Series consists of original art, sketches, pencil and ink drawings, newspaper strips, cartoons, and comic book pages, dating from 1884 to 2016.
Arrange alphabetically by last name of the author.
Box 6 Folder 3
Arriola, Gus: Gordo, 1949-12-08
Harmful content.
Medium: Ink over blue pencil on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 19" x 5". Accession 2016-2017-M112
Box 1 Folder 13
Bell, Gabrielle: "July 2nd 2011", 2011-07-02
Medium: Ink on graph paper. Type: Original art. Accession 2021-2022-M139
Box 6 Folder 8
Berndt, Walter: Smitty, 1958-02-15
Syndicate: Chicago Tribune. Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 19.75" x 6". Accession 2018-2019-M059
Box 6 Folder 7
Branner, Martin: Winnie Winkle [Confectionery Love], 1927-06-11
Syndicate: Chicago Tribune. Medium: Done in ink and blue pencil over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 20" x 5.75". Accession 2019-2020-M028
Box 6 Folder 7
Branner, Martin: Winnie Winkle [Fawthah is working dirt cheap], 1932-10-31
Note to printer in margin, receipt stamp on reverse, "1932 Oct 14 A 10 05" Ink on illustration board with blue pencil shading.
Medium: Done in ink and blue pencil over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 20" x 5.75". Accession 2021-2022-M139
Box 4 Folder 6
Briggs, Clare: The Days of Real Sport, 1928-09-10
Syndicate: New York Tribune. Accompanied by autographed drawing of Rob Stolzer (7/4/2012)
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 14" x 11". Accession 2019-2020-M135
Box 4 Folder 6
Briggs, Clare: The Days of Real Sport, 1927-01-10
With accompanying a.l.s. by Briggs, 1927
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 14" x 11". Accession 2022-2023-M089
Box 5 Folder 2
Campbell, E. Simms: "You should have tied your kite to this flag pole", 1932
"That's what I told Poppa out there."
Medium: Produced in ink over graphite on illustration board. Type: Judge magazine illustration. Dimension: 12" x 12". Accession 2016-2017-M112
Box 6 Folder 1
Capp, Al: Li'l Abner, 1957-09-16
This iteration of the long-running (1934-1977) daily strip, which sports the blue ruling lines used for lettering, features General Bashington T. Bullmoose in Lower Slobbovia, looking for Fabulous Annie. Ink on Bristol board. Excellent condition. (donation of Douglas D. Vogel)
Type: Daily comic strip. Accession 2018-2019-M141
Box 2 Folder 8
Carlson, Wallace "Wally": Mostly Malarky [Maizie and Daisy], 1948-01-08
Syndicate: Chicago Tribune. Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 8.25" x 10". Accession 2018-2019-M059
Box 6 Folder 1
Carter, Ad: Just Kids, 1930-03-23
In two separate pieces
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 8.5" x 18". Accession 2022-2023-M089
Box 2 Folder 5
Colon, Ernie: Hot Stuff #4, 1977
Sal Quartuccio
Medium: Ink and Zipatone over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Story page. Dimension: 8.75" x 13". Accession 2019-2020-M122
Box 1 Folder 9
Cory, Fanny Young: Cows are Floating in the Breeze, 1910s-1920s
Nicholas Magazine?
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Original art. Dimension: 5.5" x 3.5" x 5". Accession 2018-2019-M059
Box 1 Folder 9
Cory, Fanny Young: Untitled [Baby in letter Y], 1910s-1920s
Nicholas Magazine?
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Original art. Dimension: 5.5" x 3.5" x 5". Accession 2018-2019-M059
Box 1 Folder 9
Cory, Fanny Young: Untitled [Children feeding cow], 1910s-1920s
Nicholas Magazine?
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Original art. Dimension: 5.5" x 3.5" x 5". Accession 2018-2019-M059
Box 3 Folder 14
Cotter, Joshua W.: Nod Away, Vol. 1, Page 188, 2015
Gift of Annie Koyama, 2021. Packed in cardboard with drawing to Curator Karen Green.
Medium: ink over blue pencil on illustration board. Type: Page. Dimension: 9" x 12". Accession 2021-2022-M084
Box 3 Folder 14
Cotter, Joshua W.: Nod Away, Vol. 1, Page 227, 2016
Published by Adhouse Books, 2008.
Medium: ink over blue pencil on illustration board. Type: Page. Dimension: 9" x 12". Accession 2019-2020-M028
Mapcase 15-B-1 Folder 2
Cros, Earl (Carl Rose): Our New Age, 1958-11-09
Medium: Ink and Zipatone over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Sunday comic strip. Dimension: 20.75" x 14". Accession 2021-2022-M062
Shelf 13v, 42w, 04, 01
Crumb, R.: Untitled, 1974
Gift of Mitchell Berger, 2019. Drawn in his sketchbook nby Crumb in Harvey Kurtzman's class at the School of Visual Arts. A 1974 pen-and-ink sketch by R. Crumb, drawn for Mitchell Berger. It includes many elements common to Crumb's early work, including blues lyrics and the contrast of the urban present with a pastoral past.
