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Comics in the British Library, United
Kingdom
The British Library Newspaper Library has been receiving British comics via legal deposit since the 1870s, and a history of its “British Comics Collection” can be found at http://www.bl.uk/collections/comics.html. The Library’s website also contains a “Select List of British Comics Held in the British Library Newspaper Library”, which can be found at http://www.bl.uk/collections/comlist.html#intro.
Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik
Deutschland, Germany
In 1986 material began to be collected for a museum of postwar German history, and in 1990 the Haus der Geschichte of the Federal Republic of Germany was established in Bonn as
“a centre for exhibitions, documentation and information”. The museum’s website includes a virtual exhibition “Divided - United: Fifty Years of the German Question” at http://www.hdg.de/karikatur/view/karikaturen.html This deals with significant events from each of the fifty years from 1949 to 1998 , in cartoons from both East and West Germany.
German Museum of Caricature and Satirical
Drawing, Germany
The Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und kritische Grafik in Hannover has a website at http://www.wilhelm-busch-museum.de/, with details of its current exhibitions.
Centre Inter
The Centre Inter
Centro Nazionale del Fumetto, Italy
The Italian National Centre for Comic Art is based in Turin, and has a website at http://www.fumetti.org/, including news and useful links. The site also includes a Virtual Comic Art Museum - Il Museo Virtuale del Fumetto - at http://www.fumetti.org/museo/default.htm, which contains an ambitious biographical guide to Italian cartoonists since 1908.
Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée,
Belgium
At http://www.brusselsbdtour.com/cbbd.htm there is a description and virtual tour of the Belgian Cartoon Centre in Brussels, which takes in everything from its library to its statue of Tintin. For the official Tintin website - with a biography of Georges Rémi (“Hergé”) - visit http://www.tintin.com/uk/
Caricature and Cartoon Museum, Switzerland
The website of the Basel Caricature and Cartoon Museum, which was established in 1979, is at http://www.cartoonmuseum.ch/. A useful attempt to distinguish cartoons, caricatures, parodies, pastiches, etc. can be found at http://www.cartoonmuseum.ch/WASIST/was_frame.html
Danish Comics Museum, Denmark
The Danish Comics Museum opened in Kalundborg
in 1993, but the exhibitions closed in 2000. Since then it has existed only as a
National Library of Australia
The National Library of Australia’s Pictorial Collection can be searched online at http://www.nla.gov.au/catalogue/pictures/index.html, and includes hundreds of cartoon images.
The National Museum of Australia
The National Museum of Australia hosts an annual exhibition of cartoons drawn from the major Australian newspapers, entitled “Bringing the House Down - 12 months of Political Cartoons”. Images from the exhibition can be found online at http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/bthd01/
National Library of New Zealand
“Timeframes” is an online database of over 20,000 images from the Alexander Turnbull Library, a division of the National Library of New Zealand. It contains hundreds of cartoon images, including dozens by the New-Zealand-born cartoonist David Low, and can be searched through http://timeframes1.natlib.govt.nz/.
Library of Congress, United States
The Library of Congress has an number of important cartoon collections. In 1921 it bought a collection of ten thousand British satirical prints from the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, and in 1974 it was given the Caroline and Erwin Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon, amounting to over 2,000 drawings, prints, and paintings related to the art of caricature, cartoon, and illustration. An article on “Cartoon-related Research at the Library of Congress” is available online at http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/cartoon_research.html, and some of the Library’s cartoon material can be searched online through the catalogues at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html
Cartoon Research Library, Ohio State
University, United States
The Cartoon Research Library was established in 1977, and its aim is “to develop a comprehensive research collection of materials documenting American printed cartoon art”. The current holdings include 240,000 original cartoons; 20,000 books; and more than 2,800 linear feet of manuscript materials. The Library’s website is at http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/cgaweb/, but copyright problems mean that few cartoons are displayed.
Inter
The Inter
The Cartoon Art Trust, United Kingdom
The Cartoon Art Trust is a registered charity dedicated to collecting and conserving the best of British cartoons, caricatures, and comics, and to establishing a museum of cartoon art in London. Since 1992, the CAT has run exhibitions, lectures and classes in temporary premises in central London, and it has a website at http://www.atreides.demon.co.uk/CTrust/natmus.html.
