The Julie L. Negron Papers contains original art, clippings proof sheets of the comic strip Jenny, The Military Spouse. The collection also contains notes by the strip's creator, Negron, on the creative aspects of writing the strip.

The Ken Muse Collection and Papers is made up of his original art and a series on photographs, clippings, and correspondence containing newspaper clippings, photographs of Ken Muse, and one of him with a Way Out charcter, in addition to letters from sixteen cartoonists in the 1960s.

The Ollie Harrington Collection and Papers includes original published cartoons, along with roughs, sketchbooks and other archival materials.

The Peanuts Merchandise and Products Collection consists of toys, t-shirts, pinbacks, and other materials featuring characters from the "Peanuts" comic strip by Charles Schulz. Many of the contents are ephemeral in nature or were single-item gifts.

The types of materials in the collection are all physical pieces of original cartoon art, pamphlets, postcards, rough drafts, correspondence, chapters from books he submitted his work for, as well as adverts, personal achievements, and book editions containing his work. New acquisitions to the collection are expected.

The small manuscript collection consists of materials related to cartoon and comic history. Many of the contents are ephemeral in nature or were single-item gifts. The collection is ongoing and new materials will be added regularly.

This collection contains 11 sketchbooks of the various comic strip titles by Leonard Starr. Also included in this collection are figure sketches by the artist and a portrait of his wife Betty by the cartoonist Abner Dean.

This collection contains one Sydney syndicate sales kit, Sydney proofs dating from 1985-1986, and Sydney paper copies and veloxes also dating from 1985-1986. Sketches for The Buckets are also present as well as newspaper clippings and personal correspondences. One Certificate of Appreciation from the Epilepsy Society of Arizona from 1990 is available within the collection along with one Sketchbook Newslater from the Mid-South Cartoonists Association. Original art donated by Scott Stantis has been separated and cataloged at the item level in the Original Art Database. Original Art by Scott Stantis can also be found in the Original Art Database.

The primary holdings are extensive collections of original drawings, proofs, and tear sheets of Milton Caniff's comic strips and illustrations, audio/visual materials, correspondence files, business accounts, research files, awards, scrapbooks, and realia. The collection has significant holdings of original art and reproductions of Mister Gilfeather, The Gay Thirties, Dickie Dare, Terry and the Pirates, Male Call, Steve Canyon, and illustrations done for the Columbus Dispatch and the Associated Press.

The Correspondence series includes letters to and from Milton Caniff from fans, cartoonists, business associates, family members, and friends. Also included are correspondence and materials regarding organizations and clubs with which Milton Caniff was associated, publicity materials, and articles by and about Milton Caniff.

The Research Material series includes clipping files from magazines and newspapers, film stills and programs, model airplanes, informational publications, and military items used as reference by Caniff for his comic strips and other projects he undertook such as United States armed forces insignia designs.

The Business Records series contains bank statements, syndicate statements, income tax information, cancelled checks, check stubs, ledgers, bills, expense lists, drafts of wills, subscription notices, and household inventories.

The Photographs series includes photographs of Milton Caniff at chalk talks, in his studio, at personal appearances, at his home, and with organizations, family members, and cartoonists.

The Awards series includes awards, citations, proclamations, and certificates given to Milton Caniff from various organizations.

The Memorabilia and Merchandise series contains personal effects of Milton Caniff, Esther Parsons Caniff, and John Caniff, Milton Caniff's father; merchandise for comic strips Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon, and art and office supplies.

The Audio/Visual Material series includes promotion and personal film reels, Steve Canyon television show reels, Terry and the Pirates radio broadcasts, slides, and audio casette tapes.

The Scrapbook series contains scrapbooks with material and artwork for Milton Caniff's 75th birthday, newspaper clippings and publicity, awards and citations, personal photographs, and original artwork by Milton Caniff and Noel Sickles.

The Brad Anderson Collection and Papers contains Anderson's early workls such as childhood drawings and art completed as a student at Syracuse University. Much of the biographical information and creation of Marmaduke can be found in Series 2: Interviews, profiles and drawings. Also included are early cartoons strios, magazine cartions, and work done during his advertising career in the 1950s. Publications, including clippings, proofs, and tearsheets, in which his work appeared can also be found throughout the collection.

A significant portion of the collection is devoted to Anderson's work on Marmaduke, including information project files, sketches, roughs, notes and gag ideas, posters, books, and merchandise. Over 14,000 original Marmaduke comic strips can be found in the original art database, along with other art by Anderson, or owned by him. Also includes is correspondence with syndicates, publishers, and fan mail. Of particular interest, is Series 7 which documents Anderson's (and Marmaduke's) philathropic work and Series 8, appearance aschool visits document the many talks Anderson gave at schools and to community groups.

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The George Levine Papers consists mainly of original cartoon drawings (ink on paper) for publication in magazines, clippings of printed versions of cartoons, and miscellaneous papers and documents related to his career as cartoonist. Includes issues of Cartoonist profiles, Notes plus, The Bridgehead sentinel, and 1st Infantry Division 34th Anniversary commemorative publication, all containing cartoons by Levine; includes documents related to payments for cartoons and letters requesting permission to reprint his works; includes letters from Maj.Gen. C.T. Lanham, Brig.Gen. J.F.R. Seitz, Lt.Gen. John E. Dahlquist, Lt.Gen. F.W. Milburn, Lt.Gen. C.R. Huebner, and Col. Robert V. Shinn; also includes issue of his cartoon book You better believe .

Includes the following documents related to his membership in the National Cartoonist Society: application for membership, biography submitted by Levine to the NCS in his handwriting, two handwritten notes from Kevin [McVey] (both include drawings by McVey), a letter of acceptance into the NCS from John Cullen Murphy, president (1981), and two NCS new member lists (1982 and 1983); includes news clippings and book reviews related to his works You better believe it and Here comes the honeywagon; includes copy of the Pat-on-the-back award certificate given to him by the U.S. Army in 1951; includes an advertisement for his cartoon Senator Caucus and two related magazine articles.

