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Description of Pictures: Treasures from the Collections of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
This permanent exhibit features a selection of exceptional artwork and artifacts highlighting the breadth and depth of our collections.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. BITREA_170803_017.JPG: William Addison Ireland
2. BITREA_170803_022.JPG: Billy Ireland "The Passing Show" The Columbus Dispatch August 28, 1932
3. BITREA_170803_037.JPG: Chester Gould's drawing board and taberet ca 1921
4. BITREA_170803_052.JPG: Rube Goldberg character studies, 196-?
5. BITREA_170803_055.JPG: George Herriman Krazy Kat December 20, 1942
6. BITREA_170803_059.JPG: Walt Kelly Pogo May 18, 1969
7. BITREA_170803_064.JPG: Hal Foster Prince Valliant January 16, 1949
8. BITREA_170803_096.JPG: Winsor McCay Little Nemo in Slumberland October 29, 1905
9. BITREA_170803_113.JPG: Anonymous Mixed media, 19--?
10. BITREA_170803_129.JPG: Billy Ireland The Passing Show September 19, 1920
11. BITREA_170803_141.JPG: Milton Caniff Steve Canyon January 28, 1947
12. BITREA_170803_144.JPG: Milton Caniff Male Call January 30, 1944
13. BITREA_170803_146.JPG: Milton Caniff Terry and the Pirates December 28, 1943
14. BITREA_170803_152.JPG: Milton Caniff Aesop Up to Date 1925 When Caniff approached Billy Ireland for a job shortly after he enrolled at The Ohio State University in 1925, Ireland sent him away with instructions to make a drawing that would knock him off his feet. The young man returned the next day with this drawing and Ireland hired him. Billy Ireland's family returned this drawing to Caniff after his mentor's death in 1935.
15. BITREA_170803_156.JPG: National Cartoonists Society Billy DeBeck Award 1947 Milton Caniff was honored in 1947 with the National Cartoonists Society's first "cartoonist of the year" award. It was called the Billy DeBeck Award, in honor of the late creator of Barney Google.
16. BITREA_170803_160.JPG: Milton Caniff Self portrait, 1946?
17. BITREA_170803_172.JPG: Tom Corbet Space Cadet Rocket Ship Polaris 195-?
18. BITREA_170803_186.JPG: artist unknown storyboard drawing for Robin Hood 1973
19. BITREA_170803_189.JPG: Fred Moore animation drawing from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937
20. BITREA_170803_198.JPG: Robert Little "Idea Sketch by Robert Little for Song 'Couple in the Castle'" Mr. Bug Goes to Town 1941
21. BITREA_170803_202.JPG: Phil May sketchbook 188-?
22. BITREA_170803_204.JPG: James Gillray sketchbook 1801
23. BITREA_170803_211.JPG: Thomas Nast "This would, indeed, be a backward step!" Harper's Weekly, page 709 October 31, 1885 Thomas Nast's career began a slow decline after his triumphant campaign against New York City's notorious Tweed Ring in the late 1860s and early 1870s. Factors influencing this change included societal shifts following the Civil War, conflicts with management at Harper's Weekly, and the move from wood block printing of cartoons to a photochemical process that made the inadequacies of Nast's artistic technique more obvious. The paste-ones here alter the original published version of this cartoon and indicate that Nast may have repurposed it for another use.
24. BITREA_170803_216.JPG: E.C. Segar "Thimble's Theater" August 9, 1936 Newspaper tear sheet The mysterious creature Eugene the Jeep makes his debut.
25. BITREA_170803_222.JPG: Dick Calkins "Buck Rogers" Washington Post June 29, 1930 Newspaper tear sheet
26. BITREA_170803_224.JPG: Will Eisner Army Motors 1944?
27. BITREA_170803_233.JPG: Bill Mauldin Uncle Willie! 194-?
28. BITREA_170803_237.JPG: Anne Mergen "Isolationist, Huh?" March 10, 1941
29. BITREA_170803_239.JPG: Herblock "All right you guys -- back of the lines!" December 31, 1951
30. BITREA_170803_244.JPG: Willard Mullin Concert at Shea 196-? Mullin created the Brooklyn Bum symbol for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team. Shea Stadium was the home of the New York Mets after the Dodgers relocated to Los Angeles.
31. BITREA_170803_249.JPG: Ernie Bushmiller Nancy November 16, 1947
32. BITREA_170803_254.JPG: Chic Young Blondie May 2, 1956
33. BITREA_170803_257.JPG: Arnold Roth "Classics: The Elevator Shoe" Esquire 197-?
34. BITREA_170803_263.JPG: David Seavey $200 Bil. + Deficit May 11, 1983
35. BITREA_170803_268.JPG: Al Jaffee roughs for MAD Fold-in No. 231 MAD December 1984
36. BITREA_170803_281.JPG: Bil Keane Family Circus September 16, 1964
37. BITREA_170803_286.JPG: Lynda Barry Excellent Revenge June 8, 1995
38. BITREA_170803_292.JPG: June Brigman Power Pack September 2, 1984
39. BITREA_170803_302.JPG: Trina Robbins The Legend of Wonder Woman May 1986
40. BITREA_170803_305.JPG: Frank Miller
41. BITREA_170803_309.JPG: Eldon Dedini "Excellent, excellent..." The New Yorker, page 48 May 3, 1976
42. BITREA_170803_314.JPG: Roy Peterson "Doesn't know what is happening..." Vancouver Sun December 4, 1986
43. BITREA_170803_318.JPG: Nicole Hollander Sylvia August 11, 1984
44. BITREA_170803_320.JPG: Bill Griffith Zippy the Pinhead April 15, 1993
45. BITREA_170803_330.JPG: Lynn Johnston self-caricature 198-?
46. BITREA_170803_332.JPG: Dan Piraro self-caricature 1988
47. BITREA_170803_335.JPG: Al Hirschfeld self-caricature 1964
48. BITREA_170803_340.JPG: Bill Watterson Calvin and Hobbes October 17, 1993
49. BITREA_170803_345.JPG: Bid Blake Tiger March 13, 1994
50. BITREA_170803_348.JPG: Mike Peters Mother Goose and Grimm June 13, 1993
51. BITREA_170803_355.JPG: Derf (John Backderf) The City 1994
52. BITREA_170803_360.JPG: Dick Guindon Guindon July 19, 1999
53. BITREA_170803_363.JPG: Wiley (David Wiley Miller) Non-Sequitur May 11, 1992
54. BITREA_170803_366.JPG: Howard Cruse Stuck Rubber Baby 199-?
55. BITREA_170803_376.JPG: Jim Borgman "Cradle of Comic Strips" Ohio Magazine cover September 1994
56. BITREA_170803_382.JPG: Nick Anderson Iraq Exit May 15, 2004
57. BITREA_170803_391.JPG: Jon Whitcomb Good Housekeeping cover September 1941
58. BITREA_170803_405.JPG: Mort Walker Beetle Bailey June 10, 1962
59. BITREA_170803_409.JPG: Jeff Smith Bone 2, page 9 September 1991
60. BITREA_170803_413.JPG: Barbara Shermund The New Yorker May 26, 1928 "Yeah, I s'pose the best thing is to just get married and forget about love."
61. BITREA_170803_419.JPG: Frank King Gasoline Alley November 28, 1926 Newspaper clipping
62. BITREA_170803_424.JPG: Charles M. Schulz Peanuts November 13, 1955
63. BITREA_170803_429.JPG: Jeff MacNelly Shoe March 5, 1989
64. BITREA_170803_436.JPG: Script, Pencils, Inks: Todd McFarlane Letters: Rick Parker Spider-Man #5 December 1990
65. BITREA_170803_440.JPG: Chester Gould Dick Tracy September 8, 1968
66. BITREA_170803_445.JPG: Script, Pencils: Jack Kirby Inks: John Verpoorten and Frank Giacoia Letters: Jim Novak Captain America #206 February 1977
Wikipedia Description: Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

