The first acquisition on this collection consists of assorted comics publications and is made up of a selection of materials from El Vibora Comix followed by a few independent publications. These items are not complete issues and may be promotional items. These are assorted comics publications collected by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly. The second acquisition consists of archival materials regarding the work of Spiegelman and Mouly. These items have been preliminarily arranged and mostly consist of books, edits, press, and promotional material for Raw, Maus, Little Lit, Raw Junior/Toon Books, In the Shadow of No Towers, The Wild Party, and The New Yorker. There are also materials about and by Spiegelman. New material may be added to the collection in the future.

This small collection containing tearsheets and scrapbooks of clippings of published cartoon by Schus. The collection includes sketches, photographs, drawings Schus made for family and friends, and notes about the material by Schus's daughter, Stephanie Schus Rusin. Original art by Adolph Schus has been separated and cataloged at the item level in the Original Art Database.

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 printouts of 20 interviews conducted by Paul Morton with various comics creators for a number of online platforms, with dates ranging from 2006-2023. Interview subjects Ted Rall, Tim Fish, Jason Lutes, Jules Feiffer, Steve MacIsaac, David Small, Justin Hall, Gene Luen Yang, Shaun Tan, Craig Thompson, Joe Sacco, Scott McCloud, Daniel Clowes, Adrian Tomine, Lisa Hanawalt, Ben Katchor, Ben Delisle, James Sturm, George Takei and Nick Drnaso are in conversation with Morton for online publications Econo, Bookslut, The New Gay, The Millions, and Full Stop. In an effort to preserve these exchanges and the perspectives they provide, Morton donated this material to the Billy Ireland in 2025.

The collection contains newsletters, newpapers, and correspondence through two newletters sponsored by the Screen Cartoonists Guild: "Top Cel" and "The Animator"

The A. Lovell Elliott Collection features autographs of cartoonists such as Stan Drake, creator of Blondie, Hank Ketcham, creator of Dennis the Menace, Brad Anderson, creator of Marmaduke, Chester Gould, creator of Dick Tracy, American artist and illustrator, James Montgomery Flagg and several other cartoonists. Many of the autographs also include a small sketch.

This collection contains comic strip proposals including L'il Angel Kate and Neurodog, promotional materials for Broom Hilda, and correspondence with syndicates. In addition, the collection contains manuscripts of novels, poems, plays, correspondence relating to publication, reviews from critics, photographs and other personal material. Some notable titles include Plato and Darrell, Gard, "Meegan's Game", and "A Nickel for Picasso".

The Glencora "Glen" Ketchum Collection focuses on her career as a cartoonists. The majority of the materials are tearsheets and clippings of Ketchum's Mayme the Manicurist comics, a one panel feature about palm-reading. There is biographical information provided her family and a print out of an entry for Allan Holtz's "Stripper's Guide," in addition to photographs of the artist in the late 1920s. The collection also includes a set of artists' tools used by the Ketchum.

This small collection contains the work and photographs of American cartoonist, George Lichty. This collection features personal photographs of George Lichty and other contemporaries, artwork detailing his artistic career from an embossed notebook, and 2 advertisements featuring artwork and cartoons designed by Lichty.

The Charles Ardovino Collection mostly contains original art and clippings of his comic strip "Nixxxies" from 1943 to 1947. There is a photocopied booklet of cartoons he created that ran in the "Upton Nooz," the official publication of Camp Union (New York) from 1941 to 1944. In addition, the collection contains photographs of Mr. Ardovino, biographical clippings, and an example of his work for Saks Fifth Avenue.

The Raeburn Van Buren Papers is comprised of correspondence written by fans of Abbie an' Slats. The materials date from 1937 to 1954.

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.

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.