Comic Art Collection

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The Comic Art Collection holds over 200,000 items. Most of these items are American comic books, but also included are over 1,000 books of collected newspaper comic strips, nearly 15,000 foreign comic books, and several thousand books and periodicals about comics. Although some archival materials are held, the focus of the collection is on published work, in an effort to present a complete picture of what the American comics readership has seen, especially since the middle of the twentieth century.

Online Resources

• The Comic Art Collection Homepage - Learn about our collection of foreign and domestic comics. Includes an index of the collection.

Did You Know ...

• There were at least 200 different comic strips and daily panels in American newspapers each day throughout the 20th century, for a total of at least 7,300,000 unique episodes! Our Comic Art Collection has about 500,000 of them neatly arranged in scrapbooks, as a sideline to our main focus, the comic books.
• There were at least 200 different comic strips and daily panels in American newspapers each day throughout the 20th century, for a total of at least 7,300,000 unique episodes! Our Comic Art Collection has about 500,000 of them neatly arranged in scrapbooks, as a sideline to our main focus, the comic books.