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I am especially pleased to be sending this announcement to the EAD list, since several of its participants gave help and advice that made it possible to complete this project. Amy McCrory Project Archivist Cartoon Research Library Ohio State University Columbus, OH _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A finding aid to the Newspaper Comic Strips subgroup of the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art (SFACA) collection is now available on the World Wide Web. This subgroup includes over 2.5 million independent daily and Sunday strip episodes from U.S. newspapers, in the form of individual clippings, tear sheets, and complete Sunday sections. The collection covers nationally syndicated comic strips from 1898 to 1996. Records are organized by title, and include holdings dates, creator names, alternate titles, and a representative image of each comic feature. The collection, begun by Bill Blackbeard in the late 1960s, was acquired by the Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library in 1997. It is available as a resource for researchers interested in the history of comic strips, as well as other subjects related to U.S. newspapers, such as American journalism, commercial printing, and the graphic arts. The finding aid can be accessed at: http://dlib.lib.ohio-state.edu/cga The SFACA collection not only includes comic strips but also comic books and graphic novels, popular periodicals, popular fiction, dime novels and story papers, science fiction fanzines, and other materials related to popular narrative art and writing. Monograph and serial items can be searched through OSU's online catalog, OSCAR. OSCAR can be accessed at: http://library.ohio-state.edu/search