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Published: May 13, 2006 06:42 pm    print this story   email this story   comment on this story  

OCC collection keeps growing

Suter donation arrives at museum

A major gift of more than 2,000 comics books, magazines, and strips to the Oklahoma Cartoonists Collection were delivered Friday, May 12, to the Toy and Action Figure Museum, the home of the OCC.

Dr. Jon Suter recently donated this large collection featuring the work of Oklahoma cartoonists. A former librarian at East Central University in Ada, Suter is also a writer whose work is featured in the collection.

Dr. Suter is now Director of Libraries and a teacher of graduate classes in the liberal arts at Houston Baptist University; his courses include one on the history of comic books.

Born in Holdenville, Dr. Suter was among the earliest major collectors of comic books and strips in Oklahoma. His donation includes more than 500 magazines collecting comic strips and/or featuring articles on the history of the art form.

The more than 1,500 comic strips that will be displayed from the Suter gift include Dick Tracy, Broom Hilda, Alley Oop, Glamor Girls, and the editorial cartoons of Clarence Allen. Additional comic strips from Suter’s donation will be added at a later date.

The Oklahoma Cartoonists Collection already features the work of more than 50 Oklahoma cartoonists and their associates. TAFM currently showcases over 7,000 toys, 300 pieces of original comics art, a large selection of published comics by Oklahomans, and books and magazines on comic book and strip history.

“My goal is to expand our existing display for the enjoyment and education of the public,” said Michael Vance who procures and prepares materials for the Oklahoma Cartoonists Collection.

“The addition of this major gift is an important step in realizing that dream. It would literally take weeks to view the original art in the museum, and read the magazines and comic strips soon to be on display. I hope to have Suter’s donation in the museum by May.”

“We will soon be adding more than one hundred pieces of original art,” added Vance. “This will include expanding the collections of cartoonists already in the Toy and Action Figure Museum like Dave Graue (Alley Oop), E. Nelson Bridwell (Superman) and Stan Timmons (X-Men).

“It will also include work from new members like editorial cartoonist Chan Lowe, Frank Bolle, who draws the comic strip “Apartment 3-G”, Clarence Allen, one of the earliest editorial cartoonists in the state, and Jaxon Renick, who worked for Marvel and DC Comics.

“There is really nothing like the Oklahoma Artists Collection, and these new additions will require return trips to the museum to see everything on display.”

The Toy and Action Figure Museum is located at 111 S. Chickasaw in Pauls Valley. For more information, go to www.actionfiguremuseum.com or http://www.fourcolorcommentary.blogspot.com/, or call 405-238-6300.

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Michael Vance displays some of the 2,000 pieces of art work recently donated to the Oklahoma Cartoonists Collection, which is housed in Pauls Valley’s Toy and Action Figure Museum. (PVDD photo by Jim Richardson) / (Click for larger image)

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