Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
- Address
- Columbus, Ohio
- Website
- cartoons.osu.edu
About Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum is a research library of American cartoons and comic art affiliated with the Ohio State University library system in Columbus, Ohio. Formerly known as the Cartoon Research Library and the Cartoon Library & Museum, it holds the world's largest and most comprehensive academic research facility documenting and displaying original and printed comic strips, editorial cartoons, and cartoon art. The museum is named after the Ohio cartoonist Billy Ireland.
Covering comic books, daily strips, Sunday strips, editorial cartoons, graphic novels, magazine cartoons, and sports cartoons, the collection includes 450,000 original cartoons, 36,000 books, 51,000 serial titles, and 3,000 feet (910 m) of manuscript materials, plus 2.5 million comic strip clippings and tear sheets.
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- Founded
- 1977
Photos of Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
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01ColumbusMaria Rimmel · CC BY-SA 4.0
02Inside an aisle of compact shelvingKaren Green from NYC · CC BY-SA 2.0
03Reading room exteriorRightCowLeftCoast · CC BY-SA 4.0
04Billy Ireland Drawing Board DisplayJustPere · CC0
05Anti-Mormon cartoonCharles Nelan · Public domain
06Anti-Mormon cartoon (cropped)Charles Nelan · Public domain
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