Today in Comics History, October 29: Happy birthday, James Boswell!

Born on this day in 1740: James Boswell, writer, diarist, Scottish laird and biographer of his friend Samuel Johnson.



"Script Sleuths" from Batman (1940 series) #66 (DC, August 1951), text by Barbara Fairbanks, art by Raymond Perry
Happy birthday, Boz!



from "Excerpts from Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763" in Weirdo #3 (Last Gasp, Fall 1981), by Robert Crumb