Also includes six photographs dated 1940 through 1987, a handwritten letter to Lucy S. Caswell, curator of the Library for Communication and Graphic Arts of The Ohio State University which contains biographical notes and a New York Times (July 22 1978) obituary for Maj. Gen. Charles Lanham.

The collection contains material documenting Jim Borgman's career as an editorial cartoonist and as cartoonist of the comic strips, Wonk City and Zits. Included in this collection is correspondence from fans, friends, other cartoonists, and King Features Syndicate. In addition there are articles and clippings about Borgman, examples of awards, memorabilia, notes, and sketches. There is also a siginficant collection of proofs and clippings of his editorial cartoons from 1976 to 2004 and photocopies and roughs of the Zits strip.

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.

This collection contains tearsheets, Sunday comic section reprints, and newspaper comic sections. Many titles are American comic strips that have been translated into another language.

This collection contains, roughs, proofs, photostats, tearsheets, and scripts for the comic strips Wings Winfair and his 'Round the Wrold Flight- by Lyndell and This Wonderful World that appeared in Gulf Funny Weekly, a free comic book available at Gulf Oil Company filling stations.

The collection includes examples of DeCarlo's work, primarily on Archie characters and stories. Other featured characters in the collection include Scooby-Doo, Elvira, and Sabrina the Teenage Witch. The collection primarily consists of prints and photocopies of pages of DeCarlo's work. Other items in the collection include advertising materials, reference pages, photographs, sketchbooks, and sketches.

The Elmer Woggon Collection contains original comic strips by various artists and tearsheets of initial promotions for the "Big Chief Wahoo" comic strip.

This collection contains personal correspondence, tearsheets, newspaper articles, and original comic art by Jack Ziegler. A large part of this collection consitsts of tearsheets from The New Yorker from 1974 to 2015.

This collection contains documents, articles, and photograph photocopies related to Harry Hershfield and artist Bert Levy. The collection also includes memorabilia related to Hershfield's best known comic strip Abie the Agent and biographical information for Hershfield and his close friend, Max Sax. Other photocopies include articles and photographs related to Australian artist, Bert Levy, best known for creating the comic strip "This Way Out."

This small collection includes proofs of "Sherlocko," "Captain and the Kids," "Hawkshaw the Detective," and "Main Street." In addition to sketch and composition books by Mager, photographs, and copies of the magazine "Outdoor Life" in which Mager wrote and illustrated the column "Game Gimmicks."

Original art by Gus Mager has been separated and cataloged in the Original Art Database.

This small collection contains products and promotional items featuring Marc Bell's artwork. Materials included in the collection are stickers, pin backs, flyers, promotional cards, compact disc, and LP records.

The collection is made up of original art, comic book pencil stats, proofs, articles, records, pencils, sketches, roughs, t-shirts, and archive materials such as scripts and clippings.

The collection includes examples of Hollander’s graphic design and illustration work and it contains many sketchbooks, idea notebooks and files of original cartoon art and proofs for her pioneering feminst comic strip 'Sylvia'. The papers include examples of her work for organizations and journals and proofs for her anthology collections of ‘Sylvia’ as well as her popular cat books. Also included are copies of reviews and interviews with Hollander about her work. There is personal correspondence, 'Sylvia' fan mail and letters from other cartoonists.

The collection contains Hollander's business correspondence and records associated with the self syndication of ‘Sylvia’ and her work for the greeting cards companies, Maine Line and Recycled Paper Products. The scripts and promotional material for the theatrical production ‘Sylvia’s Real Good Advice’ are here, including the bathrobe used in the show. There is correspondence related to the proposed animation of 'Sylvia' and the collections contains some merchandise and photographs including some of 'Sylvia look alike' events. The papers also include records of Hollander's speaking engagements and albums of 35 mm slides she used in her many presentations.

This collection is primarily the research materials documenting the life of pioneering Black cartoonist Jackie Ormes amassed by collector and biographer Nancy Goldstein, who heavily annotated these gathered materials. Ormes was the first Black woman cartoonist with a nationally-distributed comic strip in the United States.

The collection includes Jackie Ormes’ personal files and family photos, correspondence between Goldstein and others about Ormes, a 287-page FBI file on Ormes, rare eight-page color comic sections from the Pittsburgh Courier that include Ormes’ adventure strip Torchy in Heartbeats, as well as strips by other cartoonists centered around Black life and characters. Of major significance in the collection is an original Patty-Jo doll produced by the Terri Lee Company in the late 1940s, based on Jackie Ormes’ single panel cartoon Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger which ran from 1945-1956.

This collection contains 63 Hallmarks greeting cards and 2 postcards. 4 "Women of Substance" figurines are also in the collection.

The Rick Parker Collection and Papers contain the script, book proofs, contract between author Stefan Petrucha and illustrator Rick Parker for the Papercutz Slices #5: The Farting Dead, which is a parody of The Walking Dead story. The collection also includes a pair of pants worn by Rick Parker while drawing The Farting Dead, that have been signed and contain an illustration.

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.

The Original Art Series contains original art, text, roughs, storyboard, and scripts for the graphic novels, Mischiefl In The Forest: A Yarn Yarn, The Minimum Security Chronicles: Resistance to Ecocide, and As The World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do To Stay In Denial by Stephanie McMillan. The original artwork is fully cataloged in the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Original Art Database

The Drafts, Tearsheets, Clippings, and Ephemera Series contains assorted material related to the graphic novel, her illustration career, and comic strips.

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'.