Medium: Ink over pencil on sketchbook paper. Type: Sketch. Accession 2019-2020-M073
Box 3 Folder 5
Cruz, Roger (pencils) and Matt Ryan (inks): "The Choice", in Silver Surfer #138, Page 19, 1998
Published by Marvel Comics, 1998. Signed by Matt Ryan on the back.
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Page. Dimension: 10" x 15". Accession 2019-2020-M028
Box 3 Folder 3
Dalrymple, Farel and Jonathan Lethem (writer): Re-imagining of "Omega the Unknown", 2007, 4 pages
"Omega the Unknown" was originally created in the 1970s by writers Steve Gerber and Mary Skrenes and artist Jim Mooney.
Purchase from Heritage Auctions, 2022.
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Pages. Dimension: 17.25" x 11". Accession 2021-2022-M155
Box 1 Folder 10
Darcy, Dame: "The Ghost Filly" in Meat Cake #5, 1995-11; 2006
Fantagraphics/Vice. Print of black and white from 1995 hand-colored by the artist for VICE website in 2006.
Medium: Originally published in black and white; hand-colored with watercolors over printed line art . Type: 4 page color production art. Dimension: 8.5" x 11". Accession 2018-2019-M059
Box 4 Folder 4
Day, Chon: Judge "Haw, haw, count, he thinks you're a fake!", 1931-03-28
Part of Judge (Group of 2)
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Cartoons. Dimension: 13.5" x 13". Accession 2016-2017-M112
Box 4 Folder 4
Day, Chon: Judge "Hey, Herman -- who do you want should carry on as leader?", 1937-03
Part of Judge (Group of 2)
Medium: Ink over graphite on illustration board. Type: Cartoons. Dimension: 11" x 10". Accession 2016-2017-M112
Box 3 Folder 5
Dorgan, Thomas "TAD" Aloysius: Indoor Sports, 1922-07-24
King Features ownership sticker and print order form on reverse. Gift of Karen Green, 2024.
Caption: ""Giving a little attention to two finale hoppers as they try to get John. A. Sap to shoulder another check for the pack in.""
Medium: Pen and ink, brush, and blue pencil on illustration board. Type: Daily single-panel comic strip. Dimension: 14" x 9". Accession 2023-2024-M103
Box 3 Folder 5
Dorgan, Thomas "TAD" Aloysius: Indoor Sports, 1923
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board, with blue-pencil highlights (an engraving guide, for the addition of shading). Type: Daily single-panel comic strip. Dimension: 12" x 8". Accession 2019-2020-M028
Box 3 Folder 5
Dorgan, Thomas "TAD" Aloysius: Indoor Sports, 1932-10-08
King Features ownership sticker on reverse. Gift of Karen Green, 2024.
Caption: "Listening to the two dead ones as they kid one another washing up."
Medium: Pen and ink with some brushwork on illustration board. Type: Daily single-panel comic strip. Dimension: 13" x 9.5". Accession 2023-2024-M103
Box 2 Folder 10
Dunn, Bob: Portrait of Milt Gross, circa 1930s
Yiddishe humorist Milt Gross (1895-1953) changed the language with popular catch-phrases including "banana oil!" (meaning nonsense), and he is revered today as a vital link in the pop-cultural preservation of Jewish folklife. The artist represented here, Bob Dunn, was Gross' protègé and ghost-artist. This caricature finds Dunn delineating Gross in broad-nibbed pen- and brush-strokes, with a typically bemused expression. Ink over graphite on age-toned Bristol board. Dimensions, 10.25" x 12". Tightly cropped at borders, with nicked corners. Otherwise in Very Good condition.
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Drawing. Dimension: 10.5" x 12.25". Accession 2021-2022-M062
Box 4 Folder 5
Eaton, Mal: Can Ya Imagine!, 1944
Medium: Ink over graphite on Illustration board, with painted white highlights. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 19.75" x 5". Accession 2016-2017-M112
Box 4 Folder 5
Eaton, Mal: Lambert [I must move fast before someone else trims Lambert first!], 1940s
Medium: Ink over graphite on Illustration board, with painted white highlights. Type: Sunday comic strip. Dimension: 18.75" x 12.25". Accession 2016-2017-M112
Box 4 Folder 5
Eaton, Mal: Lambert [---We interrupt this broadcast to bring you a special news bulletin...], 1940s
Medium: Ink over graphite on Illustration board, with painted white highlights. Type: Sunday comic strip. Dimension: 18.75" x 12.25". Accession 2016-2017-M112
Box 4 Folder 3
Elgin, Jill: "Girl Commandos" in Speed Comics #40, 1945-11
Harvey Comics
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Page 4 original art. Dimension: 12.75" x 18.5". Accession 2018-2019-M059
Box 6 Folder 8
Forsythe, Vic: Joe Jinks "Offers! Offers!! Offers!!!", 1928-05-01
Medium: Ink on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 21.75" x 5.5". Accession 2016-2017-M112
Box 2 Folder 6
Fox, Fontaine: Toonerville Trolley, 1940
Inscribed to Charles Shinn, an officer of the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity (early 1940s), which produced a program for the National Intrafraternity Council that included cartoons by Fox and others. Ink over pencil on paper; glued to a cardboard backing.
