n         incorporated into their own individual collections.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Thomas Inge papers \n 1879-2001"],"collection_ssim":["Thomas Inge papers \n 1879-2001"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["M 82: 84-Sep-22; 90-Apr-38;\n         90-Jul-91"],"unitid_tesim":["M 82: 84-Sep-22; 90-Apr-38;\n         90-Jul-91"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Commonwealth University, Cabell Library"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Commonwealth University, Cabell Library"],"acqinfo_ssim":["In February 1975, Dr. Inge donated a collection of his\n            papers on the comic arts and materials related to American\n            literature. The typescript copies of \n            Ellen Glasgow: Centennial\n            Essaysand \n            Frontier Humorwere given by\n            Inge in July, 1976. In August, 1976, the galley's for the\n            Glasgow book were added to the collection. In 1984, a\n            collection of comic books were given by Sarah Abrams\n            through Dr. Inge. In 1988, Dr. Inge gave on deposit a large\n            amount of comic art related materials. Additions to these\n            deposits was began 1990 and have continued on a semi-annual\n            basis."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This collection is 45.64 linear feet."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSeries I - Comic Arts. 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In addition to his continuing interests in\n         literature, Inge is also engaged in research on the history\n         and development of American comic art, which resulted in his\n         book \"Comics as Culture.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMore recent publications include \"Anything Can Happen in a\n         Comic Strip,\" a study of self-referentiality in the comics,\n         and \"Charles M. Schulz: Conversations, a collection of\n         interviews with the creator of Peanuts,\" the first in a series\n         of such collections for which Inge is serving as the general\n         editor for the University Press of Mississippi. 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From 1982 to 1984, he was appointed Resident Scholar\n         in American Studies by the U.S. Information Agency in\n         Washington.","As a senior Fulbright Lecturer, Inge has taught at the\n         University of Salamanca in Spain (1967-68) and at three\n         institutions in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1971). On a third\n         Fulbright appointment in 1979, he offered courses on American\n         humor and literary regionalism at Moscow State University in\n         the Soviet Union. As resident Scholar with USIA, he consulted\n         and lectured abroad in eighteen countries, including France,\n         Italy, Portugal, Japan, New Zealand, Thailand, Indonesia,\n         Malaysia, and the People's Republic of China. More recently,\n         he has lectured in Poland, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Finland,\n         Denmark, England, Germany, and the Czech Republic. At the\n         invitation of the Gorky Institute, he returned to the Soviet\n         Union to participate in conferences on Sholokhov and Faulkner\n         and the works of Eudora Welty. He has led travel-study courses\n         to the Soviet Union in 1988 and China in 1989, and in 1994 he\n         taught at Charles University in Prague on a fourth Fulbright\n         lectureship.","Among others, Inge teaches courses in American humor and\n         satire and is the author or editor of over fifty books. His\n         three-volume Handbook of American Popular Culture was cited by\n         the American Library Association as an outstanding reference\n         work in 1979 and was issued in a revised and expanded edition\n         in 1989. In addition to his continuing interests in\n         literature, Inge is also engaged in research on the history\n         and development of American comic art, which resulted in his\n         book \"Comics as Culture.\"","More recent publications include \"Anything Can Happen in a\n         Comic Strip,\" a study of self-referentiality in the comics,\n         and \"Charles M. Schulz: Conversations, a collection of\n         interviews with the creator of Peanuts,\" the first in a series\n         of such collections for which Inge is serving as the general\n         editor for the University Press of Mississippi. Works in\n         progress include books on the relations between American\n         literature and the comics and the adaptation process in the\n         films of Walt Disney.\"","This biography is from the website \n         Witty World: International Cartoon\n         Centerat http://www.wittyworld.com/bios/bioinge.html.\n         It was accessed on September 11, 2002."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is composed of materials collected by Dr.