The Shel Dorf Collection includes tearsheets and clippings of daily and Sunday comic strips, interviews and correspondence with cartoonists and about San Diego Comic-Con and other conventions, articles on comics, cartoonists, and popular culture, photographs, promotional material, merchandise, and memorabilia. This collection is minimally processed and is largely in the order in which it was received from the donor. There are gaps in the box numbering due to materials that were removed by the donor.

The King Features Syndicate Collection contains comic strips, puzzles, and games distributed by King Features. The comic strip proofs are high quality reproductions of the preliminary version published by the syndicate meant for newspapers. They are often printed on glossy paper with extra-wide margins. Comic strip features are printed are printed by the week (dailies), while Sunday features are often printed on a single page. The proofs are an important resource to researchers and publishers, especially when the originals no longer exist or are unavailable.

The Cartoons and Comics Stamps Collection includes postal stamps featuring popular comic strip characters such as Peanuts, Blondie, Dick Tracy, and others. There are new accessions expected.

The contents of this collection contain letters from fans and numerous correspondance with cartoonists who contributed to the magazine. The Dorothy McGreal Papers also contains magazines from the 1960s the 1970s, featuring comic content that contains refrence material collected by Dorothy McGreal for research. There are partial and some issues of WOCA, but not a complete run of the magazine. There is also substantial information related to subscriptions and billing for WOCA

This collection from Michael T. Gilbert contains the papers and original art from the American comic book artist and writer who is best known for creating the comic book "Doc Stearn...Mr. Monster." Audiovisual materials containing interviews, discussion panels, and front cover artwork are available as well as correspondence, newspaper articles,editorials, and other related papers. This collection also includes color notes and panels, rough draft and final panel sketches, artwork, proofs, and original cover layouts. Additional items include textiles such as a character sweater and shirt and memorabilia from a crossover contract with DC.

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.

This collecton contains original newspaper clippings of the comic strip Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller ranging from January 1992 to December 2017. The collection also contains some personal correspondence, newspaper articles, and selected original sketches and artwork by Wiley Miller.

The collection contains numerous tearsheets of Buck Rogers comic strips as well as collections of newspapers comic sections in both black-&-white and color, and other comic tearsheets. It also contains items relating to the acquisition of this collection from E.R Seger and the status of the comics he collected. There is also other ephemera related to Buck rogers and publishing, such as a copy of speech given by one of Buck Rogers creators, as well as a copy of a fanzine talking about Buck Rogers. Also some copies of comics made by Dick Calkins other then Buck Rogers The materials are dated 1929-2005 with the bulk of the materials from 1929-1983.

This collection contains the personal correspondence, original drawings, notes/reference, clippings, and publications from Hal Rammel. This collection also includes sketchbooks containing artwork from his best known comic work Conversations in the Aether.

This collection includes five notebooks containing Leonard Starr's scripting notes (done as word balloons) and some layouts from his time working on the "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip in the late 1980s early 1990s. Also included is Leonard Starr's membership certificate from the National Cartoonists Society.

The collection includes examples of Mills' work with the focus predominantly on her most famous strip, Miss Fury. This includes a syndicate advertisement for the strip, photographs of the title character painted on the sides of planes during World War II, and newspaper tearsheets of the strip. The collection also includes photocopies of some of these materials. Tearsheets and photocopies of tearsheets of La Panthère Noire, the French version of Miss Fury published in Montréal's Photo-Journal, are also included in the collection. Other materials in the collection include photocopies of Mills' other strip, Daredevil Barry Finn, photocopies of Mills' estate paperwork, and a letter from Archival Press Inc. about the delivery of a limited edition Miss Fury book.

This collection includes correspondence, photographs, canceled checks and other documents related to Oliver Herford. It also includes original works of art by Herford and others, including notable cartoonists such as James Montgomery Flagg, Rea Irvin, Ellison Hoover, and T. S. Sullivant.

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

The Norman Marsh Collection of Dan Dunn Secret Operative 48, Hunter Keene, and Danny Hale Tearsheets and Proofs contains newspaper clippings, proof sheets, tear sheets, and photocopies of the comic strips Dan Dunn Secret Operative 48, Hunter Keene, and Danny Hale in addition to biographical information on creator, Norman Marsh. The collection mostly contains newspaper clippings of Danny Hale strips from 1947-1962.

Contains clippings from news and popular magazines from the 1980s to the late 2000s. The collection is organized into two series; the first series contains reference clippings; the second series contains objects such as a template used to mark the deminisions of daily Cul-de-Sac strips and a flag with a caricature of Richard C. Thompson printed on it.

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

This collection contains the work of cartoonist, freelance illustrator, and graphic designer, Steve Spencer. Spencer's work in this collection includes clippings, newspaper articles, story illustrations, and comic strip clippings from his work feature in the Ohio State University newspaper publication, The Lantern. Along with these material, outlines and newspaper articles are contained in the collection relating to his controversial comic strip, "I Phelta Thi."

