Stuart A. Copans Papers
SPEC.CGA.SAC
Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections
9.8 Cubic feet
(8 boxes)
2000-2017
Stuart Copans has published and been published in numerous books and textbooks in subjects relating to addiction, alcoholism, recovery, discovery, depression, adolescence, and healing. As an artist, Stuart's talents lie in paper-cutting and creating cartoons, often in the form of single-panel with dialogue or small booklets made from a folded piece of paper. 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.
1 flat box; 5 record carton boxes; 2 letter document box
English
Copans, Stuart A. Copans
Arrangement of Materials
The materials are mostly organized chronologically by year and located in labeled folders.
Preferred Citation
[identification of item],[Box Number/ Folder Number], Stuart Copans Papers, SPEC.CGA.SAC, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, Ohio State University
Acquisitions Information
CGA.SAC.: Stuart Copans, 2009-2017
Access to Materials
Materials in this collection are available for use, but may be used in the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum reading room only.
Use of Materials
Materials in this collection may be protected by copyright, and are made available for research and educational purposes. In general, the OSU Libraries do not own the copyright for materials from our collections and cannot grant copyright permissions for these materials. The user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status. If copyright protection applies, permission must be obtained from the copyright holder to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exceptions to the law. Works in the public domain are not protected by copyright and do not require permission to use.
Processing Information
Joshua Fischer, April 2017; Haley Simpson, December 2017
Biographical Note
Stuart Copans is a practicing psychiatrist in Brattleboro, Vermont. His focus is in Addiction and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. He has published and been published in numerous books and textbooks in relevent subjects relating to addiction, alcoholism, recovery, discovery, depression, adolescence, and healing.
As an artist, Stuart's talents lie in paper-cutting and creating cartoons, often in the form of single-panel with dialogue or small booklets made from a folded piece of paper. His cartoons were submitted and often included, even in the design of covers for the textbooks he contributed towards creating.
Scope and Contents
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.
Comic books, strips, etc
Cartoon Umbrella From NCS Annual Meeting in California; Design Sheets; Hebrew Names
SAC 1
1
2000
AACAP Meeting Cards; Sketch Pad
SAC 1
2
2000
Business Cards; Postcards; Comic Illustrations
SAC 1
3
2000
Brattleboro Retreat Calendar; Poster; Agreement; Book Review; Comic Illustrations; Pamphlet
SAC 1
4
2000
Quotations; AACAP Illustrations; Rough Draft for AACAP Newsletter; Competition Cartoons
SAC 1
5
2000
Survival Guide for the 47th Annual AACAP Meeting; AACAP News; Organizational & Occupational Psychiatry
SAC 1
6
2000
Adolescent Group Outlines
SAC 1
7
2000
Correspondence
SAC 1
8
2000
Calendar 1989 Negatives/Prints
SAC 1
9
1989
To: Roy Copans c/o Prita
SAC 1
10
2000
Stu's Drawings
SAC 1
11
2000
ADHD Studies
SAC 1
12
2000
Moving
SAC 1
13
2000
Section One: To Move or Not to Move?