\n         Inge relating to his academic studies of the comic arts,\n         popular culture, and American literature. The bulk of the\n         collection is dated from the 1950s onward and is made up of\n         many unique items collected by Inge covering the history of\n         the comic arts. It includes a large collection of published\n         and unpublished materials and ephemera items relating to the\n         comic arts. Manuscripts by Inge and other writers are also\n         included. 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Works in\n         progress include books on the relations between American\n         literature and the comics and the adaptation process in the\n         films of Walt Disney.\"","This biography is from the website \n         Witty World: International Cartoon\n         Centerat http://www.wittyworld.com/bios/bioinge.html.\n         It was accessed on September 11, 2002.","This collection is composed of materials collected by Dr.\n         Inge relating to his academic studies of the comic arts,\n         popular culture, and American literature. The bulk of the\n         collection is dated from the 1950s onward and is made up of\n         many unique items collected by Inge covering the history of\n         the comic arts. It includes a large collection of published\n         and unpublished materials and ephemera items relating to the\n         comic arts. Manuscripts by Inge and other writers are also\n         included. 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A native of Newport News,\n         Virginia, he received his B.A. degree in English and Spanish\n         from Randolph-Macon College in 1959 and his M.A. and Ph.D.\n         degrees in English and American literature from Vanderbilt\n         University in 1960 and 1964 respectively. After teaching at\n         Vanderbilt University, he became a member of the Department of\n         American Thought and Language at Michigan State University\n         from 1964 to 1969, when he joined the Department of English at\n         Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He served as\n         Chair of the department from 1974 to 1980 and then was Head of\n         the Department of English at Clemson University in South\n         Carolina. From 1982 to 1984, he was appointed Resident Scholar\n         in American Studies by the U.S. Information Agency in\n         Washington.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAs a senior Fulbright Lecturer, Inge has taught at the\n         University of Salamanca in Spain (1967-68) and at three\n         institutions in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1971). On a third\n         Fulbright appointment in 1979, he offered courses on American\n         humor and literary regionalism at Moscow State University in\n         the Soviet Union. As resident Scholar with USIA, he consulted\n         and lectured abroad in eighteen countries, including France,\n         Italy, Portugal, Japan, New Zealand, Thailand, Indonesia,\n         Malaysia, and the People's Republic of China. More recently,\n         he has lectured in Poland, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Finland,\n         Denmark, England, Germany, and the Czech Republic. At the\n         invitation of the Gorky Institute, he returned to the Soviet\n         Union to participate in conferences on Sholokhov and Faulkner\n         and the works of Eudora Welty. He has led travel-study courses\n         to the Soviet Union in 1988 and China in 1989, and in 1994 he\n         taught at Charles University in Prague on a fourth Fulbright\n         lectureship.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAmong others, Inge teaches courses in American humor and\n         satire and is the author or editor of over fifty books. His\n         three-volume Handbook of American Popular Culture was cited by\n         the American Library Association as an outstanding reference\n         work in 1979 and was issued in a revised and expanded edition\n         in 1989. In addition to his continuing interests in\n         literature, Inge is also engaged in research on the history\n         and development of American comic art, which resulted in his\n         book \"Comics as Culture.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMore recent publications include \"Anything Can Happen in a\n         Comic Strip,\" a study of self-referentiality in the comics,\n         and \"Charles M. Schulz: Conversations, a collection of\n         interviews with the creator of Peanuts,\" the first in a series\n         of such collections for which Inge is serving as the general\n         editor for the University Press of Mississippi. Works in\n         progress include books on the relations between American\n         literature and the comics and the adaptation process in the\n         films of Walt Disney.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThis biography is from the website \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eWitty World: International Cartoon\n         Center\u003c/title\u003eat http://www.wittyworld.com/bios/bioinge.html.\n         It was accessed on September 11, 2002.\u003c/p\u003e\n \n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["\"M. Thomas Inge, Ph.D. is the Robert Emory Blackwell\n         Professor of English and the Humanities at Randolph-Macon\n         College in Ashland, Virginia. A native of Newport News,\n         Virginia, he received his B.A. degree in English and Spanish\n         from Randolph-Macon College in 1959 and his M.A. and Ph.D.