5th
December
1999
“The Comic Art Collection holds over 130,000 items. Most of these items are comic books, but also included are nearly 1,000 books of collected newspaper comic strips, and several thousand books and periodicals about comics. Although some archival material and a few dozen pieces of original comic book and comic strip art are held, the focus of the collection is on published work, in an effort to present a complete picture of what the audience has seen over the years of the twentieth century.”
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5th
December
1999
The ancient civilization of Cahokia Mounds “One thousand years ago, just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, the ancient civilization of Cahokia flourished. At its height, the city was larger than London or Rome. Today, the people are gone and their story is almost completely unknown. Pos
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5th
December
1999
An account of the POV Magazine 100 Top Sites banquet, and a vision for the web. “My site was Number 76. It was the only personal site in the 100, and one of three that you might call creative or artistic, the others being theremediproject.com (Number 96) and word.com (Number 50). The other 97 were corporate ventures (broadcast.com, mp3.com, amazon.com). The party was held at China Club, a velvet-roped space in the Times Square area.”
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5th
December
1999
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