Related Resources
Related Resources in the Library of Congress
Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
101 Independence Avenue, S.E., Washington DC 20540-4683
- Erwin Swann papers, 1949-1976 (bulk 1968-1973), 10,000 items.
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
101 Independence Avenue, S.E., Washington, DC 20540-4730
- American Cartoon Prints (APP)
About 800 prints, circa 1766-1876.
See collections listing for Cartoon Prints, American
[More information about Cartoon Prints, American] - British Cartoons Collection (PC
1,2,3)
About 10,000 political and social satires and caricatures, 1650-1832.
[Change to: Brief Records, based on the British Museum Catalogs]
[More information about Cartoon Prints, British] - Cabinet of American Illustration
(CAI)
About 4,000 drawings and prints, 1850-1930. Books and magazine illustrations and some graphic designs. - Cartoon Drawings Collection CD1)
About 6,800 drawings, 1840-1986. Political, editorial, and humorous cartoons and caricatures by about 500 artists.
[More information about Cartoon Drawings Collection] - French Political Cartoons (PC5)
About 375 cartoons, 1706-1871. - Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature
About 36,000 cartoons, 1800-2000, bulk 1941 and after. - Herbert L. Block Collection
About 64,000, including more than 14,000 original cartoon drawings for the Chicago Daily News, Newspaper Enterprise Association, and The Washington Post, 1929-2001, bulk 1937-2001. Includes more than 50,000 rough sketches.
Related Collections and Sources Outside the Library of Congress
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- Italian Centre for Comic Art
via Pietro Micca 4
Torino
ITALY
Website for Associazione Italiana Professionisti del Fumetto (Italian Cartoonists Society):
http://www.anonimafumetti.org/Index_af.asp External
Gianfranco Goria's fumetti.org compilation of web sites:
http://www.fumetti.org/ External
Email: cnf@anonimafumetti.org - Athens Cartoon Museum
22 Liossion Street
10438 Athéna
GREECE
tel: 30 1 (210) 5241 492 - Bedeteca de Lisboa
Palácio do Contrador-mor
R. Cidade do Lobito, Olivais Sul
1800 Lisboa
PORTUGAL
tel: 351 (1) 218536676
http://www.bedeteca.com/ External
Email: geral@bedeteca.com - Belgian Centre for Comic Strip Art/Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée
Rue des Sables, 20 / Zandstraat 20
1000 Bruxelles
BELGIUM
tel: 32 (2) 219 19 80
http://www.cbbd.be/ External
Email: visit@cbbd.be or visit@stripmuseum.be - Bowling Green State University Popular Culture Library
Browne Popular Culture Library
4th floor Jerome Library
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403-0600
tel: (419) 372-2450
fax: (419) 372-7996
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/ External
Email: pcldesk@bgsu.edu - British Cartoon Archive (formerly The Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature)
Templeman Library
University of Kent at Canterbury
Canterbury CT2 7NU
UNITED KINGDOM
tel: 44 (1227) 823127
http://library.kent.ac.uk/cartoons/ External
Email: cartoon-centre@ukc.ac.uk - Cartoon Art Museum
655 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
tel: (415) CAR-TOON/(415) 227-8666
http://www.cartoonart.org/ External
Email: office@cartoonart.org - The Cartoon Museum (formerly Cartoon Art Trust)
35 Little Russell Street
London WC1A 2HH
UNITED KINGDOM
tel: 44 (207) 580 8155
http://www.cartoonmuseum.org/ External