\n         degrees in English and American literature from Vanderbilt\n         University in 1960 and 1964 respectively. After teaching at\n         Vanderbilt University, he became a member of the Department of\n         American Thought and Language at Michigan State University\n         from 1964 to 1969, when he joined the Department of English at\n         Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He served as\n         Chair of the department from 1974 to 1980 and then was Head of\n         the Department of English at Clemson University in South\n         Carolina. From 1982 to 1984, he was appointed Resident Scholar\n         in American Studies by the U.S. Information Agency in\n         Washington.","As a senior Fulbright Lecturer, Inge has taught at the\n         University of Salamanca in Spain (1967-68) and at three\n         institutions in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1971). On a third\n         Fulbright appointment in 1979, he offered courses on American\n         humor and literary regionalism at Moscow State University in\n         the Soviet Union. As resident Scholar with USIA, he consulted\n         and lectured abroad in eighteen countries, including France,\n         Italy, Portugal, Japan, New Zealand, Thailand, Indonesia,\n         Malaysia, and the People's Republic of China. More recently,\n         he has lectured in Poland, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Finland,\n         Denmark, England, Germany, and the Czech Republic. At the\n         invitation of the Gorky Institute, he returned to the Soviet\n         Union to participate in conferences on Sholokhov and Faulkner\n         and the works of Eudora Welty. He has led travel-study courses\n         to the Soviet Union in 1988 and China in 1989, and in 1994 he\n         taught at Charles University in Prague on a fourth Fulbright\n         lectureship.","Among others, Inge teaches courses in American humor and\n         satire and is the author or editor of over fifty books. His\n         three-volume Handbook of American Popular Culture was cited by\n         the American Library Association as an outstanding reference\n         work in 1979 and was issued in a revised and expanded edition\n         in 1989. In addition to his continuing interests in\n         literature, Inge is also engaged in research on the history\n         and development of American comic art, which resulted in his\n         book \"Comics as Culture.\"","More recent publications include \"Anything Can Happen in a\n         Comic Strip,\" a study of self-referentiality in the comics,\n         and \"Charles M. Schulz: Conversations, a collection of\n         interviews with the creator of Peanuts,\" the first in a series\n         of such collections for which Inge is serving as the general\n         editor for the University Press of Mississippi. Works in\n         progress include books on the relations between American\n         literature and the comics and the adaptation process in the\n         films of Walt Disney.\"","This biography is from the website \n         Witty World: International Cartoon\n         Centerat http://www.wittyworld.com/bios/bioinge.html.\n         It was accessed on September 11, 2002."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is composed of materials collected by Dr.\n         Inge relating to his academic studies of the comic arts,\n         popular culture, and American literature. The bulk of the\n         collection is dated from the 1950s onward and is made up of\n         many unique items collected by Inge covering the history of\n         the comic arts. It includes a large collection of published\n         and unpublished materials and ephemera items relating to the\n         comic arts. Manuscripts by Inge and other writers are also\n         included. The collection contains correspondence with a number\n         of noted artists and writers, including Art Spieglman, Mort\n         Walker, Bruce Duncan, and Harold Foster, and comic arts\n         scholars. The collection includes advertisements, fan club\n         materials, posters, art prints, animation cells, comic strip\n         and comic book samples, comic and animation character drinking\n         glasses, numerous buttons, records, and various other\n         collectable items. Other materials incorporate Inge's\n         interests in American literature and include typescript copies\n         of the \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eEllen Glasgow Newsletter\u003c/title\u003eand \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eFrontier Home\u003c/title\u003e, copies of\n         literary journals, numerous publications, and correspondence.\n         The collection also contains items of Dr. Inge's own personal\n         collection of materials ranging from his grade school papers\n         and school yearbooks to an autograph scrapbook and EC Fan Club\n         dating from the 1950s.