SAC 1
14
2000
The Adolescent Depression Workbook Manuscript
SAC 1
15
2000
Chapters Related to Child Psychiatry
SAC 1
16
2000
Transmission Reports and Becoming a Rural Psychiatrist
SAC 1
17
2000
Journal Cookbook - Therapeutic Journal Writing
SAC 1
18
2000
The Journal Cookbook - A Tool and Resource Book for Therapeutic Journal Writing
SAC 1
19
2000
Original Stories and Comics; Tree of Life Illustration
SAC 1
20
2000
Original Art and Comics
SAC 1
21
2000
Original Art and Comics
SAC 1
22
2000
Final Draft of "Loosening the Grip" w/o Illustrations in Box 1 Folder "Papers to be Kept L Caswell"
SAC 1
23
2000
Letters; Correspondence; Pamphlets; Periodicals
SAC 1
24
2000
Herbert's Thursdays
SAC 1
25
2000
Children of Migratory Parents
SAC 1
26
2000
Immigrant and Refugee Children
SAC 1
27
2000
Exaggerated Features
SAC 1
28
2000
Retirement Cards; Illustrations; Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review; Aftercare
SAC 1
29
2000
How to Avoid the Evil Eye
SAC 1
30
2000
Hx of Q
SAC 1
31
2000
The Power of Humor - Outline of Talk
SAC 1
32
2000
Brattleboro Retreat
SAC 1
33
2000
Illustrations and Borders
SAC 1
34
2000
Postcards; Poems; Descriptors; Pocketbook Photocopies
SAC 1
35
2000
Pictorial CDI
SAC 1
36
2000
Aliana
SAC 1
37
2000
Letters; Correspondence; Illustrations; Business Cards; Name Tags
SAC 1
38
2000
Quotations for the New Year
SAC 1
39
2000
A Rainy Monday
SAC 1
40
2000
Curriculum Vitae; Immigrant and Refugee Children; Thomas Singer Letter of Recommendation
SAC 1
41
2000
Section Illustrations
SAC 2
1
2000
Rough Drafts for Lucy Caswell
SAC 2
2
2000
J. WK Book
SAC 2
3
2000
Cartoons - 2 Sided
SAC 2
4
2000
Periodicals
SAC 2
5
2000
Wiley Author's Questionnaire; Rough Drafts; University of Vermont Symposium
SAC 2
6
2000
In the Beginning; Helmut Schumann Fellowship; Herbert's Thursdays by Samuel Aarons; Introduction To Mother Poem; Various Small Pamphlets and Comics
SAC 2
7
2000
Textbook Comic Illustrations with Locations, Chapter 1 and 13 Drafts; Postcards; Letters; Correspondence
SAC 2
8
2000
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Agreement; Exercises 5 and 6 etc.
SAC 2
9
2000
Option I - Direct Illustrations of Section Topics
SAC 2
10
2000
CGA.SAC.2016
SAC 2
11
2016
Chapter 1, 3, 7, and 11
SAC 2
12
2000
Stu - Chapter 8
SAC 2
13
2000
Chapter 14
SAC 2
14
2000
Chapter 14, 15, and 16
SAC 2
15
2000
Psychiatric Cartoons
SAC 2
16
2000
"Bill the Booky" Cartoon Art; The Parenting's Booklet
SAC 2
17
2000
Postcards; Pamphlets; Periodicals; Museum Correspondence
SAC 2
18
2000
Comic Submission Forms - With Comics; Chapter 4, 2, and 10
SAC 2
19
2000
Pocket Day Timers; Postcards; Pamphlets; Illustrations; Graphic Artists Guild - Thirty Years of Raising Standards; Periodicals; Journey Through Job Loss
SAC 2
20
2000
Rough Draft of a Cartoon for a Friend who was Retiring
SAC 2
21
2000
The National Jewish Monthly
SAC 2
22
2000