Political Cartoon Society, United Kingdom
The Political Cartoon Society is a membership organisation run by Dr Tomothy S. Benson, which publishes a quarterly newsletter and organises exhibitions of original political cartoon art. Its website at http://www.politicalcartoon.co.uk/index.html has news of forthcoming exhibitions, plus useful historical articles - such as the consideration of David Low and Lord Beaverbrook at http://www.politicalcartoon.co.uk/html/history3.html.
The Cartoonists’ and Writers’ Syndicate
The Cartoonists’ and Writers’ Syndicate was founded in 1978, and represents over 350 cartoonists from more than fifty countries. Its website at http://www.cartoonweb.com/ includes “Cartoons in Focus”- a selection of recently-published cartoons on a range of political and social topics.
Association of American
Editorial Cartoonists,
United States
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists was founded in 1957 to promote and stimulate public interest in the art of editorial cartooning and to create close association among editorial cartoonists. Their website at http://www.detnews.com/AAEC/ is hosted by the Detroit News, and includes members’ portfolios, notes, and valuable articles and reviews - such as one on Windsor McCay at http://www.detnews.com/AAEC/fall98/winsor/winsor.htm
National Cartoonists’ Society, United States
The American National Cartoonists Society was founded in 1946, and is open only to those who derive at least half their income from cartooning. Based in New York, it has over 600 members worldwide, and its website at http://www.reuben.org/main.asp includes links to the websites of many of them.
American Popular Culture Association, United
States
The American Popular Culture Association
includes a “Comic Art and Comics” section, whose web page is at
http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~epk93002/CAC/. Allen Ellis of the American Popular
Culture Association published “Comic Art in Scholarly Writing - A Citation
Guide” in the Inter
William Hogarth and 18th-Century Print
Culture
Northwestern University in Chicago runs a site on “William Hogarth and 18th-Century Print Culture” at http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec/hogarth/main.html. Widely illustrated and annotated, it includes a section on Hogarth’s political images at http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec/hogarth/Politics1.html.
American Political Cartoons, 1766 to 1884.
The Harper’s Weekly website at http://www.harpweek.com/ contains two valuable databases of American political cartoons. “American Political Prints 1766 to 1876” at http://loc.harpweek.com/ is drawn from the Library of Congress collection, but has been catalogued and extensively annotated. It has a wide range of images, including many relating to American relations with Britain. A second archive of “The Presidential Elections 1860-1884” is at http://elections.harpweek.com/default.htm, with cartoons and background information from the seven presidential elections in the United States from 1860-1884. The cartoons are taken from the Library of Congress collection, plus Harper's Weekly, Vanity Fair, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly, and Puck.
Political Cartoons and Cartoonists
Jim Zwick’s Historical Graphics Gallery contains a section on Political Cartoons and Cartoonists. This includes short biographies and articles on American cartoon history, and a list of the themed collections on the site can be found at http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/political_cartoons.html The content is principally American, but collections such as “Woman Suffrage in Political Cartoons” at http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/suf_intro.html contains several images of British suffragettes seen from an American perspective. There is also an index of cartoonists represented on the site at http://www.boondocksnet.com/cartoons/cartoons_cartoonists.html.
Red Clydeside
The website “Red Clydeside:A Gateway to Resources” deals with the industrial, social and political upheaval which occurred in Glasgow between the years 1910 and 1922. There is an interesting page of left-wing political cartoons from this period at http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/prototype/redclyde/cartoons.htm.
The FDR Cartoon Archive
The FDR Cartoon Archive at http://www.nisk.k12.ny.us/fdr/ contains more than 2,400 political cartoons from the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. These have been taken from a collection of 30,000 political cartoons dating from 1932 to 1943 in the Roosevelt Presidential Library in New York. The online images include some by British political cartoonists - such as J. Wallace Coop from the News of the World at http://www.nisk.k12.ny.us/fdr/fdr_foreign/33042301.GIF.
Dr. Seuss Went to War:
A Catalog of Political Cartoons by Dr. Seuss
From 1941 to 1943 Theodor Seuss Geisel - “Dr. Seuss” - was chief editorial cartoonist for the New York newspaper PM, drawing over 400 editorial cartoons. The artwork and cuttings are in the Dr. Seuss Collection at the University of California, San Diego, which has put them on the web at http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/. A page of cartoons dealing with Britain can be found at http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/GreatBritain.html.
