Indiana Illustrators and Hoosier Cartoonists

The Sunday newspaper comic section in America has its origins, as so much of our popular culture does, in the late nineteenth century. The ...

On the evening of December 4, 1903, Howard Pyle spoke in front of the Irvington Athenæum, a literary and cultural club formed a few years ...

In doing my research for today's posting, I was reminded of an exchange from What's Up, Doc? (1972): Hugh: I am Hugh. Judge Maxwe...

No one can say for sure who was the first Indiana artist, illustrator, or cartoonist. However, in a book called American Pioneer Arts and A...

At one time, Indianapolis was a leader in the arts. During t he late 1800s and early 1900s, prominent Indianapolitans banded together to es...

On Easter Sunday, March 23, 1913, after two days of high winds, heavy rains began to fall on the northern Indiana town of Logansport. By Tu...