Bill Blackbeard
William Elsworth Blackbeard, better known as Bill Blackbeard, was a writer-editor and the founder-director of the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art, a comprehensive collection of comic strips and cartoon art from American newspapers. This major collection, consisting of 2.5 million clippings, tearsheets and comic sections, spanning the years 1894 to 1996, has provided source material for numerous books and articles by Blackbeard and other researchers.
28 April 1926
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Born on the same birth day (28 April): Andrew Mehrtens • António de Oliveira Salazar • Daequan Cook • David Freese • Ethel Catherwood • John Thorn (headmaster) • Josh Brookes • Jón Páll Sigmarsson • Kenneth Kaunda • Marcia Strassman • Michel Mohrt • Nikolai von Meck • Noriyuki Iwadare • Odette Hallowes • Phil King (musician) • Titus O'Neil • Violent J
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