Email: info@cartoonmuseum.org - Cartoon Research Library
Ohio State University
023L Wexner
27 West 17th Avenue Mall
Columbus, OH 43210-1393
tel: (614) 292-0538
fax: (614) 292-9101
http://cartoons.osu.edu/index.php External
Email: cartoons@osu.edu - Charles M. Schulz Museum
2301 Hardies Lane
Santa Rosa, CA 95403
tel: (707) 579-4452
fax: (707) 579-4436
http://www.schulzmuseum.org/ External
Email: Inquiries@SchulzMuseum.org - Comic Art Collection, Michigan State University
Special Collections Division
Michigan State University Libraries
East Lansing, MI 48824-1048
tel: (517) 355-3770
http://comics.lib.msu.edu/ External
http://comics.lib.msu.edu/otherlib.htm External (access to other research centers, especially those with comic books)
Email: comics@msu.edu - Comic Arts Collection, Virginia Commonwealth University
James Branch Cabell Library
Special Collections and Archives
901 Park Avenue
P.O. Box 842033
Richmond, VA 23284-2033
tel: (804) 828-1108
fax: (804) 828-0151
http://www.library.vcu.edu/about/special-collections/cabell/comics/ External
Email: libjbcsca@vcu.edu - Comic-Museum
Munsterstr. 7
D-45657 Recklinghausen
GERMANY
tel: 49 (2361) 231 86 - International Comic Strip Festival
http://www.bdangouleme.com/ External - Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center
PO Box 5236
Hoboken, NJ 07030-1510
tel: (201) 963 4383
Email: info@kirbymuseum.org
http://kirbymuseum.org/ External - Karikatur & Cartoon Museum
St. Alban-Vorstadt 28, Postfach
CH-4052 Basel
SWITZERLAND
tel: 41 (61) 61 226 33 60
http://www.cartoonmuseum.ch/ External
Email: info@cartoonmuseum.ch - Karikatür ve Mizah Müzesi (Caricature and Cartoon Museum)
Atatürk Bulvarÿ Kovacÿlar Sokak, No:12
Fatih-Istanbul
TURKEY
tel: 90 (212) 521 1264 - KAMIYUBETSU CARTOON AND COMIC MUSEUM (inside of the Kamiyubetsu Culture Center TOM)
Aza Tondenshigaichi
Kamiyubetsu-cho, Mombetsu-gun
099-6592 Hokkaido
JAPAN - La Maison D'Ailleurs/Museum of Science Fiction
Place Pestalozzi 14, CP
1401 Yverdon-les-Bains
SWITZERLAND
tel: (41) 24 425 64 38
fax: (41) 24 425 65 75
http://www.ailleurs.ch/ External
Email: maison@ailleurs.ch - Museo de la Caricatura
Donceles, 99
Col. Centro Histórico
Mexico City C.P. 06020
MEXICO
52 (5) 5702 9256
fax: 52 (5) 5704 0459
Email: muscar@smc.com.mx - Museo del Forte per la Satira e la Caricatura
Forte di Leopoldo I°
Piazza Garibaldi
Forte dei Marmi (Lucca)
ITALY
tel: 39 (584) 82966
http://www.museosatira.it/ External
Email: info@museosatira.it - Museo Internazionale della Caricatura di Tolentino
Palazzo Sangallo
62029 TOLENTINO (MC)
ITALY
Tel. 39 (733) 969797
http://www.tolentinonline.com/caricatura/home.html External
http://www.tolentinonline.com/inglese/caricatura/home.html External (In English) - Museo do Humor
Casa da Cultura.
Fonte do Campo s/n.
15500 Fene (A Coruña)
SPAIN
Tel.: 34 (81) 34 14 51
fax: 34 (81) 34 24 00
Email: museo-humor@fene-concello.org
http://vello.vieiros.com/museohumor/museo.html External - Musée et Salon International de la Bande Dessinée
121 Rue de Bordeaux
16000 Angoulême
FRANCE
tel: 5 (45) 38 65 65
http://www.citebd.org/ External
Email: cnbdi@cnbdi.fr - Museum House of Humor and Satire
68, Bryanska St.,
P.O.Box 104
5300 Gabrovo
BULGARIA
tel: 359 (66) 807228
fax: 359 (66) 806989
http://www.humorhouse.bg/enindex.html External (In English)
Email: humorhouse@mail.bg - Museum of Black Superheroes
http://www.blacksuperhero.com/ External
(Virtual museum of African American representation in comic books.)
