90s Mini-Comics Oral History Archives Introduction

03/11/24 • 3 min

Imagine waiting two weeks to know if you got a LIKE.
Imagine taking an all nighter, a bunch of stapling and two trip to the copy store and post office in the cold to make a POST.

In the decade before the internet, people made comics, and reached out to each other. They shared, they liked and loved. They connected through the mail, and through meet-ups and festivals.

This project aims to collect the stories of ANYONE who made self-published mini-comics in the roughly 10 years before the broad acceptance of the internet (the 90’s, give or take.)

These audio/video archives will exist at the University of Florida’s Digital Repository as well as the Sequential Artists Workshop’s Youtube channel and podcast links.

In partnership with the University of Florida Samuel Proctor Oral History Project,The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum,and Spit and a Half Distribution.

Imagine waiting two weeks to know if you got a LIKE.
Imagine taking an all nighter, a bunch of stapling and two trip to the copy store and post office in the cold to make a POST.

In the decade before the internet, people made comics, and reached out to each other. They shared, they liked and loved. They connected through the mail, and through meet-ups and festivals.

This project aims to collect the stories of ANYONE who made self-published mini-comics in the roughly 10 years before the broad acceptance of the internet (the 90’s, give or take.)

These audio/video archives will exist at the University of Florida’s Digital Repository as well as the Sequential Artists Workshop’s Youtube channel and podcast links.

In partnership with the University of Florida Samuel Proctor Oral History Project,The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum,and Spit and a Half Distribution.

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Tom Hart - 90s Mini-Comics Oral History Archives

Tom Hart is the founder of The Sequential Artists Workshop and the subject of our beta test of the 90s Mini-Comics Oral History Archives.

He is the creator of Hutch Owen, Love Looks Left, Wodaabe and many mini-comics in the 90s and after.

The 90s Mini Comics Oral History aims to collect the stories of ANYONE who made self-published mini-comics in the roughly 10 years before the broad acceptance of the internet (the 90’s, give or take.)