For some time now, a major frustration in the comic strip community has been the failure of Mort Walker's International Museum of Cartoon Art. Walker started it in 1974 and it moved about before settling into a beautiful and permanent (Mort thought) home in Boca Raton, Florida in 1992. But tourists didn't flock to the place in sufficient number and it closed in 2002. Since then, the collection has been in storage while Mort and the other operators tried to unload the Florida building and find a new location.
Dirk Deppey over on the ¡Journalista! site is reporting (here's the link) that arrangements are being made to house a human rights museum in the Boca Raton structure…so that presumably means Walker is out from that financial encumbrance. And I hear from another source that they're close to announcing a new venue where the collection of rare and exemplary comic strips can be made available to the public…a very tall structure in New York that all by itself attracts tourists and that once housed a couple of comic book companies, including Timely (Marvel) Comics…