History

The Cartoon Library began in 1977 when the Milton Caniff Collection was donated to Ohio State and delivered to the School of Journalism, which was headed by Lucy Shelton Caswell, who became the Milton Caniff Reading Room first curator. Interviewed by Matt Tauber, Caswell detailed the Museum's origins and how she became involved:

“ Caniff loved his university very much and truly believed that without the education he got here he would not have achieved the things that he did. So his sense of gratitude to the university was palpable... Somebody had to be responsible to make sure it was all there, and all the boxes had my name on it. When funding was made available to work on Caniff, I was offered a six-month appointment. I’ve been here ever since. The original collection was housed in the Journalism building. When I started working with it, we were in two classrooms that had been converted, a door cut between them, so that one was a reading room and one was a storage area... At the time that I started, there weren’t really the kinds of resources to teach and learn about comics that we have now. So I basically had to make it up as we went along. There just wasn’t anything else out there. As a good librarian and scholar I started writing around to other places that said they had cartoon collections to see how they did things, because you don’t want to reinvent the wheel if somebody’s already figured it out. It turned out that nobody had the kind of thing that we had in the Caniff collection, i.e. so extensive, and the combination of art and manuscript materials. And nobody else was trying to grow it the way we were. ”

From two classrooms off the back hallway of the Journalism Building in 1977, the collection expanded to three classrooms and became part of the University Libraries. By 1989, the three classrooms were filled, and the Library moved into a larger space, eventually requiring the use of off-site storage as the collection continued to expand. (At that point, the facility was named the Cartoon Research Library.)

In 1992, United Media donated the Robert Roy Metz Collection of 83,034 original cartoons by 113 cartoonists.

In 1998, the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection was acquired from its director, Bill Blackbeard, giving the library the largest collection of newspaper comic strip tear sheets and clippings in the world. Six semi-trailer trucks transported this collection from California to Ohio.

In 2007, King Features Syndicate donated its proof sheet collection, consisting of over two million strips (a duplicate set was donated to Michigan State University's Comic Art Collection).

In June 2008, the collection of the International Museum of Cartoon Art (more than 200,000 originals with an estimated value of $20 million) was transferred to the Cartoon Library & Museum. Founded in 1973 by cartoonist Mort Walker, the IMCA collection includes a wide variety of original cartoon art (comic strips, comic books, animation, editorial, advertising, sport, caricature, greeting cards, graphic novels, and illustrations), display figures, toys and collectibles, plus works on film and tape, CDs and DVDs. The 2009 exhibition From Yellow Kid to Conan: American Cartoons from the International Museum of Cartoon Art Collection was held at the Cartoon Library and Museum from June to August.

In September 2009, it was announced that the Ohio State University Board of Trustees approved a new name, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, in recognition of a $7 million gift from an anonymous donor to support the renovation of Sullivant Hall. The Museum was named in honor of William Addison Ireland (1880 – May 29, 1935), a self-taught cartoonist (and native of Chillicothe, Ohio) well known throughout Ohio as Billy Ireland.
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