At least 5,000 books, periodical issues, fanzines, annotated
reprints and facsimiles, theses, offprints, and conference and
seminar papers make up the world's most complete collection of
materials about comic books and strips. A bibliography has been
published, Comic Books and Strips, an Information Sourcebook
(Oryx Press, 1988) which lists and annotates the most substantial
1,000 titles of this collection. All are listed in the MSU
Libraries' online catalog and in the OCLC
Network. Several hundred files of clippings and ephemera on
persons, companies, titles and topics of interest to the comic
art scholar are maintained. A project is in the works to index
the periodical literature on comics.
