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by jf 1773 days ago
> Historical newspapers are one of the largest corpora of information that has yet to be adequately brought on line.

Not just information, but works of art as well!

A few years ago, I trained an image classifier to help me find Krazy Kat comics in newspaper archives. In the process of doing that, I came across a shocking amount of other comics and artwork. I was honestly surprised to see how many amazing illustrations and comics are just sitting in newspaper archives, waiting to be rediscovered.

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Fascinating. Fantagraphics (https://www.fantagraphics.com/collections/newspaper-comics) have done great work restoring and publishing such classics, but there might be much more to discover.