American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Correspondence and Comics; Original Artwork
SAC 2
23
2000
Rough Drafts for Cover - New Edition - Loosening the Grip 11/22/98, Your Journey Through Job Loss
SAC 2
24
1998
Advert; Periodical; There's Nothing Funny About Managed Care; Vermont Psychiatric Association
SAC 2
25
2000
Loosening the Grip Sixth Edition; Kinney Cover Illustrations
SAC 2
26
2000
Albert Schweitzer Institute for the Humanities Correspondence; McGraw-Hill Form; Your Journey Through Job Loss
SAC 2
27
2000
Project Cork Institute - Chapter 3 (Old Chapter 5)
SAC 2
28
2000
Israel
SAC 3
1
2000
Loosening the Grip Sixth Edition Cover
SAC 3
2
2000
1975 Mercury Montego MX Adverts
SAC 3
3
2000
Chapter 1
SAC 3
4
2000
Chapter 2
SAC 3
5
2000
Chapter 2 Stu
SAC 3
6
2000
Chapter 3 (Old Chapter 5)
SAC 3
7
2000
Chapter 4 - Stu
SAC 3
8
2000
Chapter 5 - Stu
SAC 3
9
2000
Chapter 6 Stu
SAC 3
10
2000
Chap 7
SAC 3
11
2000
Chapter 8
SAC 3
12
2000
Chapter 9
SAC 3
13
2000
Chapter 10
SAC 3
14
2000
Chapter 11
SAC 3
15
2000
Chapter 12
SAC 3
16
2000
Comic Submission Forms
SAC 3
17
2000
Comic Submission Forms - With Comics
SAC 3
18
2000
Comic Submission Forms - With Comics
SAC 3
19
2000
Comic Submission Forms - With Comics
SAC 3
20
2000
Stuart Copans AATH February 2, 2002 Talk on Uses of Visual Humor
SAC 4
1
2002
Cards
SAC 4
2
2002
Psychiatric Cartoons
SAC 4
3
2002
The Journal CookBook
SAC 4
4
2002
To Do
SAC 4
5
2002
Loosening the Grip 1995 Edition
SAC 4
6
1995
Loosening the Grip 1995 Edition
SAC 4
7
1995
Chapter and Information on Drugs
SAC 4
8
2002
Cartoons; Periodicals
SAC 4
9
2002
Periodical; Articles; Photo + Form
SAC 4
10
2002
Freud Talk
SAC 4
11
2002
Writers Union
SAC 4
12
2002
Letters; Card; Business Card
SAC 4
13
2002
Jewish Art
SAC 4
14
2002
Cartoons
SAC 4
15
2002
Illustration Proposals for a Book; Stamps
SAC 4
16
2002
Comic Art for Loosening the Grip; Correspondence
SAC 4
17
2002
Periodicals; Comics; A Yuletide Delectation
SAC 4
18
2002
S.A.S ea
SAC 4
19
2002
Originals
SAC 4
20
2002
Misc Cartoons
SAC 4
21
2002
Comics
SAC 4
22
2002
NCS
SAC 4
23
2002
Quotation Cards
SAC 4
24
2002
Forms; Comic Cards; Art
SAC 4
25
2002
Who's the Pt Here
SAC 4
26
2002
Adverts; Watercolors; Inks & Etchings
SAC 4
27
2002
Comics; Brattleboro Reformer
SAC 4
28
2002
Comics; Periodicals; Publications; Adverts; Poster; Tourist Map of Israel
SAC 4
29
2002
Mapping Memory 2001
SAC 4
30
2002
The Adolescent Depression WorkBook
SAC 4
31
2002
Alcohol Use and its Medical Consequences
SAC 4
32
2002
Small Illustrated Comics; Wooden Letter Opener
SAC 5
1
2006
The Jewish Calendar 5737 1976-1977
SAC 5
2
1976-1977
APA Rural Caucus Newsletter; Shirver Center Abstracts; A Yuletide Delectation; AOOP Bulletin
SAC 5
3
2006
National Jewish Monthly
SAC 5
4
1973
Umbrella
SAC 5
5
2001
Convergence
SAC 5
6
2006
Menorah
SAC 5
7
1984
Loosening the Grip
SAC 5
8
2006
Rough Draft; Published Cartoons; Etc.