Medium: Ink on Bristol board. Type: Daily single-panel comic strip. Dimension: 9.5" x 11.5". Accession 2021-2022-M139
Box 3 Folder 2
Fradon, Ramona: Wonder Woman and Batgirl convention sketches, circa 2012, 2 items
Medium: Pencil on illustration paper. Type: Original art. Dimension: 6" x 6". Accession 2021-2022-M139
Box 3 Folder 2
Fradon, Ramona and Dale Messick: Brenda Starr, 1981-07-10
Includes editorial corrections; inscribed to Karen Green.
Medium: Ink over pencil on illustration board.. Type: Daily comic strip. Accession 2021-2022-M139
Box 3 Folder 11
Freyse, Bill: Our Boarding House, 1943-10-18
In separate, smaller folder
Medium: Ink over blue line on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 12" x 11". Accession 2019-2020-M135
Box 4 Folder 2
Fuller, Ving: Doc Syke [Well, Miss Wow, is it going to be long or short skirts?], 1947-10-28
Gift of Karen Green, 2022.
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Sunday comic strip. Dimension: 18.5" x 5". Accession 2021-2022-M139
Box 4 Folder 2
Fuller, Ving: Doc Syke [Doctor, My Husband has Insomia...], 1945-05-06
Missing Doc Syke logo on strip. Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Sunday comic strip. Dimension: 20.25" x 9.5". Accession 2016-2017-M112
Box 4 Folder 2
Fuller, Ving: Doc Syke [Hello, Professor, What's Happened?], 1945-11-11
McClure Newspaper Syndicate, 1945. Doc Syke makes a house-call in this episode. Created in ink over graphite on Bristol board with an image area of 20.25" x 9.5". The logo is a printed paste-up, and there are blue pencil color call-outs. The figure of the Professor is colored with color pencils in Panel 2. Lightly toned and in Very Good condition.
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Sunday Comic Strip Original Art. Dimension: 20.25" x 9.5". Accession 2023-2024-M022
Box 4 Folder 2
Fuller, Ving: "Air Force Gunnery School", The American Magazine Complete 1-Page Wartime Story Original Art (Leslie's Publication), 1944
Brilliant visual irony, here: The WWII draft enlists circus twins who wear a two-man horse costume, front and rear. So where do these guys wind up? Why, fore-and-aft in a gunnery plane, of course. Fuller, a sophisticated adherent of the Big-Nose/Big-Foot school of cartooning, relates everything in four concise panels. A close look affirms Fuller as an influence upon such next-generation artists as Robert Crumb and the Netherlands' Joost Swarte. Ink and watercolor wash over graphite on Bristol board, with an image area of 12.75" x 16.5". Toned, with handling wear. In Very Good condition.
Type: Page. Accession 2023-2024-M022
Box 3 Folder 12
Graetz, Friedrich: "A change in the programme," original cartoon art for July 9, 1884 issue of Puck, 1884-06-23
Printer's tag attached. Missing its caption:
Panel 1: "Hey, Jimmy, when I push this stick, you collar one and run."
Panel 2: He did. Depicting [Little boy bread mishap] in Puck.
Medium: Ink on Bristol board. Type: Original art. Dimension: 7 1/2". Accession 2018-2019-M059
Box 6 Folder 4
Gray, Harold: Little Orphan Annie, 1967-02-11
Syndicate: New Syndicate Co., Inc.
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip (Saturday). Dimension: 21" x 6". Accession 2019-2020-M122
Box 6 Folder 4
Gray, Harold: Little Orphan Annie, 1967-02-13
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip (Monday). Dimension: 21" x 6". Accession 2019-2020-M122
Box 6 Folder 4
Gray, Harold: Little Orphan Annie, 1967-02-14
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip (Tuesday). Dimension: 21" x 6". Accession 2019-2020-M122
Box 6 Folder 4
Gray, Harold: Little Orphan Annie, 1967-02-16
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip (Thursday). Dimension: 21" x 6". Accession 2019-2020-M122
Box 6 Folder 8
Greene, Vernon V.: Mac the Medic "The Early Heel Gets the Cream!", 1940s
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board, with knife-scratching highlights. Type: Weekly comic strip. Dimension: 19.75" x 5.5". Accession 2016-2017-M112
Box 3 Folder 12
Griffin, S.B. (Syd B.): "History askew," original cartoon art for February 19, 1890 issue of Puck, 1890-02
Missing its caption: Mrs Buckley (coming into the nursery): What is all that noise I hear downstairs? Berkeley Buckley: We've been chuckin' Dan'l in th' den of lions, an' he's stuck in th' mouth of th' cave.
Medium: Ink on Bristol board. Type: Panel cartoon. Dimension: 12.5" x 11.25". Accession 2018-2019-M059
Mapcase 15-B-1 Folder 7
Gropper, William: Pious Man
1st Edition. Matted and Nicely Framed. 24 1/8 by 18 5/8 inches. Watercolor on Paper.