Email: admin@blacksuperhero.com - Museum of Cartoon & Caricature (Muzeum Karykatury)
11 Kozia
00-070 Warszawa
POLAND
tel: 48 (0) 22 827 88 95
fax:+48 (0) 22 827 88 95
http://www.muzeumkarykatury.pl/joomla/en/ External (In English)
Email: info@muzeumkarykatury.pl - Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
594 Broadway, Suite 401
New York, NY 10012
tel: (212) 254-3511
fax: (212) 254-3590
http://www.museumofcomicandcartoonart.org/ External
Email: info@societyillustrators.org - National Archives of Canada
Canadian Museum of Caricature
395 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1A ON3
CANADA
tel: 1 (866) 578-7777
fax: 1 (613) 995-6274
http://www.archives.ca/ External - National Archives of Canada
Visual Heritage Division
550 de la Cité Blvd
Gatineau, Quebec K1A 0N4
CANADA
fax: (819) 934-6810
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/index-e.html External - The National Cartoon Museum
Stamford, CT - Het Nederlands Stripmuseum
Shoppingcentre De Westerhaven
Westerhaven 71
9718 AC Groningen
NETHERLANDS
tel: 31 (50) 317 84 70
http://www.stripmuseumgroningen.nl/ External
Email: receptie@stripmuseumgroningen.nl - The New Zealand Cartoon Archive
Alexander Turnbull Library
P O Box 12349
Wellington
NEW ZEALAND
tel: 64 (4) 474 3154
Email: Pauline.Hannah@natlib.govt.nz
http://www.cartoons.org.nz/ External - Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum
7-65 Mukogawa-Cho
Takarazuka City
Hyogo-Ken, 665-0844
JAPAN
tel: 81 (797) 81 29 70
fax: fax 81 (797) 81 36 60
http://en-f.tezuka.co.jp/tomm/ External (English)
Email: museum@tezuka.co.jp - The Political Cartoon Gallery
32 Store Street
London WC1E 7BS
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel : 44 (207) 580 1114
http://www.politicalcartoon.co.uk/ External
E-mail : info@politicalcartoon.co.uk - Saitama City Cartoon Art Museum
Bonsai-cho 150
Kita-ku
Saitama-ken 331-0805
JAPAN
tel: 81 (48) 6631541
http://www.city.saitama.jp/004/005/002/003/001/index.html External
English description available here. External - South Asian Research Centre for Advertisement, Journalism & Cartoons (SARCAJC)
40 Arjun Marg. DLF Phase one
Gurgaon. Haryana-122002.INDIA
Visit by prior appointment.
http://www.sarcajc.com/ External
Email: sarcajc@hotmail.com - Special Collections Research Center
Bird Library, Room 600
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244-2010
tel: (315) 443-2697
fax: (315) 443-2671
http://library.syr.edu/find/scrc/ External
Email: scrc@syr.edu - Tegneseriemuseet i Danmark (Comics Museum in Denmark)
Fjorddalsvej 3
DK 4400 Kalundborg
DENMARK
tel. 45 (59) 55 32 20
http://www.tegneseriemuseet.dk/index.htm External
(Museum exists as a collection and an online entity, but offers exhibitions through the Kalundborg og Omegns Museum.)
Email: tegnemus@post11.tele.dk - University of Florida, Suzy Covey Comic Book Collection in Special Collections
Department of Special & Area Studies Collections
P.O. Box 117007
208 Smathers Library
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611
tel: (352) 273-2755
fax: (352) 846-2746
Email: special@uflib.ufl.edu
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/belknap/comics/comics.htm External - Wilhelm-Busch-Museum Deutsches Museum fur Karikatur und Kritische Grafik
Georgengarten, 3000
D-30167 Hannover
GERMANY
tel: 49 (511) 16 99 99 - 11 (central)
fax: 49 (511) 16 99 99 - 99
http://www.wilhelm-busch-museum.de/ External
Email: information@wilhelm-busch-museum.de External
Contact form: http://www.wilhelm-busch-museum.de/index.php?pageID=213 External - Virtual Words and Pictures Museum, the comic book art museum, featuring online educational exhibits,
research directories, etc. Has links to other museums, galleries and libraries.
Warning: links have not been maintained and this site has not been updated recently.