The collection is made up of booklets, pamphlets, clippings, proofs, sketches, and original art by Columbus, Ohio artist, Thomas Crane from organizations such as Ohio State University, Ohio Hardware Association, Nationwide Insurance, Huntington National Bank, Kuenning, and WBNS.

The collection includes examples of Mills' work with the focus predominantly on her most famous strip, Miss Fury. This includes a syndicate advertisement for the strip, photographs of the title character painted on the sides of planes during World War II, and newspaper tearsheets of the strip. The collection also includes photocopies of some of these materials. Tearsheets and photocopies of tearsheets of La Panthère Noire, the French version of Miss Fury published in Montréal's Photo-Journal, are also included in the collection. Other materials in the collection include photocopies of Mills' other strip, Daredevil Barry Finn, photocopies of Mills' estate paperwork, and a letter from Archival Press Inc. about the delivery of a limited edition Miss Fury book.

The collection contains correspondence, photographs, and clippings of of Ted "Mike" Mikos.

The Bill Barrette Collection of Sugamo Prison Exhibition Research Material was created from the "Sugamo Project" to collect drawings and momentos made by inmates and given to the American GI guards. These drawings depicted daily life at the prison and interactions among the Japanese and Americans. Barrette, an artist from New York and younger cousin of one of the former Sugamo guard, worked with Midori Sato and Toyota Naurmi to collect these delicate pencil drawings military veterans in the US, and from the artists Tokio Tobita and Fumio Fujiki in Japan. These drawings and research formed the basis of the exhibition, “Encounters: Sugamo Prison 1945-52; The American Occupation of Japan and Memories of the Asia Pacific War," and scholarly symposium in April 2023.

This collection consists of Bill Barrette's research files used to create the exhibit and symposium. There are notes, correspondence, exhibit labels, research materials of the history of Sugamo Prison and the Allied occupation of Japan after World War II, that were created in the planning of the exhibitions and workshops. Since many of the objects were on loan from U.S. Veterans, photocopies of letters, photographs, and other materials makeup the bulk of the collection. Also included are transcripts and notes Barrette made of conversations with Tobita, Fujiki, and former guards, prison administration files, trial transscripts, photocopies of the Sugamo Shinbun newspaper. The notes of Sugamo Project collaborator, Midori Sato, consisting of notes and translations from the original Japanese to English of the poetry by former prisoners.

The Michael Lerner Collection of MAD Magazine Research, 1951 to 2005, contains articles, television, and radio programs that reference some aspect of Mad Magazine, whether its history, artists, founder, subject matter, or contribution to popular culture. The collection was assembled by Michael Lerner an enthusiast of Mad magazine and popular culture collector.

The collection consists of two series, Audiovisual and Articles. The Audiovisual Series contains segments of television news programs that feature content on Mad Magazine or television programs in which a reference is made to Mad. Also included is the Mad Show Skits that appeared on the Ed Sullivan program in 1966, in addition to several taped episodes of the comedy sketch program Mad TV that aired on FOX in the 1990s. Also in the Audiovisual Series are segements of radion programs in which Mad magazine artists were interviewed or announced the 1992 death of Mad founder William M. Gaines. The material in the Audiovisual Series was recorded by the collection's creator from broadcast programs for his personal research. The material is all magnetic media and is in fair condition. It may need to be evaluted by BICLM for durabilty before being played on a VHS or audiocassette player.

The series Articles in divided into two subseries based on format of the materials and contains articles about Mad magazine or references to Mad magazine, either its artists, creator, or characters (for example many articles show the character Alfred E. Neuman or his catch phrase "What, me worry?"). Information on the articles including title of publication, article title, date, and brief description of subject matter was gathered from a spreadsheet originally compiled by the collection's creator and later provided to BICLM staff. The subseries, Articles in Publications contains intact magazines with the title the publication, followed by the article title in quotations. If known, the page number of the article and a brief description of the subject matter will appear in a scope note for the item. The other subseries, Article Clippings are loose clippings of articles and when possible the publication title, article title, and date have been listed.

The collection contains files created by Joe Szabo in the production of "Witty World" magazine and other publications related to cartoon art. It has been minimally processed at the box level and preliminarly arranged alaphatically by artists' last name, subject matter, and geographic location. The folder titles were named by Szabo. Series 5: Original Art is roughly organized by either subject, artist's name (when avaialble); or by size. These were pieces that lacked enough identifying information to create a record in the original art database.

The Leon Rubin Collection of Milton Caniff Reading Room Files include planning and meeting notes, flyers, brochures, memos, clippings, news articles, and other materials pertaining to programs, initiatives, press and publicity of the cartoon library. Files include information on the First and Second Festivals of Cartoon Art, Walt Kelly's 75th Birthday Celebration, Steve Canyon's retirement, support from the Hearst Foundation, and the library's founding donor, Milton Caniff. Mr. Rubin provided a typed inventory of the files that can be found in the scope and content notes at the folder level.