"William Victor 'Bill' Gropper (December 3, 1897 – January 3, 1977), was a U. S. Cartoonist, painter, lithographer, and muralist. A committed radical, Gropper is best known for the political work which he contributed to such left wing publications as The Revolutionary Age, The Liberator, The New Masses, The Worker, and The Morning Freiheit… Following World War II, Gropper traveled to Poland to attend the World Congress of Intellectuals for Peace of 1948 in Wroclaw… Due to his involvement with radical politics in the 1920s and 1930s, Gropper was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953… Gropper's alienation was accentuated when on March 24, 1911 he lost a favorite aunt in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire… Afterwards, he decided to pay tribute to the Jews who died in the Holocaust by painting one picture on the theme of Jewish life each year. " (Wikipedia, 2017)
Gropper is one of the most prominent leftist Jewish painters of the 20th century. The Met Museum collection includes 94 Gropper works listed online, and the MoMA museum collection includes over 50 of Gropper's works. Signed at Bottom. Stamped William Gropper / Croton-On-Hudson NY and titled (on the verso). Provenance: Sotheby's, "Important Judaica 04 December 2014, " Item 134A. Very Good Condition. (PAINT-1-10).-From Auction description
Medium: Watercolor on paper. Type: Original art. Accession 2023-2024-M104
Mapcase 15-B-1 Folder 1
Hamlin, V.T.: Alley Oop, 1935-04-07
In order to create the plates for four-color printing, hot lead was poured into pressed-paper molds (known as a matrix or a flong), cooling so quickly that there was no time for the matrix to burn. It is extremely rare for one of these one-use-only molds to survive. This matrix, dated April 7 and marked "BLUE," was used for the Sunday "Alley Oop" strip published for April 7 1935 (see p. 37, Alley Oop, The complete Sundays, volume 1, 1934-1936; PN6728.A45 H365 2014g, FOLIO) (donated by Douglas D. Vogel)
Type: Color separation matrix (blue). Accession 2018-2019-M141
Box 1 Folder 12
Harbin, Dustin: Untitled diary comic, circa 2013
Medium: Ink over pencil on illustration board. Type: Original art. Accession 2021-2022-M139
Box 5 Folder 6
Harvey Artist: Little Lotta in Foodland #20, 1969
Indicia page. (Cover by Warren Kremer. Stories and art by Warren Kremer and Steve Muffatti)
Medium: One-pager produced twice-up scale in ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: 1 page story. Dimension: 12" x 18". Accession 2019-2020-M122
Box 6 Folder 5
Hasen, Irwin: Dondi, 1968-09-04
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 19.75" x 6". Accession 2016-2017-M112
Box 3 Folder 11
Hatlo, Jimmy or Bob Dunn: They'll Do It Every Time [Blank balloons, no captions], Undated
Features Little Iodine, along with Mr. and Mrs. Tremblechin.
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 15" x 12". Accession 2015-2016-M157
Box 3 Folder 11
Hatlo, Jimmy: They'll Do It Every Time [One more headache for the house painter...], 1943-06-07
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 14.5" x 11.5". Accession 2019-2020-M135
Box 5 Folder 6
Helfant, Art: "Biff Mannon, Movie Hero", in Speed Comics #42, Page 4, 1946-03
Biff Bannon original art. Missing paste-up for final two panels.
Medium: Twice-up scale in ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Page. Dimension: 12.5" x 18". Accession 2019-2020-M028
Box 3 Folder 8
Holcomb, Robert: The Harding Presidential Campaign, 1920s
Type: Editorial cartoon. Dimension: 15" x 12". Accession 2015-2016-M157
Box 3 Folder 8
Holcomb, Robert: Scene at a Recruiting Office During the War with Spain 1898, 1920s
Type: Editorial cartoon. Dimension: 15" x 12". Accession 2015-2016-M157
Mapcase 15-B-1 Folder 3
Jenkins, Burris Jr.: 3-Day Police Carnival at Garden, circa 1930s
"When a feller has a friend!" NEW YORK JOURNAL-AMERICAN.
Medium: Graphite on Coquille board, with painted white logotype ... Blue pencil editorial and engraving instructions. Type: Editorial cartoon . Dimension: 19.5" x 17.5". Accession 2016-2017-M112
Box 2 Folder 1
Jones, L.D.: "Don't you want to go [to heaven], my dear" "Not unless...", circa 1930s
Medium: Ink over graphite on bond paper with painted red highlights. Type: Illustration. Dimension: 10" x 15". Accession 2016-2017-M112
Box 3 Folder 7
Jurgens, Dan (pencil) and Rick Burchett (ink): Justice League America #64, Page 20-21, 1992, 2 pages
Maxima finds herself at the mercy of angry mobs, as the planet Almerac begins to veer towards certain destruction in page 20 and 21 from "The Revenge of Starbreaker." (from auction description)
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Pages, Original art. Dimension: Both 10" x 15". Accession 2015-2016-M157
Box 6 Folder 2
King, Frank: Gasoline Alley, 1945-08-25
Syndicate: Chicago Tribune. Fresh meat is in short supply as World War II ends, in this daily featuring Skeezix, Nina, and baby Chipper. The line along the lower portion of the last two panels indicated a crop line for newspapers wanting to cram a few more strips onto their comics page, and is typical of many strips from this period. Missing the masthead logo in panel one, with mild soiling. (from auction description)
Medium: Ink over graphite on board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 19.75" x 6". Accession 2015-2016-M157
Box 6 Folder 5
Kling, Ken: Joe and Asbestos, 1930s-1940s, April 16
Harmful content, museum of unnatural history.
