Edgar E. Martin Collection : Boots and her buddies Sunday comic strip

Abstract

Edgard E. Martin Collection I. The collection contains information about Edgar E. Martin and Boots and Her Buddies, the comic strip that he created. Included in the collection are original comic strips from 1942-1959, selected clippings of the strip and articles from the same period. Continuities written by son-in-law Thomas B. Harris are in the collection.

Edgar E. Martin Collection II. Part 1.Included in the Edgar E. Martin Collection II is material related to Martin and his comic strip Boots and Her Buddies that have been added since the Martin I collection was placed on deposit in 1991 and 1992. Material from a 1992 Boots and Her Buddies exhibit in Ellis Library are in the collection. In conjunction with the exhibit, a catalog, Boots and Her Buddies, was prepared, the text of which was written by Thomas Harris. Copies of the catalog and issues of Cartoonists Profiles in which it was reprinted are in the collection. Clipped daily and Sunday Boots comic strips have been purchased and received as gifts. Many years of Boots and Her Buddies have been copied from microfilm. -- Part 2. This finding aid is a continuation of the Edgar E. Martin Collection II listing the newspaper clippings of the Sunday comic strip Boots and Her Buddies by Edgar E. Martin (later Thomas B. Harris, then Les Carroll) owned in the comic art archives of the Special Collections Division of MU Libraries.