In early January 2006, a stranger called The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library to say that she had found some old cartoons tucked in a stack of boxes that had been sitting in her family’s business for decades. When it was opened, a treasure appeared.

The Hale Scrapbook (so designated by historian and collector Draper Hill, from whom it was acquired) dates from approximately 1746 to 1830 and includes engravings by the leading artists of Georgian England, letters, newspaper clippings, woodcuts, broadsides, sketches, paintings, and other miscellaneous materials.

Lyonel Feininger is best known as a painter and a founder of the famous Bauhaus school of art and architecture; however, he was also a pioneer of the comic strip. Although he is not as well-known for his work in comics, his strips play an important role in the history of comic art.

In 1907, at the tender age of twenty-two, Nell Brinkley came to New York to draw for the Hearst syndicate. Within a year, she had become a household name. Anyone who loves silent movies can enjoy the Golden Eyes series, a gorgeously drawn page turner.

In the late 1890s and early 1900s, cartoons in American newspapers were an evolving art form. Highly talented artists were given generous page space on which to work their experiments in composition and dialogue. Many of these cartoonists were also painters, sculptors, and illustrators.

The Lindsay scrapbook (the name D. Lindsay is written on the front flyleaf) contains fifty-two full color chromolithographs—caricatures of London celebrities, politicians, and royalty—that were all executed by the well-known French artist "Faustin" (Faustin Betbeder) and appeared in the London Figaro.

Thomas Nast was a celebrity. This digital album is an informational site dedicated to Thomas Nast which contains a biography, timeline, cartoon portfolio, bibliography, and a teacher's guide.

Richard Felton Outcault (1863-1928) created Hogan’s Alley, which is considered the first commercially successful newspaper comic strip. It featured Mickey Dugan, better known as the Yellow Kid.