Email: info@wordsandpictures.org
Online Resources for Caricature and Cartoon
- American Association of Editorial Cartoonists: http://editorialcartoonists.com/ External
- Arflovers by Craig Yoe: http://arflovers.com/Blog/ External
- The Beat — The News Blog of Comics Culture: http://comicsbeat.com/ External
- Broken Frontier: The Portal for Quality Comics Coverage: http://www.brokenfrontier.com/ External
- Bugpowder: Regular slugs of news for the UK small press nation: http://www.bugpowder.com/ External
- CartooNet: http://www.illustration-agency.com/ External (includes links to European comic art festivals and cartoonists)
- Coconino Classics, unne ressource encyclopedique sur l'histoire de la narration graphique: http://www.old-coconino.com/s_classics_v3/mng_classics.php External Email: redaction@coconino.fr
- Comic Scholars' Discussion List
comix-scholars-request@clas.ufl.edu
Moderated by Department of English, University of Florida. Send single-word message "subscribe" in the *body* of the message, *not* in the subject line; don't use quotation marks, and don't forget to turn off any automatic signatures.
http://web.english.ufl.edu/comics/scholars/ External
(includes links to scholars, institutions and related resources, including digital resources, as well as a list of listservs related to comics) - Comics DC: Blog by Mike Rhode: http://comicsdc.blogspot.com/ External
- Comics Research Bibliography by John Bullough and Mike Rhode http://www.rpi.edu/~bulloj/comxbib.html External
(includes links to other resources relating to cartoons)
Drafts of other bibliographies by Mike Rhode available through Email: mrhode@hotmail.com. - Comic-Strip-Classics: Discussing classic comic strips. To subscribe, Email: majordomo@liss.olm.net (Use with one line of text: SUBSCRIBE COMIC-STRIP-CLASSICS)
- The Comic Strip Project: A Site for Fans and Scholars of Newspaper Comic Strips: http://hometown.aol.com/comicsproj2/tempindex.html External
- The Comics Reporter: Tom Spurgeon's Web Site of Comics News, Review, Interviews and Commentary: http://www.comicsreporter.com/ External
- Comics Research.org: http://comicsresearch.org/ External featuring The Comics Scholarship Annotated Bibliography maintained by Gene Kannenberg, Jr. (includes extensive links to other resources)
- ComixTalk: http://www.comixpedia.com/ External
- Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index: http://cagle.com/ External
- Drawing from Life: Selections of Caricatures and Cartoons from the American Art/Portrait Gallery Library Collection: http://www.sil.si.edu/ondisplay/caricatures/ External
- Drawn: The Illustration and Cartooning Blog: http://drawn.ca/ External
- GoComics Home Page (Universal Uclick): http://www.gocomics.com External
- GutterGeek: The Discontinous Review of the Graphic Narrative: http://www.guttergeek.com/ External
- Hogan's Alley: The Online Magazine of the Cartoon Arts: http://cartoonician.com/ External
- ImageText: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies: http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/ External
- Image & Narrative Online Magazine: http://www.imageandnarrative.be/ External
- International Journal of Comic Art: http://www.ijoca.com/ External
- Journalista: The Comics Journal Weblog: http://www.tcj.com/ External
- Labor Arts: http://www.laborarts.org/ External
- King Features Syndicate - Comics: http://kingfeatures.com/comics/comics-a-z/ External
- King Features Syndicate - Editorial Cartoons: http://kingfeatures.com/comics/editorial-cartoons-a-z/ External
- Mike Lynch Cartoons Blog: http://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/ External
- National Cartoonists Society: http://www.reuben.org/ External
- Phil Nel's Visual Arts Links: http://www.k-state.edu/english/nelp/weblinks/visual_arts_links.html External
- Platinum Age Comics list: http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/PlatinumAgeComics External
- Read about Comics Blog: http://www.readaboutcomics.com/ External
- Society of Illustrators: http://societyillustrators.org/ External
- Stripper's Guide Blog: http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/ External
- Stu's Comic Strip Connection: http://www.stus.com/index2.htm External
- Tribune Media Services - Comics: http://www.tmsfeatures.com/tmsfeatures/maincategory.jsp?catid=37 External
- Tribune Media Services - Editorial Cartoons: http://www.tmsfeatures.com/tmsfeatures/maincategory.jsp?catid=32 External
