Where there's smoke there's fire. Russell Patterson, ca. 1925
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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: http://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
