The collection also includes metal printing blocks that match the selection of Empie Kartoon Kards and printing matrices. These are printmaking artifacts.

This collection contains materials related to career of Larry Harris including roughs of comic strips and cartoon ideas in addition to clippings of published cartoons. The collection also includes original cartoon art by Larry Harris.

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

Original cartoon art, correspondence, photographs, clippings.

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

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.

Chiefly research and production materials relating to Canemaker's book "Winsor McCay, his life and art." Includes photocopies of correspondence, cartoons, contracts, census records, calendar diary, notes, research materials, McCay family tree, etc. Includes photocopies of 322 sequential drawings from McCay's animated film Gertie the dinosaur used as a flipbook. Includes book correspondence, letters from the McCay family, clippings, printed materials, interview notes, etc. Includes also original and revised manuscripts for Canemaker's book Felix, the twisted tale of the world's most famous cat. Includes cassette tapes of interviews by John Canemaker dating from 1984 to 1988. Interviewees include Ray Moniz, John Fitzsimmons, Dorothy and Jim Noonan, Jane Barnes Cameron, Tedda McCay and Janet Trinker, Robert Brotherton and William Randolph Hearst. In May 2012 two folders of material were added to the collection. A folder contains 1870 and 1880 census reports, which supported Canemaker's belief that McCay was born in 1867 in Canada. Another folder contains research on McCay's years in Vaudeville theater and information regarding the musical "Little Nemo."

The Charles Rodrigues Collection and Papers contain original art and proofs Rodrigues' newspaper features Charlie and Casey the Cop. It also contains original cartoon art and roughs that appeared in magazines, such as Stereo Review, Playboy, and National Lampoon. There are some personal materials in the collection, such as biographical and financial information, as well as correspondence.

The collection consists of original art, in a variety of media, and includes tearsheets, proofs, posters, mechanicals and photographs of Eisner's works; general papers; business correspondence; fan mail; educational materials developed by Eisner, such as the series Grammarfun; comic books; examples of his commercial products; books illustrated by Eisner; scrapbooks; magazine articles by or about Will Eisner; merchandise, mostly from The Spirit; memorabilia. Also included are works by artists who worked for Eisner, such as Jules Feiffer, Andre LeBlanc, Klaus Nordling and Fred Schwab. Numerous works by Eisner, including PS, are cataloged separately in the library catalog.

Draper and Sarah Collection and Papers was received in four separate accessions and the collection has been origanized by acession year.

Series 1: 1997 Accession includes original editorial cartoons by Burt Thomas, Hy Lewis, and other artists, rough sketches by Draper Hill, velox reproductions and tear sheets of editorial cartoons by Draper Hill, and clippings.

Series 2: 2007 Accession features a valise owned by Joseph Keppler and an original James Gillray sketchbook.

Series 3: 2009 Accession contains materials on Joesph Keppler that was obtained or compiled by Draper Hill.

Series 4: 2017 Accession contains mainly cartoon research materials gathered and used by Draper Hill. In addition, there are sketches, roughs, reproductions of Hill's works, clippings, correspondence and material related to the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC). This series is preliminarily arranged and has been rehoused in approximately the same order as it was received in 2017.