Medium: Produced in ink with blue pencil highlights over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 21" x 5.25". Accession 2016-2017-M112
Box 3 Folder 13
Knott, Jean: Penny Ante, 1919-06-19
Inscribed to Murphy from Jean Knott.
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 11.5" x 13". Accession 2016-2017-M112
Mapcase 15-B-1 Folder 4
Kraynak, Scott: Animal Crackers, 2013, 2 items
Scott Kraynak is an artist who also works as a ranger with the U.S. Forest Service. As the Brothers Kraynak (with his brother Jeff), he created the book Animal crackers (Published by Aspen Printing, 2013): exotic wildlife which explores the ramifications of nature doing to humanity what humanity does to nature. The book's art rides the line between illustration and editorial cartoon. The two pieces in our collection address the plight of wolves in North America and is related to environmental issues.
Medium: Ink and color on Bristol board. Type: Original art. Dimension: large piece (60cm x 45cm); small piece (34cm x 28cm). Accession 2021-2022-M115
Box 2 Folder 7
Kurtzman, Harvey: Burglar Alarms, Little Annie Fanny, Chapter 56 (Roughs), 1971
Accompanied by note to Hugh Hefner by Kurtzman, dated January 12, 1971, on Playboy Magazine letterhead.
Medium: Graphite, ink, and gouache on ruled illustration board. Type: 3 folios. Accession 2018-2019-M059
Box 5 Folder 2
Larsen, Howard: Jack Armstrong #2, Page 4, 1947
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Page. Dimension: 13" x 19.25". Accession 2016-2017-M112
Box 3 Folder 6
Lee, Norman: Marvel Comics, Spider-Man: inking tryout, 2001
Norman Lee submitted these inking samples to show how he would ink over John Romita, Jr.'s pencils. These were lightboxed onto vellum, which Lee then inked. These pencils were from 1996's Spider-Man #70 and feature Ben Urich and Peter Parker, with a nice big "ghost" image of Spider-Man in his classic costume. Signed and dated in the lower margin. (from auction description)
Medium: Lightboxed onto vellum, which Lee then inked. Type: Drawing, Original art. Dimension: 10" x 14.5". Accession 2015-2016-M157
Box 6 Folder 7
Link, Stanley: The Dailys, 1948-08-05
Syndicate: Chicago Tribune. Thursday. Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 20" x 6". Accession 2019-2020-M122
Box 6 Folder 7
Link, Stanley: The Dailys, 1949-03-11
Syndicate: Chicago Tribune. Friday. Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 20" x 6". Accession 2019-2020-M122
Box 5 Folder 6
Little, Tom: Sunflower Street, 1939-01-02
"Pap Henty Has a Nice Way of Giving Orders" "Pap Henty, Miny and Eeny". Little's down-home humor (with Tom Sims, a part-time Popeye gagman, as co-writer) carried Sunflower Street for 15 years, ending in 1950. Little's simultaneous work as a Nashville-based political cartoonist won for him a Pulitzer Medal during the 1940s. Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Image area, 11" x 12". Light toning. Excellent condition. (HERITAGE Description)
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 11" x 12". Accession 2018-2019-M141
Box 1 Folder 6
Lynch, Jay and Nard and Pat Sketch: Kootchie Koodle Gallery of Art and Comic Sketching, 1979
Medium: Drawn in marker over graphite on manilla paper. Type: Drawing. Dimension: 6" x 7.25". Accession 2016-2017-M112
Box 3 Folder 13
Mack, Edward Frank (Ed Mack): Willie Push, circa 1914 or 1918
Syndicate: Hearst Newspapers. Different dates given on Heritage and noted on the comic itself. Back side: Mr. R. L. Woods, Amour and Co. Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Ills-"; "From Ed Mack"; Adv. Dept.
