This collection features audiovisual materials, workbooks, and newspaper tearsheets related to the work of American artist and illustrator, Mary Sherwood Wright Jones. Audiovisual materials include a Lexar Flash Drive and DVD PowerPoint Presentation outlining the life and work of Jones. Along with audiovisual materials, documents like an original Busy Brownies Diagnostic Pre-Primer Reading workbook are included as well as tearsheets from the children's newspaper, My Weekly Reader. These tearsheets range in date from 1935 to 1951 and feature Jones' best known character, Peek the Brownie.

The Chon Day Collection and Papers features roughs and sketches, roughs, letters and award plaques for the "Best Special Features Cartoonist" and "Best Gag Cartoonist" National Cartoonists Society Rueben Awards. Original art by Chon Day has been separated and cataloged in the original art database.

The John J. Gallagher Collection and Papers contain his commercial work, clippings and press material, "spec" or speculative cartoon work, which was created to sell to various publications, correspondence, early works, and personal materials from his family. This finding aid is arranged in intellectual order rather than sequential box and folder numbers order to accommodate the varying material sizes. Some of the folders include notes from Gallagher's son, Michael, that provide context for the materials.

Collection of original comic strips and cartoons, clippings of political cartoons, illustrated sheet music and miscellany.--Political cartoons and illustrations (1916-1917), Columbus Daily Monitor--Cap Stubbs and Tippie (daily comic strip) (1959-1961)--Tippie (Sunday strip) (1/18/48)--Alec the Great (dates unknown), with verses written by Robert Dennis Dumm--Sinbad (1923?)--sheet music: Shelter lullaby (1943); Tippie and the circus (1944); Tippie and the hurdy-gurdy (1947); Tippie's Hallowe'en serenade (1947); and the Christmas tree (1950)--photo, misc. papers, tape and transcript of oral history interview (2/15/85)

Original art works in this collection may be found by searching the library's original art database.

The Mark Winchester Collection of Comics Art and Papers contains research files and correspondence materials related to Winchester’s dissertation “Cartoon Theatricals from 1896 to 1927: Gus Hill’s Cartoon Road Shows for the American Theatre.” The material focuses on cartoon theatrical and cartoon dramatic works of the Yellow Kid/McFadden’s Row of Flats, Alphonse and Gaston, Happy Hooligan, Mutt and Jeff, and Bringing Up Father, with an emphasis on copyright and litigation.

The types of materials in the collection are all physical pieces of original cartoon art, rough drafts, correspondence, newspaper clippings, acrylic and watercolor paintings, figurines, and photographs.

This collection from the National Cartoonists Society contains the records pertaining to the organization and its history. Documents contained in the collection include notes and transcripts from meetings, award ceremonies, and fundraisers, photographs, clippings and tearsheets, correspondence, treasurer and annual reports, elections results, exhibition details, and other related materials.

This finding aid is a list of early 20th century cartoon ARTISTS whose work was specifically selected and separated by the collector from the entire SFACA collection.

The finding aid contains selected examples of their work, including editorial cartoons, cartoon panels, daily black and white comic strips and full page color Sunday comic strip pages.

It is worth noting that it represents only a fraction of the work by these particular artists in the whole collection. It is necessary to check the THREE finding aids that describe the collection to successfully see what the entire collection contains of their work, or of the work of any given artist. This finding aid is not a complete list of the names of all of the artists whose work can be found in the collection.

Look for more examples of these and other artists work in:

San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection: Part 1, Newspaper comic strips

and

San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection: Part 2, Newspaper ns2:titles