The Trina Robbins Collection and Papers was first donated by Ms. Robbins in September and December 1993. It is primarily correspondence and reproductions of art related to her book A Century of Women Cartoonists. The collection also includes fanmail pertaining to the Marvel comic, Misty, and documents related to a ten week online comic writing class at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, which Ms. Robbins taught in the Fall of 2005. The 2017 accession includes VHS video cassettes, audio cassette tapes, and DVD recordings of her work. An additional donation was made in 2022 of newsletter and other materials from the California Rose O'Neil Association (CRONA). Donations of materials in 1999, 2000, 2001 contain research notes, manuscruipt drafts, correspondence about various book projects in the 1990s and early 2000s, and Ms. Robbins' work for Marvel Comics Barbie and Little Mermaid series.

The collection contains miscellaneous documents and correspondence items relating to meetings, exhibits and other events the Newspaper Features Council (NFC) held and participated in. There are bulletins, newsletters and pamphlets promoting different seminars the NFC attended. Copies of checks deposited, income tax forms and other financial documents can be found within its own series in this collection, as can various audio-visual material such as slides, transparencies, VHS cassette and audiocassette tapes. Also within this collection are membership reports, mailing lists and other items relating to NFC membership. There is also a series containing original art, proofs and tearsheets. The Newspaper Features Council Records are arranged into twelve series, each of which is further broken down into various subseries. Specific information on contents of the series and subseries can be found in the scope and content notes at the beginning of each series.

This finding aid is an inventory of SELECTED newspaper pages saved by the collector for their cartoon, comics or illustrative content.

It contains daily and Sunday newspaper pages, supplements and sections arranged alphabetically by NEWSPAPER TITLE.

Date ranges of holdings for each title and the names of artists and illustrators as we have found them, plus the names of any comic strips or features appearing on the pages, are recorded.

Whole Sunday comic sections are listed under the title of the newspaper in which they appeared. Sections were not clipped but were kept whole by the collector. He recognized that many of the early comic sections, dating from the 1890s to the 1920s, were extremely rare, and should be kept intact as in addition to the comic art they contain, many feature elaborate headers, marginal illustrations, and illustrated advertisements, all forming part of the overall design of the publication.

For a complete view of comic strip holdings in the entire collection it is necessary to also search:

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

and

San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection: Part 3, Artists

A note on SELECTED PAGES and date spans: It is important to stress that this finding aid describes only SELECTED pages from the newspaper titles listed. Date spans given are for pages selected by the collector for their cartoon, comic art or illustrative content. The collection does not have every page for the given dates for the newspapers listed here. Without looking at a particular folder it is not possible to ascertain which exact pages the collection contains. Date spans are given as a guide to the range of dates within a folder.