If Mack's signed work resembles Bud Fisher's Mutt and Jeff, that's because Mack spent more time ghosting the Fisher strip -- both as a substitute, while Fisher was estranged from one syndicate, and as a formal assistant after Fisher had reclaimed the trademark and moved it to Hearst. Mack excelled on his own, additionally, especially with Willie Push, an upbeat portrayal of a hard-working salesman. As pun-titles go, Willie Push is right up there with Franklin Collier's signature character, Otto Grow. Ink over graphite on Bristol board, with light watercolor tinting. Image area, 13.5" x 5". Backed corners and moderate toning. Very Good condition. (HERITAGE Description) *Client mailing address on reverse
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board, with light watercolor tinting. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 13.5" x 5". Accession 2018-2019-M141
Box 6 Folder 2
Martin, Edgar: Boots and Her Buddies "And Cora Had Hopes!", 1940-10-05
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 20" x 4.5". Accession 2021-2022-M062
Box 5 Folder 3
McBride, Clifford: Napoleon [This doggone gasoline rationing's got me whipped...], circa 1940s
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 17" x 5". Accession 2018-2019-M059
Box 5 Folder 3
McBride, Clifford: Napoleon [Now What's Willie up to?...], 1942-11-22
Medium: Ink over graphite with blue pencil notations on Bristol board. Type: Sunday comic strip. Dimension: 19" x 13" including logo. Accession 2016-2017-M112
Box 6 Folder 3
McManus, George: Bringing Up Father, 1930-02-01
Medium: Ink over blue pencil on Bristol board . Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 4.25" x 17". Accession 2018-2019-M059
Box 2 Folder 2
Meskin, Sheldon and Mort Meskin: The Little Woman, 1950-1952, 53 pages
True Story Magazine. 53 snippets (1 repeat).
Medium: Proofs. Type: Editorial comic strip. Dimension: 8" x 10". Accession 2016-2017-M112
Box 1 Folder 14
Murphy, Jimmy: Toots and Caspar strip record "Fundraisng", 1934
Hand-drawn and lettered.
Medium: Ink on paper. Type: Page. Accession 2022-2023-M089
Box 6 Folder 5
O'Neill, Harry F.: Broncho Bill, 1946-11-05
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 18.75" x 5". Accession 2015-2016-M157
Box 3 Folder 1
Opper, Frederick Burr: Alice in Plunderland Editorial Cartoon Illustration, circa 1920s
This piece frames the other nations of the world as looking for a hand-out. Created in ink over graphite on Bristol board with an image area of 12.5" x 12.5". Toned with stains, the piece is glass front framed to 18.25" x 18.25". In Good condition. (removed from frame. Incorrect date—OSU has 4 of the "Alice in Plunderland" series, 3 of which are dated 1921)
One of Frederick Burr Opper's "Alice in Plunderland" series of editorial cartoons, undated but circa 1920s The Opper cartoon contains an offensive racial caricature.
Gift of Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr., 2023
Type: Original art. Accession 2023-2024-M021, 2023-2024-M022
Box 4 Folder 1
Orlando, Joe: "Kim" in Classics Illustrated #143, Page 17-18, 1958-03, 2 pages
Kim by Rudyard Kipling. Original art by Joe Orlando for page 17 of "Kim," Classics Illustrated #143 (Gilberton Comics), March 1958.
Medium: Ink on art board, with editorial markings in blue pencil.. Type: Pages. Accession 2019-2020-M074
Box 2 Folder 9
Parker, Gladys: Mopsy [Bank], 1960s-03-24
Mopsy is Parker's imaginary autobiography, dispensed in daily installments over a stretch of three decades. (Elder cartoonist Rube Goldberg had said that Parker's hair "Looked like a mop.") She often devoted her feature to "Say what?" one-liners, calculated to inspire befuddlement as well as humor. This piece is a prime example. Undated as to year, the cartoon dates stylistically to Parker's late-in-life period, when she stayed youthful through her signature character. Beautifully drawn, with intense contrast between slender pen-line work and densely blackened areas. Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Image area, 8.5" x 9.5". Light toning, marginal scribbles and a ragged right edge, and small adhesive stain (lower left). Very Good condition. (HERITAGE Description)
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily single-panel comic strip. Dimension: 8.5" x 9.5". Accession 2018-2019-M141
Box 2 Folder 9
Parker, Gladys: Mopsy [Cooking School], 1963-11-04
Bell-McClure Syndicate. Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily single-panel comic strip. Dimension: 8.25" x 9.75". Accession 2019-2020-M135
Box 3 Folder 6
Pérez, George, Josef Rubinstein (inker), and Mike Witherby (editor), Howard Chaykin (script): Isaac Asimov's I-BOTS #1, Page 14, "Out of the Blue", 1995
Tekno Comix. Signed by Rubinstein at the lower left.
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol. Type: Page. Dimension: 11" x 15.5". Accession 2015-2016-M157
Box 6 Folder 3
Powers, Grant: Dog Show, 1938
Inscribed to Frances Gorham by author
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Accession 2016-2017-M112
Box 3 Folder 4
Rodrigues, Charles: The Brothers Aesop in their Revolution Russian, 1979
This four-page story by Charles Rodrigues, drawn in ink with gouache on illustration paper, ran in the National Lampoon in 1979. It features Rodrigues' recurring characters, conjoined twins the Aesop brothers, during the Russian revolution. Gift of Rick Meyerowitz, 2023.