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe collection is highlighted by a very large collection of\n         reference journals including fanzines, newsletters, journals,\n         and numerous other periodicals related to the comic arts.\n         These periodical titles focus on the history and art of comic\n         books and comic strips, cartoonists, comic book and comic\n         strip characters, animation, and other aspects of the comic\n         arts and popular culture. These materials, and the hundreds of\n         comic books and reference books donated by Dr. Inge, have been\n         incorporated into their own individual collections.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection is composed of materials collected by Dr.\n         Inge relating to his academic studies of the comic arts,\n         popular culture, and American literature. The bulk of the\n         collection is dated from the 1950s onward and is made up of\n         many unique items collected by Inge covering the history of\n         the comic arts. It includes a large collection of published\n         and unpublished materials and ephemera items relating to the\n         comic arts. Manuscripts by Inge and other writers are also\n         included. The collection contains correspondence with a number\n         of noted artists and writers, including Art Spieglman, Mort\n         Walker, Bruce Duncan, and Harold Foster, and comic arts\n         scholars. The collection includes advertisements, fan club\n         materials, posters, art prints, animation cells, comic strip\n         and comic book samples, comic and animation character drinking\n         glasses, numerous buttons, records, and various other\n         collectable items. Other materials incorporate Inge's\n         interests in American literature and include typescript copies\n         of the \n         Ellen Glasgow Newsletterand \n         Frontier Home, copies of\n         literary journals, numerous publications, and correspondence.\n         The collection also contains items of Dr. Inge's own personal\n         collection of materials ranging from his grade school papers\n         and school yearbooks to an autograph scrapbook and EC Fan Club\n         dating from the 1950s.","The collection is highlighted by a very large collection of\n         reference journals including fanzines, newsletters, journals,\n         and numerous other periodicals related to the comic arts.\n         These periodical titles focus on the history and art of comic\n         books and comic strips, cartoonists, comic book and comic\n         strip characters, animation, and other aspects of the comic\n         arts and popular culture. 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After teaching at\n         Vanderbilt University, he became a member of the Department of\n         American Thought and Language at Michigan State University\n         from 1964 to 1969, when he joined the Department of English at\n         Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He served as\n         Chair of the department from 1974 to 1980 and then was Head of\n         the Department of English at Clemson University in South\n         Carolina. From 1982 to 1984, he was appointed Resident Scholar\n         in American Studies by the U.S. Information Agency in\n         Washington.","As a senior Fulbright Lecturer, Inge has taught at the\n         University of Salamanca in Spain (1967-68) and at three\n         institutions in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1971). On a third\n         Fulbright appointment in 1979, he offered courses on American\n         humor and literary regionalism at Moscow State University in\n         the Soviet Union. As resident Scholar with USIA, he consulted\n         and lectured abroad in eighteen countries, including France,\n         Italy, Portugal, Japan, New Zealand, Thailand, Indonesia,\n         Malaysia, and the People's Republic of China. More recently,\n         he has lectured in Poland, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Finland,\n         Denmark, England, Germany, and the Czech Republic. At the\n         invitation of the Gorky Institute, he returned to the Soviet\n         Union to participate in conferences on Sholokhov and Faulkner\n         and the works of Eudora Welty. He has led travel-study courses\n         to the Soviet Union in 1988 and China in 1989, and in 1994 he\n         taught at Charles University in Prague on a fourth Fulbright\n         lectureship.","Among others, Inge teaches courses in American humor and\n         satire and is the author or editor of over fifty books. His\n         three-volume Handbook of American Popular Culture was cited by\n         the American Library Association as an outstanding reference\n         work in 1979 and was issued in a revised and expanded edition\n         in 1989. In addition to his continuing interests in\n         literature, Inge is also engaged in research on the history\n         and development of American comic art, which resulted in his\n         book \"Comics as Culture.