The materials in the International Museum of Cartoon Art Collection and Records have been grouped into six series: 1) Proofs, prints and posters 2) Merchandise 3) Organizational records 4) Audio, video, film and floppy media 5) Photographs 6) materials created by animator and artist Wes Herschensohn.

The Proofs, prints and posters include newspaper tear sheets, clippings, comic strip pages aswell as adverts and prints. There are numerous Hal Foster Prince Valiant proofs and tearsheets. Many tearsheets in the collection were taken from the Chicago Tribune, New York Herald, Philadelphia Enquirer, South Bend Tribune, and Sun Sentinel. A number of the posters are for Disney movies.

The Merchandise in the collection is an eclectic mix of cartoon and comics themed collectibles. It includes plastic and ceramic figures, plushes, dolls, bobbleheads, mugs, plates, clothing, banners, board games, and various other realia relating to newspaper comic strip and TV/movie cartoon characters. They have been grouped where there was a significant number of items related to a particular character or strip. These include titles and characters such as Peanuts, Popeye, Garfield, Beetle Bailey, Kilban, Betty Boop, Little Orphan Annie, Nancy, Dick Tracy, Disney and various Superheroes. The merchancise also contains some IMCA related realia.

The bulk of the collection consists of the Organizational Records of the museum and includes correspondence, board of trustees records, financial files including bills and fiscal year reports, human resource records, curatorial and exhibition files, loan information, accession records, biographical files and newspaper clippings. There are files from the early 1990s concerning the constrution and building of the Boca Raton, IMCA building and correspondence relating to the closing of the museum including the Guernsey's catalog of materials sold from the collection in 2001.

The Audio, video, film and floppy media in the collection include over thirty reel to reel audio recordings from the 1950s and 1960s of 'The cartoonist's art' a WRVR syndicated radio show hosted by Vernon Greene. Also included from a similiar time period are twenty recordings of Bill Crawford interviewing contemporary cartoonists. Films include over 600 16mm reels of King Features TV cartoon shows from the 1950s, including; Krazy Kat, Cool McCool, Harry McCool, Popeye, Beetle Bailey & Barney Google.

The collection contains many photographs of the museum, mostly of IMCA at the Boca Raton, Florida location but there are also some of the museum at its Greenwich and Ward's castle locations.

Finally the collection contains hundreds of animation cels and drawings created by Wes Herschensohn for the 1969 movie 'The Picasso Summer' aswell as sketchbooks he created for 'Mikromythos' a proposed project on the life of Beethoven'.

The Jim Kammerud Collection documents his career in cartooning, espeically as it relates to animation. This collection is minally processed and described to allow for access. Collection includes original editorial cartoons by Kammerud created during his time at The Ohio State University student newspaper The Lantern. These cartoons have been cataloged at the item level in the original art database. The majority of the collection focuses on Kammerud's work with Character Builders, Disney, and House of Cool animation studios. Drawings, storyboards, background layouts, sequence drawings, character model sheets, roughs, sketches, concepts, notes for his work on animated features such as Rover Dangerfield, Bebe's Kids, Space Jam, Little Mermaid II, Pocahantas II, and many others can be found in the collection's contents.

The Skip Morrow Collection contains materials related to the 1982 best seller, The I Official I Hate Love book. Pencil and ink sketches, proofs, and handwritten notes used to create the book is included in the collection. In addition, there is a VHS cassette of animated video shorts by Morrow and pamphlet for his gallery, The Art of Humor in Wilmington, Vermont. Of particular interest, there is tear sheet for the advertisement for the Kurta company. Morrow was an early adopter of computer graphic systems and worked with Kurta to develop a computer tablet for artist.

Series one, Billy Jo Jive animated films, contains storyboards, handwritten production notes, memos, clearance forms, financial information, and agreements from John and Ted's company Shearer Visuals as they produced Billy Jo Jive animated cartoon films for Children's Television Workshop, which premiered on Sesame Street.

The second series, Comic strips and other works, includes scrapbooks with clippings of Shearer's other comic strips, The Hills, Next Door, and the Penny Power Club. There are also syndicate proof sheet of Quincy daily comic strips and a booklet with information about the strip to sell to newspapers.

Series three, Early work and family, is notable for a scrapbook with clippings of Shearer's High School newspaper comic strip, as well as other cartoon works he created as young man. Also included are family photographs of Shearer's friends and family, although the people are not identified.