CNN ‘Toons Archive
The CNN online news service includes political cartoons, some of which are animated. They are archived in the CNN ‘Toons Archive at http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/analysis/toons/archive.html.
American political cartoons and the First
Amendment
The text of the US Supreme Court’s 1988 decision in Hustler Magazine, Inc. et al. v. Jerry Falwell can be found at http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/hustler.html. This important case concerned the status of political cartoons and the “emotional distress” they may cause to those depicted, arising from a cartoon that “portrayed respondent as having engaged in a drunken incestuous rendezvous with his mother in an outhouse.”
Cartoonists at Spartacus Schoolnet
The cartoonists and illustrators included in the Spartacus Educational online encyclopaedia can be found at http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/cartoons.htm. These biographies and examples cover a wide range of British, German, and American cartoonists, from James Gillray to Carl Giles. There are also brief entries for art editors such as Cyril Bird - at http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ARTbird.htm, and publications such as Punch - at http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jpunch.htm.
Illustrators’ Biographies
The website of Bud Plant Illustrated Books has a large biographical section at http://www.bpib.com/illustra.htm, featuring more than a hundred illustrated and interlinked biographies of illustrators. Many of these were also cartoonists, and there are useful pages on W. Heath Robinson at http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/whrobin.htm, and on Ronald Searle at http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/searle.htm.
The London Cartoon Gallery
The London Cartoon Gallery sells the original artwork for editorial and strip cartoons published in British newspapers and magazines. It represents a number of different cartoonists, and there is a useful page of biographies at http://www.cartoongallery.co.uk/biogi.htm with fuller coverage of Steve Bell at http://www.cartoongallery.co.uk/virtualexhibition1.htm and Chris Riddell at http://www.cartoongallery.co.uk/virtualexhibition.htm.
Daryl Cagle’s Professional Cartoonists’
Index
The Professional Cartoonists’ Index at http://cagle.slate.msn.com/ has a wealth of material on American editorial cartooning, but also includes examples of recent political cartoons from around the world at http://cagle.slate.msn.com/politicalcartoons/ This includes work by Martyn Turner of the Irish Times, who appears at http://cagle.slate.msn.com/politicalcartoons/PCcartoons/turner.asp.
European Comics on the Web
European Comics on the Web is available at http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/~erikt/comics/ and contains a wide range of links to European comics and graphic art.
The Lambiek Comiclopedia
The Galerie Lambiek opened in Amsterdam in 1968, and is Europe's oldest antiquarian comic shop. Its website includes the “Lambiek Comiclopedia”, a searchable database of artist biographies and artwork at http://www.lambiek.net/artists/index.htm. Mainly concerned with comic artists, the massive “Comiclopedia” does however include British editorial cartoonists such as Wally Fawkes - “Trog” - and Carl Giles, along with newspaper strip cartoonists such as Reg Smythe and Norman Pett. The Galerie Lambiek also holds exhibitions, listed at http://www.lambiek.net/expo.htm.
Don Markstein's Toonopedia
Donald D. Markstein has created the “Toonopedia” as “the world's first hypertext encyclopedia of toons” - a term that he uses to cover all American cartooning, from comic books to newspaper strips. More than four hundred short linked articles are available at http://www.toonopedia.com/, and provide a useful introduction to American comic art.
Words and Pictures Virtual Museum of Comics
In 1992 artist Kevin B. Eastman opened the Words & Pictures Museum of Fine Sequential Art in Northampton, Massachusetts, but in 1999 this exhibition centre was reborn as the Words and Pictures Virtual Museum of Comics. The website at http://www.wordsandpictures.org/index.cfm includes numerous links pages, to libraries and universities with comic art collections, as well as to organisations and individuals. At http://www.wordsandpictures.org/listings.cfm?categoryname=Universities there is a useful page of links to “online collections, centers of study, scholarly conferences, discussions and libraries.”
The Comics Scholarship Annotated
Bibliographies
Gene Kannenberg’s website at http://www.comicsresearch.org/ features the Comics Scholarship Annotated Bibliographies, which cover book-length works about comic books and comic strips, from fan writing to academic monographs. The bibliographies include books from all countries, and include some entries on editorial cartooning.