\"","More recent publications include \"Anything Can Happen in a\n         Comic Strip,\" a study of self-referentiality in the comics,\n         and \"Charles M. Schulz: Conversations, a collection of\n         interviews with the creator of Peanuts,\" the first in a series\n         of such collections for which Inge is serving as the general\n         editor for the University Press of Mississippi. Works in\n         progress include books on the relations between American\n         literature and the comics and the adaptation process in the\n         films of Walt Disney.\"","This biography is from the website \n         Witty World: International Cartoon\n         Centerat http://www.wittyworld.com/bios/bioinge.html.\n         It was accessed on September 11, 2002.","This collection is composed of materials collected by Dr.\n         Inge relating to his academic studies of the comic arts,\n         popular culture, and American literature. The bulk of the\n         collection is dated from the 1950s onward and is made up of\n         many unique items collected by Inge covering the history of\n         the comic arts. It includes a large collection of published\n         and unpublished materials and ephemera items relating to the\n         comic arts. Manuscripts by Inge and other writers are also\n         included. The collection contains correspondence with a number\n         of noted artists and writers, including Art Spieglman, Mort\n         Walker, Bruce Duncan, and Harold Foster, and comic arts\n         scholars. The collection includes advertisements, fan club\n         materials, posters, art prints, animation cells, comic strip\n         and comic book samples, comic and animation character drinking\n         glasses, numerous buttons, records, and various other\n         collectable items. Other materials incorporate Inge's\n         interests in American literature and include typescript copies\n         of the \n         Ellen Glasgow Newsletterand \n         Frontier Home, copies of\n         literary journals, numerous publications, and correspondence.\n         The collection also contains items of Dr. Inge's own personal\n         collection of materials ranging from his grade school papers\n         and school yearbooks to an autograph scrapbook and EC Fan Club\n         dating from the 1950s.","The collection is highlighted by a very large collection of\n         reference journals including fanzines, newsletters, journals,\n         and numerous other periodicals related to the comic arts.\n         These periodical titles focus on the history and art of comic\n         books and comic strips, cartoonists, comic book and comic\n         strip characters, animation, and other aspects of the comic\n         arts and popular culture. These materials, and the hundreds of\n         comic books and reference books donated by Dr. Inge, have been\n         incorporated into their own individual collections.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Thomas Inge papers \n 1879-2001"],"collection_ssim":["Thomas Inge papers \n 1879-2001"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["M 82: 84-Sep-22; 90-Apr-38;\n         90-Jul-91"],"unitid_tesim":["M 82: 84-Sep-22; 90-Apr-38;\n         90-Jul-91"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Commonwealth University, Cabell Library"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Commonwealth University, Cabell Library"],"acqinfo_ssim":["In February 1975, Dr. Inge donated a collection of his\n            papers on the comic arts and materials related to American\n            literature. The typescript copies of \n            Ellen Glasgow: Centennial\n            Essaysand \n            Frontier Humorwere given by\n            Inge in July, 1976. In August, 1976, the galley's for the\n            Glasgow book were added to the collection. In 1984, a\n            collection of comic books were given by Sarah Abrams\n            through Dr. Inge. In 1988, Dr. Inge gave on deposit a large\n            amount of comic art related materials. Additions to these\n            deposits was began 1990 and have continued on a semi-annual\n            basis."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This collection is 45.64 linear feet."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSeries I - Comic Arts. 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A native of Newport News,\n         Virginia, he received his B.A. degree in English and Spanish\n         from Randolph-Macon College in 1959 and his M.A. and Ph.D.\n         degrees in English and American literature from Vanderbilt\n         University in 1960 and 1964 respectively. After teaching at\n         Vanderbilt University, he became a member of the Department of\n         American Thought and Language at Michigan State University\n         from 1964 to 1969, when he joined the Department of English at\n         Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He served as\n         Chair of the department from 1974 to 1980 and then was Head of\n         the Department of English at Clemson University in South\n         Carolina. From 1982 to 1984, he was appointed Resident Scholar\n         in American Studies by the U.S. Information Agency in\n         Washington.