(Note: If you are a cartoon repository or a content provider and wish to be included on this list, please send an e-mail to: swann@loc.gov)
Selected Bibliography
- Masters of American comics / essay by John Carlin ; with contributions by Stanley Crouch ... [et al.] ; edited by John Carlin, Paul Karasik, and Brian Walker. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2005. NC1426.M34 2005 [P&P]
- Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. The Image of America in Caricature & Cartoon. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, c1976. Call number: E183.A57 1976 [P & P]
- Goulart, Ron, ed. The Encyclopedia of American Comics. New York: Facts on File, 1990. Call number: PN6725.E64 1990 [P&P]
- Harvey, Robert C. Children of the Yellow Kid: The Evolution of the American Comic Strip. Seattle: Frye Art Museum in association with the University of Washington Press, 1998. Call number: PN6725.H38 1998 [P&P]
- Katz, Harry L., ed. Cartoon America: Comic Art in the Library of Congress. New York: Abrams, 2006. NC1427.W18C37 2006 [P & P]
- Katz, Harry L. and Sara W. Duke. "Cartoon-related Research at the Library of Congress." Inks: Cartoon and Comic Art Studies. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, Vol. 1, no. 1, November 1994, pp30-36. Call number: NC1320.I55 [P & P] (Note: A version of this article is available online at: //www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/cartoon_research.html)
- Katz, Harry L. and Sara W. Duke. Featuring the Funnies: One Hundred Years of the Comic Strip. Exhibition catalog, 24pp. [Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, 1998] Call number: PN6705.U5F43 1998 Fol. [P&P]
- Katz, Harry L. and Sara W. Duke. "The Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon at the Library of Congress." Inks: Cartoon and Comic Art Studies. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, Vol. 1, no. 2, May 1994, pp31-33. Call number: NC1320.I55 [P & P]
- Lent, John A. Animation, Caricature, and Gag and Political Cartoons in the United States and Canada: an International Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994. Call number: Z5956.C3L45 1994 [P & P]
- Lent, John A. Cartoonists, Works, and Characters in the United States through 2005: An International Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 2006. Z5956.C3L456 2006 [P & P]
- Lent, John A. Comic Art in Africa, Asia, Australia, and Latin America through 2000: An International Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 2004. Z5956.C3L458 2004
- Lent, John A. Comic Art of Europe through 2000: An International Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 2003. Z5956.C3L46 2003 [P & P]
- Lent, John A. Comic Art of the United States through 2000, Animation and Cartoons: An International Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 2005. Z5956.C3L47 2005 [Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room]
- Lent, John A. Comic Books and Comic Strips in the United States: an International Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994. Call number: Z5956.C6L46 1994 [P & P]
- Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division. Drawing the Iron Curtain: Cold War Cartoons, 1946-1960: a Caroline and Erwin Swann Memorial Exhibition, May 23-August 16, 1996. [Washington, DC]: The Library, [1996]. Call number: D844.L534 1996 [P & P]
- Lordan, Edward J. Politics, Ink: How America's Cartoonists Skewer Politicians, from King George III to George Dubya. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006. E183.L655 2006
- O'Sullivan, Judith. The Art of the Comic Strip. [College Park]: University of Maryland. Department of Art, [1971]. Call number: NC1427.C6308 [P & P]
- O'Sullivan, Judith. The Great American Comic Strip: One Hundred Years of Cartoon Art. Boston: Little, Brown, c1990. Call number: PN6725.O75 1990 [P & P]
- Scott, Randall W. Comic Books and Strips: An Information Sourcebook. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1988. Call number: Z5956.C6S37 1988 [P & P]
- Walker, Brian. The Comics Before 1945. New York: H.N. Abrams, 2004. PN6725.W23 2004
- Walker, Brian. The Comics Since 1945. New York: Abrams, 2002. Call number: PN6725.W25 2002
- Prepared by: Maja Keech, Reference Specialist, with assistance from Sara Duke, Curator, Popular and Applied Graphic Art, 9/27/99 - updated 2008