The Grand Comic-Book Database Project
This ambitious project aims to create a Grand Comic-Book Database with “data for every comic book ever published.” The intention of the volunteers on the project is “to catalog key story information, creator information, and other information which is useful to readers, fans, hobbyists, researchers.” The first 30,000 catalogued comics and comic books - largely from the United States - can be searched at http://www.comics.org/sok.html.
Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical
The Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical (SciPer) project is jointly organised by the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies at the University of Sheffield and the Division of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds. The website at http://www.sciper.leeds.ac.uk/index.htm has cartoons from Punch as well as textual articles.
University of Brighton School of Design
A useful chronology of comics and cartooning appears at http://www.adh.bton.ac.uk/schoolofdesign/MA.COURSE/LComics.html, with links to additional pages on characters such as Ally Sloper - who appears at http://www.adh.bton.ac.uk/schoolofdesign/MA.COURSE/LComics04.html.
Propaganda Postcards of the Great War
The Propaganda Postcards of the Great War website displays images from the private collections of Paul Hageman and Jerry Kosanovich, and includes many social and political cartoons. The eventual aim is to display more than 2,500 images on the site at http://www.ww1-propaganda-cards.com/index.html
Jerry Beck’s Cartoon Research
One of the best websites for information on American animated cartoons on film and television is Jerry Beck’s Cartoon Research at http://www.cartoonresearch.com/index.html. The page of links at http://www.cartoonresearch.com/links.html gives access to a wide range of resources.
Chris Beetles Ltd, United Kingdom
The Chris Beetles Gallery in London specialises in the work of illustrators and cartoonists, and produces catalogues and exhibitions. He has a website at http://chrisbeetles.adl-nexus.com/.
CartoonStock
CartoonStock is a searchable database of work by a number of published cartoonists, and can be found at http://www.cartoonstock.com/.
Cartoonet Illustration Agency
The Cartoonet Illustration Agency aims “to help publishers, editors, art directors and web designers find freelance illustrators and artists worldwide.” It has a website at http://www.illustration-agency.com/, and the political cartoonists it represents appear at http://www.illustration-agency.com/gallery/editorial/editorial.htm.
Drawn & Quartered.com
Drawn & Quartered.com is an online agency that represents a number of editorial cartoonists, and its website can be found at http://www.drawnandquartered.com/.
New Yorker
Magazine, United States
A searchable archive of New Yorker covers can be found at http://www.cartoonbank.com/covers.asp. It is part of the main New Yorker site at http://www.cartoonbank.com/, which also markets reproductions of cartoons from the magazine.
Punch
Magazine, United Kingdom
An archive of undated Punch cartoons can be found at http://www.punch.co.uk/shop/, part of the main Punch website at http://www.punch.co.uk/. Copies of the cartoons can be bought through the site.
King Features Syndicate, United States
In 1913 William Randolph Hearst created the Newspaper Feature Service, to syndicate material to newspapers across America. In 1915 it was succeeded by King Features Syndicate, which became responsible for launching many well-known cartoons and strips on the American market. The website includes a useful history at http://www.kingfeatures.com/history/index.htm, and the Syndicate’s current editorial cartonists are listed at http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/edcar/edcar.htm.
United Media, United States
United Media is a worldwide licensing and syndication company, which provides newspaper strips and editorial cartoons. A list of its syndicated material can be found at http://www.unitedmedia.com/uminfo/sitemap.html, and United Media’s editorial cartoonists are accessible through http://www.unitedmedia.com/editoons/index.html.
The Periodic Table of Comic Books, United
States
A site that defies description can be found at http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/index.htm. The Periodic Table of Comic Books was constructed by the University of Kentucky.
Official Rupert Bear website
In 1920 the illustrator Mary Tourtel created Rupert Bear as a children’s strip cartoon for the London Daily Express, to rival Teddy Tail in the London Daily Mail. The strip continues to be published, and the Official Rupert Bear website is run by the Followers of Rupert, a group of enthusiasts and collectors set up in 1983. It can be found at http://www.ee.ed.ac.uk/~afm/followers/frames.html.
Facet Books, United Kingdom
Facet Books specialises in second-hand British cartoon books and comics, and its online catalogue can be found at http://www.jallinson.freeserve.co.uk/.
Park Art Cartoon Books, United Kingdom
Park Art is a specialist wholesaler and retailer of cartoon books and books about the history of cartoons. Its website is at http://freespace.virgin.net/mark.bryant/index.htm