Collection Description The Center for the Humanities Comics Collection is comprised of comic books, periodicals, pulp magazines, graphic novels, manga, foreign-language comics, self-published magazines and comics, LPs, and miscellaneous materials. Comic books make up the bulk of the collection, with a particular emphasis on superhero comics published by Marvel and DC during the second half of the twentieth century. Many other genres are represented as well, including war comics, erotic...

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This collection includes published materials in various formats collected by Gerald Early mainly dating between 1940 and 2015.

Scope and Contents This collection contains 18 original illustrations by Charles Johnson. Johnson had aspirations of becoming a cartoonist from a young age and ended up publishing comic strips in his college newspaper, the Daily Egyptian. After college, Johnson continued making editorial cartoons that focused on Black life and civil rights. At the age of 22, Johnson created a collection of gag cartoons published in his book Black Humor (1970) in a style similar to those found in New...

Scope and Contents The Karl S. Kaltenthaler Collection is comprised of comic books, zines, magazines, graphic novels, and miscellaneous materials. Comic books make up the bulk of the collection with approximately 1,500 items, spanning many genres and styles including superhero comics, war comics, horror comics, and alternative and underground titles. Featured prominently in the collection are some of the most revered and influential comic book artists and writers of the late twentieth century, including Alan...

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This collection includes original pen and ink drawings on board mainly dating from ca.1939.

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This collection includes 12 original comic strips: 4 Beetle Bailey strips by Mort Walker; 4 Beetle Bailey strips by Mort Walker and his son Greg Walker; 2 Boner's Ark strips (signed "Addison"); 2 Hi and Lois strips by Mort Walker and Dik Browne.

Description Craig Yoe is widely known for his expansive career as a collector, historian, publisher, cartoonist, and art director. He has been an active comics champion since the mid-1960s when he produced fanzines about comics history in his parents’ basement. Yoe has been collecting comic books, artwork, rare books, periodicals, and ephemera for 50 years. The collection consists of an impressive selection of books, periodicals, and numerous original works of art spanning six decades. The Craig Yoe...