Joe Hoover Papers
Scope and Contents
Includes Hoover's sketches and complete works especially done for Open Prairie Syndicate. Over 100 complete comic strips/images, 5 sketch books, multiple folders of tear sheets with Hoover's works, photocopies of other tear sheets, the original illustrations for If the Sun Were Queer. Additionally contains correspondence with fellow artists and files on bisexual activism organizing related to Bisexual Organizing Project (BOP) and BECAUSE.
Dates
- Creation: 1994-2001
Conditions Governing Access
Open for use in the Elmer L. Andersen Library reading room.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection may be protected by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code). It is the user's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and to obtain all necessary permissions prior to the reproduction, publication, or other use of any portion of these materials. Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provision of the copyright law.
Extent
3 Linear Feet (Two oversized Hollinger boxes and one flat box.)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Includes Hoover's sketches and complete works especially done for Open Prairie Syndicate and his book If the Sun Were Queer, tear sheets from newspapers Hoover had works in, and personal items related to artist peers and activism.
- Title
- Joe Hoover Papers, 1994-2001
- Author
- Joshlynn Borreson; Myra Billund-Phibbs
- Date
- August 2017; April 2019
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Collecting Area Details
Contact The Jean Nickolaus Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies Collecting Area