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAs a senior Fulbright Lecturer, Inge has taught at the\n         University of Salamanca in Spain (1967-68) and at three\n         institutions in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1971). On a third\n         Fulbright appointment in 1979, he offered courses on American\n         humor and literary regionalism at Moscow State University in\n         the Soviet Union. As resident Scholar with USIA, he consulted\n         and lectured abroad in eighteen countries, including France,\n         Italy, Portugal, Japan, New Zealand, Thailand, Indonesia,\n         Malaysia, and the People's Republic of China. More recently,\n         he has lectured in Poland, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Finland,\n         Denmark, England, Germany, and the Czech Republic. At the\n         invitation of the Gorky Institute, he returned to the Soviet\n         Union to participate in conferences on Sholokhov and Faulkner\n         and the works of Eudora Welty. He has led travel-study courses\n         to the Soviet Union in 1988 and China in 1989, and in 1994 he\n         taught at Charles University in Prague on a fourth Fulbright\n         lectureship.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAmong others, Inge teaches courses in American humor and\n         satire and is the author or editor of over fifty books. His\n         three-volume Handbook of American Popular Culture was cited by\n         the American Library Association as an outstanding reference\n         work in 1979 and was issued in a revised and expanded edition\n         in 1989. In addition to his continuing interests in\n         literature, Inge is also engaged in research on the history\n         and development of American comic art, which resulted in his\n         book \"Comics as Culture.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMore recent publications include \"Anything Can Happen in a\n         Comic Strip,\" a study of self-referentiality in the comics,\n         and \"Charles M. Schulz: Conversations, a collection of\n         interviews with the creator of Peanuts,\" the first in a series\n         of such collections for which Inge is serving as the general\n         editor for the University Press of Mississippi. Works in\n         progress include books on the relations between American\n         literature and the comics and the adaptation process in the\n         films of Walt Disney.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThis biography is from the website \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eWitty World: International Cartoon\n         Center\u003c/title\u003eat http://www.wittyworld.com/bios/bioinge.html.\n         It was accessed on September 11, 2002.\u003c/p\u003e\n \n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["\"M. Thomas Inge, Ph.D. is the Robert Emory Blackwell\n         Professor of English and the Humanities at Randolph-Macon\n         College in Ashland, Virginia. A native of Newport News,\n         Virginia, he received his B.A. degree in English and Spanish\n         from Randolph-Macon College in 1959 and his M.A. and Ph.D.\n         degrees in English and American literature from Vanderbilt\n         University in 1960 and 1964 respectively. After teaching at\n         Vanderbilt University, he became a member of the Department of\n         American Thought and Language at Michigan State University\n         from 1964 to 1969, when he joined the Department of English at\n         Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He served as\n         Chair of the department from 1974 to 1980 and then was Head of\n         the Department of English at Clemson University in South\n         Carolina. From 1982 to 1984, he was appointed Resident Scholar\n         in American Studies by the U.S. Information Agency in\n         Washington.","As a senior Fulbright Lecturer, Inge has taught at the\n         University of Salamanca in Spain (1967-68) and at three\n         institutions in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1971). On a third\n         Fulbright appointment in 1979, he offered courses on American\n         humor and literary regionalism at Moscow State University in\n         the Soviet Union. As resident Scholar with USIA, he consulted\n         and lectured abroad in eighteen countries, including France,\n         Italy, Portugal, Japan, New Zealand, Thailand, Indonesia,\n         Malaysia, and the People's Republic of China. More recently,\n         he has lectured in Poland, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Finland,\n         Denmark, England, Germany, and the Czech Republic. At the\n         invitation of the Gorky Institute, he returned to the Soviet\n         Union to participate in conferences on Sholokhov and Faulkner\n         and the works of Eudora Welty. He has led travel-study courses\n         to the Soviet Union in 1988 and China in 1989, and in 1994 he\n         taught at Charles University in Prague on a fourth Fulbright\n         lectureship.","Among others, Inge teaches courses in American humor and\n         satire and is the author or editor of over fifty books. His\n         three-volume Handbook of American Popular Culture was cited by\n         the American Library Association as an outstanding reference\n         work in 1979 and was issued in a revised and expanded edition\n         in 1989. In addition to his continuing interests in\n         literature, Inge is also engaged in research on the history\n         and development of American comic art, which resulted in his\n         book \"Comics as Culture.