The centerpiece of the comic strip collection is a set of 534
hand-made scrapbooks containing over 300,000 carefully organized
daily comic strips, dating from about 1940 to about 1980. A
separate collection of over 200,000 daily comic strips, called the "Blank" in the Comics collection, is clipped
and sorted by topic. Almost every known book collection of
reprinted American comic strips is included in the collection.
Donations of comic strips (200 more scrapbooks and thousands of loose strips and pages)
received in 1992 are still being sorted. In total, 500,000
strips can currently be consulted efficiently, and at least
200,000 more are on the premises, including boxes of Sunday
pages. This is the largest number of topically organized comic strips in
any university collection. The Ohio State University Library collection, since 1998, includes the bulk of the newspaper strip collection of The San Francisco Academy of Comic Art, of at least 4 million strips, and is the world's leading
newspaper comic collection.
Click HERE for a list of most topics in the "Blank" in the Comics strip collection.
