ARCHIVES AND COLLECTIONS
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.
National Portrait Gallery, United Kingdom
The National Portrait Gallery’s online database contains
information on approximately 34,000 works from the gallery’s collection, 11,500
of which are illustrated. The archive can be searched at http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/,
and contains a large number of portraits by and of cartoonists - including more
than 450 works by David Low.
National Art Library, United Kingdom
The National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum
in London has collections of comic and cartoon material, which are described on
its website at http://www.vam.ac.uk
The John Johnson Collection, United Kingdom
The political and satirical prints from the John Johnson
Collection of printed ephemera at the Bodleian Library in Oxford have been digitised,
and can be viewed on the web at http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/JJPP.html.
The main sequence of prints - Political Cartoons 1-6 - contains more than a
thousand items, and all of them can be viewed online. Images from the prints of
trades and professions in the John Johnson Collection are also available
online. They are accessible through http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/JJTP.html,
and contain some caricatures.
The Spellman Collection, United Kingdom
The Spellman Collection of Victorian Music Covers was donated
to Reading University Library by Doreen and Sidney Spellman in 1994, and some
800 sheet music covers, largely from this collection, can be searched and
viewed at http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/SCVMC.html.
Many of the covers are valuable social caricatures.
History of Advertising Trust, United Kingdom
The History of Advertising Trust has a unique archive of
British advertising material, including advertising cartoons. Its website at http://www.hatads.org.uk/ has a gallery of
images, and its archive can be searched online through http://www.lib.uea.ac.uk/HAT/
The Artists’ Papers Register, United Kingdom
The Artists’ Papers Register (APR) was launched in 1999, as
an initiative by the Association of Art Historians. It is a finding list of the
papers of artists, designers, and craftspeople located in the United Kingdom,
and includes both cartoonists and caricaturists. The online database can be
found at http://www.hmc.gov.uk/artists/. The APR is hosted by the National Register
of Archives (see entry), which contains additional related entries on
journalists, publishers, printers, etc.
National Register of Archives, United Kingdom
The National Register of Archives (NRA) is maintained by the
Historical Manuscripts Commission, which was established in 1869 to provide
information about the existence, location and nature
of manuscripts and records for the study of British history. The NRA contains
entries for some individuals and organisations important in the history of
cartooing and caricaturing, but not listed in the Artists’ Papers Register -
such as Mark Lemon (1809-1870) the editor of Punch, or Lord Beaverbrook (1879-1964) owner of the Daily Express and Evening Standard. The NRA’s online database can be found at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/.
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 Internationale
de la Bande Dessinée et de l’Image, France
The Centre Internationale
de la Bande Dessinée et de l’Image is a cartoon gallery, library, and museum
based in Angoulême, France, which has a website at http://www.cnbdi.fr/
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/.
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
collection and a website at http://www.tegneseriemuseet.dk/tegnemus/presentation.htm#COMICS.
An interesting history of Danish comics is included at http://www.tegneseriemuseet.dk/dkhist/dkhist.htm#COMICS
MUSEUM.
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. Images from the exhibition can
be found online at http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/index.html/
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://http://cartoons.osu.edu/index.php/, but copyright problems mean that few
cartoons are displayed.
National Museum of Cartoon Art, United States
The National Museum of
Cartoon Art was founded in 1974 and its collection of over 160,000 original drawings and 10,000 books embraces every genre of cartooning, including 1,000
hours of animation. The Museum’s website has details of the collection http://cartoon.org/
California State University, Oviatt Library, Northridge, United States
Chase Craig Collection 1924-1980 W. Chase Craig (1910 - 2002) illustrated, wrote and produced comic books from the mid 1930's until his retirement from Western Printing and Lithography in 1975. The collections’s website at http://library.csun.edu/Collections/SCA/SC/FG/fdgds4a.html/
ORGANISATIONS
The Cartoon Museum, United Kingdom
The Cartoon Museum 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 and it has a website at http://http://www.cartooncentre.com/l.
Cartoonist’s Club of Great Britain
Cartoonist’s Club of Great Britain was launched in London in
1960, with the aim “of encouraging social contacts between cartoonists...and to
promote the art of the cartoon.” It is a membership organisation, whose website
can be found at http://www.ccgb.org.uk/.
Cartoonists’ Guild (UK)
The Cartoonists’ Guild (UK) claims to represent “the best of
Britain's professional cartoon talent”, and its website at http://www.cartoonistsguild.com/
has pages for its members. Those who work in the field of
“Topical/Political/Social Comment” cartoons are listed at http://www.cartoonistsguild.com/edit.htm.
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://editorialcartoonists.com/
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.comicsresearch.org/CAC/.
