His archives contain tens of thousands of original sketches (indexed), original comic strip art, daily records, idea notebooks, early childhood artwork, and much more.
The original art for Peter Kuper's biographical comic on Harvey Kurtzman, drawn for the book Masterful marks: cartoonists who changed the world (Simon & Schuster, 2014), edited by Monte Beauchamp. This Kurtzman bio connects to the Kurtzman material in the Kitchen Sink Press archives.
The collection will eventually encompass his original art, sketchbooks (dating back to high school), correspondence, and the legal records of the lawsuit lodged against him by political cartoonist Ted Rall. The present installment includes original art on acetate from the years 1995 and 1996.
A small collection of original comic art, by Fran Matera, Fred Lasswell, Fett, Gus Ariola, and Irwin Hasen, to be used as a teaching collection. More items are expected.
Written drafts, process drawings, and proofs for some of his longer-form works, including the comic he's best known for, Minimum wage, as well as original comic strip art from his own collection. These papers are part of a larger project to collect representative materials from the New York City comics scene.
A collection of a veriety of comics, including Mad Magazine and Zap, as well as individual artists, including R. Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, and S. Clay Wilson.
Howard Cruse Papers, 1941-2019145 linear feet (49 record cartons; 8 manuscript boxes; 54 oversize flat boxes; hard drive (321 GB), hard drive (614 GB))
Creator
Cruse, Howard
Abstract Or Scope
Personal and professional papers of comics artist Howard Cruse (1944-2019). Cruse was author of the graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby (1995), the comic strips Wendel (1983-1989) and Barefootz (1971-1979), and founding editor of the anthology Gay Comix (1980-1991).
The collection displays the diverse artistic venues that a comics artist pursued in order to make a living. For more on Meskin, see the book From shadow to light: the life and art of Mort Meskin: https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/7982354.