Medium: Ink with gouache on illustration paper. Type: Pages. Accession 2022-2023-M098
Box 6 Folder 5
Ernest, Ken and Allen Saunders: Mary Worth, 1977-07-09
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily . Dimension: 18.5" x 5.75". Accession 2016-2017-M112
Box 2 Folder 3
Sheffield, Truda: Eva's Pride, 1935
5 pieces: three pieces of original children's story illustration art; one page of proofs for the three pieces; original script of story for illustration. circa 1930s. (Not strictly comics, but it came with an auction lot.)
Medium: Small print featuring the title page and the 2 Panel strips. Type: Original art. Dimension: 5.75" x 4.25 to 8.75" x 11". Accession 2018-2019-M059
Box 2 Folder 3
Sheffield, Truda: Eva's Pride in Our Girls Brightest, 1935
Medium: Ink on Bristol board cut out. Type: Original art. Dimension: 5.75" x 4.25 to 8.75" x 11". Accession 2018-2019-M059
Box 2 Folder 3
Sheffield, Truda: [Man crying over Eva's cut hair], 1935
Medium: Panel strip produced in ink on Bristol board. Type: Original art. Dimension: 5.75" x 4.25 to 8.75" x 11". Accession 2018-2019-M059
Box 2 Folder 3
Sheffield, Truda: [Man grabbing Eva's hair], 1935
Medium: Panel strip produced in ink on Bristol board. Type: Original art. Dimension: 5.75" x 4.25 to 8.75" x 11". Accession 2018-2019-M059
Box 2 Folder 3
Sheffield, Truda: Untitled, 1935
Medium: Handwritten script of the story on ruled paper. Type: Short story. Accession 2018-2019-M059
Box 3 Folder 12
Shults, A.B.: [Yokles vs. Bourgeosie] in Puck, "Mount Desert item," original cartoon art for July 6, 1887 issue of Puck, 1887-05-16
Printer's tag attached. Missing its caption: Mrs. Duchesney Kilsaine, of Baltimore, arrived at Bar Harbor with her ménage last week; but, finding that the season had hardly begun, will return to St Augustine, Florida, for a brief stay.
Medium: Ink on Bristol board. Type: Original art. Dimension: 3 1/2". Accession 2018-2019-M059
Box 6 Folder 7
Smith, Sidney: The Gumps, 1928-02-17
Syndicate: Chicago Tribune. Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 20" x 5.75". Accession 2019-2020-M135
Box 3 Folder 5
Swan, Curt (pencils) and Murphy Anderson (inks): "The Sun of Superman", in Superman, Vol.34, No.255, Page 4, 1972
DC Comics. Comics Magazine Code Authority stamp dated March 21, 1972.
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Page. Dimension: 10" x 15". Accession 2019-2020-M028
Mapcase 15-B-1 Folder 3
Swanson, George "Swan": High Pressure Pete and Officer 6 7/8, 1937-11-29
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 25" x 5.5". Accession 2016-2017-M112
Box 3 Folder 12
Taylor, Richard: "I really had it finished at Brooklyn Bridge, -- but I don't get off 'till Flatbush Avenue.", 1940-04-27
Medium: Pen, ink, and wash on board. Type: Cartoon for the New Yorker. Dimension: 10.75" x 9.25". Accession 2018-2019-M059
Box 5 Folder 2
Tolf, Albert: Things of the Past, 1958
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 12.25" x 14.5". Accession 2016-2017-M112
Box 3 Folder 13
Turner, Leslie: Captain Easy, 1958-08-13
Medium: Drawn in ink on Craftint Duoboard. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 16" x 4.75". Accession 2015-2016-M157
Mapcase 15-B-1 Folder 5
Tuthill, Harry J.: The Bungle Family "George is Particular", 1926-02-07
Medium: Ink and watercolor on Bristol board. Type: Sunday comic strip. Dimension: 21.5" x 28". Accession 2016-2017-M112
Mapcase 15-B-1 Folder 5
Tuthill, Harry J.: The Bungle Family "The Imitation is Genuine", 1928-09-23
Medium: Ink and watercolor on Bristol board. Type: Sunday strip with watercolors added post-publication. Dimension: 21.5" x 28". Accession 2019-2020-M028
Box 5 Folder 4
Tuthill, Harry J.: The Bungle Family "Big Day for All", 1938-09-11
Two separate pieces. Includes a Short Stories topper. The strip has been cut between panel tiers three and four. (from auction description)
Medium: Ink on Bristol. Type: Sunday comic strip. Dimension: 21.5" x 28". Accession 2015-2016-M157
Box 5 Folder 5
Unidentified: Out in the Bldg, circa 1910s
Medium: Ink and watercolor on paper. Type: Sunday comic strip (in color). Dimension: 21" x 16.5". Accession 2015-2016-M157
Mapcase 15-B-1 Folder 6
Unidentified: Play Ball, 1915-04-12
Volume 1, number 24 of posters created by the Curtis Cartoon Cervice, aka Current Event Cartoon Service, for display in shop windows. Gift of Warren Bernard, 2024.
