Catalog of
The Barbara Slate Archive
Photographed and described by
Richard
Minsky
The cover panel is a self-portrait by
Barbara Slate
Spine title in 22K gold
Exhibition poster, 2015.
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The Barbara Slate Archive occupies an estimated
35 cubic feet of material, which includes copies of all
published works, scripts, layouts, editorial comments,
drafts, revisions, original art, press clippings,
ephemera, and born-digital materials archived on a 2 TB
portable drive. It also includes many unpublished works,
screenplays, and commissioned projects, and a pair of
roller skates.
Barbara Slate is praised as “emphatically of our time”
by The New York Times, “titanically talented”
by comics legend Stan Lee, and “a groundbreaking artist”
and “industry trailblazer” by the Pennsylvania College
of Technology, which brought her in as Keynoter for
their third ‘Wildcat Comic Con.’
She is best known as a pioneering feminist cartoonist
bridging mainstream and alternative comics. Her creation
of the empowering character Ms. Liz in the mid 1970s
propelled her to wide recognition when it was adopted as
a series of animated features on NBC’s TODAY show in
1982. The Archive includes the videotapes of these
segments, including interviews of Barbara by Jane Pauley
and Bryant Gumbel.
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Draft
page from Barbara Slate's autobiography (in progress,
2018)
Reproduced
in
Catalog of
The Barbara Slate Archive
A Ms. Liz page in Catalog of The Barbara
Slate Archive
Ms. Liz
was created originally as a line of feminist greeting
cards that was issued in 1976. The character developed
into a comic strip for the liberated woman that dealt
with conflict between traditional and new values. It
was featured in Cosmopolitan, Self, New
Woman, and Working Woman magazines,
and was an animated feature on the TODAY show for two
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Because of its interdisciplinarity, The Barbara
Slate Archive has material for researchers
and students of
- comics and graphic novels
- women's and gender studies
- creative writing
- book history
- literature
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- publishing
- zines
- art process
- character development
- plot development
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For business, entrepreneurship and economics
students it shows in much detail
- the business of producing comics and books,
- merchandising and monetizing characters
- adapting to different media.
For film/TV and animation students it shows
- the process of transforming a proposal into a
script and a storyboard
- in the example of Ms. Liz, into the finished
animated series on the TODAY show.
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Barbara Slate's graphic novel
Angel
Love was presented by DCComics
as a 9 part Maxi-series in 1987-88. It was the first
mainstream comic for teens to address sex, drugs,
abortion, and other social issues relevant to the
times.
It's a funny book, wacky in places, using humor to
defuse difficult subjects. Set in New York City, there
are talking cockroaches who serve the role of the
Greek chorus.
Not approved by the Comics Code Authority, the final
issue had a "For Mature Readers" notice. Mail in the
archive includes letters from girls for whom the
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A Yuppies from Hell page in Catalog
of The Barbara Slate Archive
Yuppies
From Hell,
a satirical look into the lifestyle,
relationships, and real estate of young urban
professionals, was published by Marvel in 1989,
followed by Son of Yuppies From Hell
(1990) and Sex, Lies and Mutual Funds of the
Yuppies From Hell in 1992. Together the
three volumes make a 144 page graphic novel. |
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A Barbie page in Catalog of The
Barbara Slate Archive
Barbie
and Barbie Fashion
comics were published by Marvel from 1991-96.
Barbara Slate wrote 65 of the 116 issues, in which
Barbie could be and do almost anything, setting an
empowering role model. In one issue she teaches
bookbinding at the Center for Book Arts, in
another she's a scuba diver. These comics expand a
girl's opportunity set about what a woman can do.
The comics won the Parents Choice award and were
praised by Ms. magazine.
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Two Pocahontas pages
in Catalog of The Barbara Slate Archive
An Archie Comics page
in Catalog of The Barbara
Slate Archive
From 2003-2013 Barbara Slate wrote more than
150 stories for Archie Comics, mostly
focusing on the friendship between
Betty and Veronica.
She did 15 Archie
stories, 29 Betty,
and 16 Veronica.
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A Getting Married
and Other Mistakes page in
Catalog of The Barbara Slate
Archive
It took 17
years for Barbara to complete Getting
Married and Other Mistakes,
which was published in 2012 by Other
Press. It went through several titles,
including Sad Brides, and
was serialized as a half-page comic in
41 issues of the Columbia Paper in
2009-2010 as I Got Married and
Other Mistakes.
The
Barbara Slate Archive includes
many other titles and projects,
occupying about 35 cubic feet of
shelf space. To get a more
comprehensive look at her work,
visit the Barbara Slate
Website.
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The cover
panel is a self-portrait by Barbara
Slate
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