SAC 5
9
2006
Art; Comics; AACAP Publications; Stories; The Invisible Illness
SAC 5
10
2006
Art; Comic; Periodicals; Correspondence; AACAP Annual Report 2005
SAC 5
11
2005
Comic; Quotation Book Drafts
SAC 5
12
2006
Notes for Illustrated Book - Bridges
SAC 5
13
2006
Comic Art & Books; Loosening the Grip
SAC 5
14
2006
Loosening the Grip Comic Drafts; Correspondence; Posters
SAC 5
15
2006
Strike Rough Draft Comics for NWU; Comic Booklets; Quotations; AACAP Publications
SAC 5
16
2006
Publications; Comic Art; A Pathway to Peace Booklets
SAC 5
17
2006
A Pathway to Peace Booklet and Design
SAC 5
18
2006
Letters and Correspondence
SAC 5
19
2006
Forms; Comics; Articles; Publications; Periodicals
SAC 5
20
2006
AACAP Annual Report 2003
SAC 5
21
2003
Designs; Stamps
SAC 5
22
2006
A Pathway to Peace Drafts
SAC 5
23
2006
5 Little Cartoon Books and their Rough Drafts
SAC 5
24
2006
The Adolescent Depression WorkBook
SAC 5
25
2006
CGA.SAC.2009 Accession Form; Thoughts on Marriage; Art and Life Quotation Booklets; Brattleboro Reformer 2000
SAC 5
26
2000
CGA.SAC.2009 Accession Form; Correspondence; Comic Art; I'm Changing the Locks and Cementing the Windows Book Draft; AOOP Newsletter Rough Draft
SAC 5
27
2009
CGA.SAC.2010.2 Rough Draft: Chapter 4, Etiology of Alcohol Dependence; Challenge of Moving: A Guide for Men, Women, and Children (Cartoon Photocopies)
SAC 5
28
2010
CGA.SAC.2010.3 Rough Draft of Verses for Coll. Book; Accession Form; Cartoons for 10th Edition of Loosening the Grip; Booklets
SAC 5
29
2010
CGA.SAC.2011 In Praise of Failure and Disorder Booklet; Loosening the Grip 10th Edition Notes; Soul and Body Know Their Brands; Television Drug Commercial Blues; Adolescent Non-Verbal Communication; Comics
SAC 5
30
2011
CGA.SAC.2014 Envelope of Photocopies of Drawings/Rough Draft for Publications on Substance Abuse by Stuart Copans
SAC 5
31
2014
CGA.SAC.2015 Beginning of Work GN "How to Avoid The Evil Eye" Publser St. Martius; Make Nothing Happen Booklets; Comics; Letter Correspondence; Paper Snakes
SAC 5
32
2015
Make Nothing Happen - 2015
SAC 5
33
2015
Cartoons for 11th Edition
SAC 5
34
2016
Textbook Comics - 2016-2
SAC 5
35
2016
Meeting Agendas; Comic; Takodah Times; Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Defender + Raising a Reader; AACAP Comics; Vietnam and Cambodia 2013 Poems and Proverbs
SAC 5
36
2016
CGA.SAC.2010 4 Items; Accession Form; Correspondence from Sarah B. Hill of McGraw-Hill; 1st Cartoon in a Series for Newsletter; The Commons Vol. 1 No. 3 April 6, 2006 Issue - See pg. 4; Comic; Loosening the Grip Ninth Edition Cover
SAC 6
1
2010
An Ilustrated Guide to the Fauna of the Brattleboro Retreat
SAC 6
2
1978
Loosening the Grip Ninth Edition Book
SAC 7
1
2009
Loosening the Grip Tenth Edition Book
SAC 7
2
2012
Response - A Contemporary Jewish Review Issue of the Arts Spring 1972 (#13)
SAC 7
3
1972
Response - A Contemporary Jewish Review Book Number 16 Winter 1972-73
SAC 6
4
1972-1973
The Jewish Calendar 5736 1975-76
SAC 7
5
1975-1976
Roughs and finished pieces; tearsheets
SAC 7
6
1983-2016
Acquisitions Information
CGA.2017.068: Stuart A. Copans, 2017
Rough drafts and cartoons for Camp Takodah Times newletter
SAC 7
7
2017
Finished Sketches
SAC 8
1
2004-2017
Angry Adolescents
SAC 8
2
1990
Letter Head
SAC 8
3
Undated
Original Cartoons
SAC 8
4
Undated
Vermont Proverbs
SAC 8
5
2006
Prayers for Peace
SAC 8
6
2017
Artwork in Booklets
SAC 8
7
1996; 2010; 2015