IMAGE: Press clippings from the past year featuring Miss Mizzou.

This blog started a year ago with the release of my book “Miss Mizzou: A Life Beyond Comics” and I’ve been blogging about the character at least once a week since then.

Blog highlights:

• Graph showing popularity of word “Mizzou” over time
• Music that Miss Mizzou sang in the comic-strip
• Summer Olson’s role in Miss Mizzou’s popularity
• Comic characters inspired by Marilyn Monroe
• Columbia, MO, landmarks mentioned in “Steve Canyon”
• Miss Mizzou paper doll homage from the 1980s
• Marilyn Monroe’s 1952 calendar and Miss Mizzou
• Similarities of the Barbie doll & Miss Mizzou doll
• Dean Mott’s connection to Milton Caniff & Mort Walker
• Double meaning of the “Miss Mizzou” name

For the most part I’m done with this blog, though I might add a post now and then if something interesting comes up. Thanks for reading!

Miss Mizzou is the cover story in the fall 2015 issue of MIZZOU Magazine, the quarterly magazine of the Mizzou Alumni Association. Kelsey Allen interviewed me for the story and did a wonderful write-up about the book. (Don’t forget to check out her story with cartoonist Mort Walker in the issue too.) Past articles of the magazine (previously called the Missouri Alumnus before it was changed to MIZZOU) were incredibly helpful when it came to writing the book, so I’m glad the character could make a reappearance on the pages of the magazine!

Miss Mizzou was on the cover for Vox Magazine last week. Max Havey interviewed me for a story about different aspects of the Columbia, Missouri comic scene. It’s a cool article with a broad overview of the history of comics in Columbia. So glad the Miss Mizzou book could be mentioned as a part of that history!

The Daniel Boone Regional Library has a blog called DBRL Next that featured an interview with me earlier this week. (Thanks to Katie for asking all the interesting questions!) Please keep in mind that I’ll be giving a book talk at the Columbia Public Library branch of DBRL, Monday June 15th at 7:00 p.m. Hope to see you there!

I’m doing a Miss Mizzou book talk at the Columbia Public Library, June 15th, at 7:00 p.m. The Mizzou Store will be on hand to sell books that I can sign after the talk. Hope to see some of you there!