Medium: Pen and ink, brush and red and yellow color on illustration board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 22.5" x 33". Accession 2023-2024-M103
Box 6 Folder 7
Van Buren, Raeburn: Abbie an' Slats, 1948-01-14
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 18.75" x 5". Accession 2018-2019-M059
Box 5 Folder 2
Webb, Robert: Seven Seas Comics #6, Page 6, 1947
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Page. Dimension: 13" x 18.25". Accession 2016-2017-M112
Box 6 Folder 9
Weiss, Morris: Mickey Finn Autism Story (40 comic strips), 1970
This group of 40 sequential dailies from 1970 chronicles the story of a lost boy who has Autism. Morris Weiss had assumed the strip at this point as creator Lank Leonard had retired and subsequently passed away. Weiss an his wife Blanche found the Miami Society of Autistic Children in the 1970s, so this was a cause near and dear to his heart. This great story was an early attempt to get information on the subject out to the public. The story arc has started just before the first in this group, 4-20-70, and ran until at least the last in the group, 7-9-70. Produced in ink over graphite on Bristol board with an image area of 16.25" x 4.75" each. (from auction description)
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 16.25" x 4.75". Accession 2015-2016-M157
Box 2 Folder 4
Wertz, Julia: Inappropriate reactions, 2009
Medium: Ink on paper. Type: Original art. Dimension: Letter size. Accession 2021-222-M139
Box 2 Folder 4
Wertz, Julia: Two panel recreations, circa 2013, 2 items
Medium: Ink on illustration board. Type: Original art. Dimension: 9" square; 7.75" x 5.75". Accession 2021-222-M139
Box 6 Folder 6
Westover, Russ: The Van Swaggers, 1928-04-15
Medium: Ink over graphite. Type: Sunday comic strip. Dimension: 18.25" x 6". Accession 2021-2022-M062
Box 6 Folder 6
Westover, Russ: Tillie the Toiler, 1927-11-01
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Sunday comic strip. Accession 2021-2022-M139
Box 6 Folder 6
Westover, Russ: Tillie the Toiler, 04-17, no year
Bottom half. Medium: Ink over graphite mounted on Masonite board, broken and missing left edge. Type: Sunday comic strip. Accession 2015-2016-M157
Box 6 Folder 2
Willard, Frank: Moon Mullins "In Plain Words", 1936-04-30
Travel agency.
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 19.75" x 6". Accession 2016-2017-M112
Box 6 Folder 2
Willard, Frank: Moon Mullins "Shady Business", 1946-08-26
Hot day.
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 19.75" x 6". Accession 2016-2017-M112
Box 6 Folder 2
Willard, Frank: Moon Mullins "Small Change", 1945-03-13
Medium: Ink on Bristol. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 20" x 6". Accession 2015-2016-M157
Box 5 Folder 1
Williams, Gaar: Wotta Life! Wotta Life! [No place for a stray hungry dog there!...], 1929-04-09
Syndicate: Chicago Tribune
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily single-panel comic strip. Dimension: 10" x 15". Accession 2018-2019-M059
Box 5 Folder 1
Williams, Gaar: Wotta Life! Wotta Life! [If you must know, there's a wild flower out here...], 1929-04-11
Syndicate: Chicago Tribune
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily single-panel comic strip. Dimension: 13" x 13". Accession 2019-2020-M028
Box 5 Folder 1
Williams, Gaar: A Strain on the Family Tie, 1929-09-08
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily single-panel comic strip. Dimension: 13" square. Accession 2019-2020-M028
Box 5 Folder 1
Williams, Gaar: When Words Fail Yuh [You go tell her you go me in your power...], 1932-02-04
Syndicate: Chicago Tribune. This may be the weirdest cartoon ever to issue from that great satirist, Gaar Williams. A phoney kidnapping scam goes awry when the wife of the purported victim proves unwilling to play along. Scarcely a surprise to learn that Williams' cartoons inspired Jimmy Hatlo's similarly attuned They'll Do It Every Time. Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Image area, 13.5" square. Moderate toning. Very Good condition. From the Ray Edw Collection. (HERITAGE Description)
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip (Tuesday). Dimension: 13.5" square. Accession 2018-2019-M141
Box 5 Folder 1
Williams, Gaar: Among the Folks in History [We used to lock up th' store...], 1932-04-03
Syndicate: Chicago Tribune. Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Sunday gag panel. Dimension: 13" x 13". Accession 2019-2020-M122
Box 6 Folder 1
Winner, Doc: Buddy "And That Meant Fight", 1920s-02-09
Renamed by Winner's syndicate, United Feature, to facilitate reprinting. "TUBBY" crossed out and "BUDDY" written in.
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 19" x 5". Accession 2016-2017-M112
Box 6 Folder 1
Winner, Doc: Tubby "When There's a Will", 1920s
Too sick for chores.
Medium: Ink over graphite on Bristol board. Type: Daily comic strip. Dimension: 19" x 5". Accession 2016-2017-M112
Box 1 Folder 7
Woggon, Elmer and Allen Saunders: Big Chief Wahoo, circa 1930s-1940s
Letter inscribed to Ray from Woggon.
Medium: Ink on Bristol. Type: Promotional card w/ hand written letter on reverse. Dimension: 8" x 5" unfolded. Accession 2016-2017-M112