Comic Art Collection
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The Comic Art Collection holds over 200,000 items. Most of these
items are comic books, but also included are over 1,000 books
of collected newspaper comic strips, and several thousand books
and periodicals about comics. Although some archival material
and a few dozen pieces of original comic book and comic strip art
are held, the focus of the collection is on published work, in an
effort to present a complete picture of what the audience has
seen over the years of the twentieth century. Local students and
advanced scholars from around the world find this collection to
be the primary library resource for the study of U.S. comic book
publications.
The most important categories of material in the Comic Art Collection, based on current completeness and emphasis, are the U.S. comic books, the international comics collection, the newspaper strip books, and the historical and critical materials. Smaller sub-collections include animation-related material, Big Little Books, books illustrated by comic artists or written by comics professionals, propaganda comics, tie-ins to comic-related movies, the Eclipse Comics archive, and clipping and ephemera files.
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Michigan State University Libraries
Comic Art Collection
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