There’s a local connection to a new exhibit at the world’s largest cartoon museum which is honouring the contribution of women comic strip and cartoon artists.

The exhibit that opened this month in Columbus, Ohio and runs until May 2020 includes works from early suffragette cartoonists and top comic strip page and mainstream comic book artists.

The display at Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum also includes works by communities of self-published minicomics creators and art from graphic novels and anthologies.

Contemporary artists with work featured in the display include Corbeil cartoonist Lynn Johnston, creator of the “For Better or For Worse” comic strip; Alison Bechdel, author of the graphic novel “Fun Home”; and Lynda Barry, author of the weekly strip “Ernie Pook’s Comeek.”

 

(With files from The Associated Press)

Archive photo: Lynn Johnston poses with her star on Canada’s Walk of Fame in Toronto Wednesday June 25, 2003. (CP PHOTO/Aaron Harris)

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