\"","More recent publications include \"Anything Can Happen in a\n         Comic Strip,\" a study of self-referentiality in the comics,\n         and \"Charles M. Schulz: Conversations, a collection of\n         interviews with the creator of Peanuts,\" the first in a series\n         of such collections for which Inge is serving as the general\n         editor for the University Press of Mississippi. Works in\n         progress include books on the relations between American\n         literature and the comics and the adaptation process in the\n         films of Walt Disney.\"","This biography is from the website \n         Witty World: International Cartoon\n         Centerat http://www.wittyworld.com/bios/bioinge.html.\n         It was accessed on September 11, 2002."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is composed of materials collected by Dr.\n         Inge relating to his academic studies of the comic arts,\n         popular culture, and American literature. The bulk of the\n         collection is dated from the 1950s onward and is made up of\n         many unique items collected by Inge covering the history of\n         the comic arts. It includes a large collection of published\n         and unpublished materials and ephemera items relating to the\n         comic arts. Manuscripts by Inge and other writers are also\n         included. 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Works in\n         progress include books on the relations between American\n         literature and the comics and the adaptation process in the\n         films of Walt Disney.\"","This biography is from the website \n         Witty World: International Cartoon\n         Centerat http://www.wittyworld.com/bios/bioinge.html.\n         It was accessed on September 11, 2002.","This collection is composed of materials collected by Dr.\n         Inge relating to his academic studies of the comic arts,\n         popular culture, and American literature. The bulk of the\n         collection is dated from the 1950s onward and is made up of\n         many unique items collected by Inge covering the history of\n         the comic arts. It includes a large collection of published\n         and unpublished materials and ephemera items relating to the\n         comic arts. Manuscripts by Inge and other writers are also\n         included. 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At the\n         invitation of the Gorky Institute, he returned to the Soviet\n         Union to participate in conferences on Sholokhov and Faulkner\n         and the works of Eudora Welty. He has led travel-study courses\n         to the Soviet Union in 1988 and China in 1989, and in 1994 he\n         taught at Charles University in Prague on a fourth Fulbright\n         lectureship.","Among others, Inge teaches courses in American humor and\n         satire and is the author or editor of over fifty books. His\n         three-volume Handbook of American Popular Culture was cited by\n         the American Library Association as an outstanding reference\n         work in 1979 and was issued in a revised and expanded edition\n         in 1989. In addition to his continuing interests in\n         literature, Inge is also engaged in research on the history\n         and development of American comic art, which resulted in his\n         book \"Comics as Culture.\"","More recent publications include \"Anything Can Happen in a\n         Comic Strip,\" a study of self-referentiality in the comics,\n         and \"Charles M. Schulz: Conversations, a collection of\n         interviews with the creator of Peanuts,\" the first in a series\n         of such collections for which Inge is serving as the general\n         editor for the University Press of Mississippi. Works in\n         progress include books on the relations between American\n         literature and the comics and the adaptation process in the\n         films of Walt Disney.\"","This biography is from the website \n         Witty World: International Cartoon\n         Centerat http://www.wittyworld.com/bios/bioinge.html.\n         It was accessed on September 11, 2002."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is composed of materials collected by Dr.\n         Inge relating to his academic studies of the comic arts,\n         popular culture, and American literature. The bulk of the\n         collection is dated from the 1950s onward and is made up of\n         many unique items collected by Inge covering the history of\n         the comic arts. It includes a large collection of published\n         and unpublished materials and ephemera items relating to the\n         comic arts. Manuscripts by Inge and other writers are also\n         included. 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