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 collection contains correspondence, magazine layouts, camera ready copy, articles, zines, photostats, tear sheets, 16mm films and costumes.

Artist Sandy Plunkett donated the collection to BICLM in 2015 and it includes correspondence between Ivie and Plunkett spanning the years from the late 1970s to the mid 2000s. Other correspondence dates from the 1950s to the 1970s and is mostly between Ivie and various aspiring young cartoonists. It includes examples of their work and some photographs of them in superhero costumes modeling for gesture drawing poses. The collection contains blueprints for Ivie's 1967 fanzine 'Monsters and Heroes' and correspondence from fans about the magazine. The draft and camera-ready copy for Ivie's unpublished, 'The History of the Comic Book', plus the correspondence with Nostalgia Press from the mid 1970s about the book's publication, are also here.

The collection contains some Superman related material including photographs of 'Superman Day', in Metropolis, Illinois from January 1972 as well as zines, indexes, photostats, and clippings that Ivie collected about other cartoonists and on comics related topics.

Ivie collected comic books widely and this collection contains his extensive gathering of golden age comic book stories. There are many tear sheets mostly from the 1940s of over forty story titles.

Ivie shot many amateur superhero films. The collection contains thirty-seven 16mm home movies shot between the late 1950s and the early 1970s. They include titles such as Superman, Rocketman, Flash Gordon, Batman, Captain Marvel, Frankenstein, and Captain America. The collection also includes handmade costumes Ivie created for these home movies including a Batman, a Robin, two Superman and two Captain America costumes.