Allen Ellis of the American Popular Culture Association published “Comic Art in
Scholarly Writing - A Citation Guide” in the International Journal of Comic Art 1.1
(Spring/Summer 1999), pp.33-41, which can also be found at http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~epk93002/CAC/cite.html. It includes notes on citing editorial
cartoons and newspaper strips.
WEB RESOURCES: POLITICAL CARTOONS
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 1860-1912” is at http://elections.harpweek.com/,
with cartoons and background information from the seven presidential elections
in the United States from 1860-1912. 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/redclyde/.
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.”
WEB RESOURCES: CARTOONISTS
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://igoto.co.uk/gc2
with fuller coverage of Steve Bell at http://igoto.co.uk/gc3
and Chris Riddell at http://igoto.co.uk/gc4.
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.
WEB RESOURCES: INDIVIDUAL CARTOONISTS
Baldy Editorial Cartoons
Some 2,500 editorial cartoons from the Clifford H. Baldowski
Collection at the University of Georgia can be viewed at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/baldy.html.
Known by the pen-name of "Baldy," Baldowski drew cartoons for the Augusta Chronicle, Miami Herald, and Atlanta
Constitution from 1946 until 1982. Most of his work refers to American politics,
but some touches on relations with Britain.
Patrick Blower - The Blower Archive
The Blower Archive can be found at http://www.patrickblower.com/.
It contains Patrick Blower’s cartoons from the News of the World, Sunday Times and the London Evening Standard.
Frank Boyle of the Edinburgh
Evening News
Frank Boyle’s editorial cartoons have been running in the Edinburgh Evening News since March 1999,
under the heading “Boyling Point”. A selection of the most recent can be found
on his website at http://www.boylecartoon.co.uk/main.html.
Carl Giles Tribute Pages
Stephen Adams maintains a website dedicated to the Daily Express cartoonist Carl Giles at http://giles.clickhere2.net/index.html. This includes a database of images,
bibliographic information, a guide to the long-running characters in Giles’
cartoons, and - at http://giles.clickhere2.net/database.htm - a chronological listing of the 6,000 Daily Express cartoons that were
reprinted in the Giles Cartoons
annuals and albums.
John Glashan
A website dedicated to the work of artist and cartoonist
John Glashan (1927 - 1999) is at http://www.johnglashan.com/ Glashan drew single frame cartoons for many
publications, but is perhaps best remembered for his “Genius” strip, which ran
in The Observer magazine from 1978 to
1983, featuring Anode Enzyme and his patron Lord Doberman.
Tom Halliday
Tom Halliday is an Irish political cartoonist and
caricaturist published in The Sunday
Independent and The Southern Star.
He has web pages at http://homepage.tinet.ie/~tomhalliday/TomHalliday.htm/.
Gerard Hoffnung
The Gerard Hoffnung Website can be found at http://www.musicweb.uk.net/hoffnung/,
celebrating the life of this cartoonist, musician, and broadcaster.
Tony Husband
The joke and strip cartoonist Tony Husband does work for Private Eye and The Times, and has a website at http://www.tonyhusband.co.uk/.
R. F. Outcault and the Yellow Kid
In 1894 Richard Felton Outcault created the “Yellow Kid”,
but within a couple of years the character was appearing in both the New York World and its rival the New York Journal - giving rise to the
expression “Yellow Journalism.” The R. F. Outcault Society's Yellow Kid Site
includes an article by Richard D. Olson on “R. F. Outcault, The Father of the
American Sunday Comics, and the Truth About the Creation of the Yellow Kid” at http://www.neponset.com/yellowkid/history.htm
Charles M. Schultz
A biography of Charles M. Schultz, creator of “Peanuts”, can
be found at http://www.schulzmuseum.org/.
on the website of the official Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa
Rosa, California, which opened in 2002.
George Studdy and “Bonzo the Dog”
George Studdy began drawing “Bonzo the Dog” in The Sketch in 1922, and the character
gained enormous popularity, appearing on postcards and souvenirs as well as in
twenty six animated cartoons released in 1924 and 1925. Richard Fitzpatrick’s
George Studdy and Bonzo web site at http://www.bonzo.me.uk/
includes a useful biography of Studdy at http://www.bonzo.me.uk/bio.htm,
with many linked images.
Bill Tidy
The website of Bill Tidy, one of the most prolific British
cartoonists, can be found at http://www.billtidy.com/
Martyn Turner of the Irish
Times
Martyn Turner’s cartoons for the Irish Times appear on the paper’s website at http://www.ireland.com/cartoons/turner/, along with selections of past cartoons on
subjects such as “The North”. More of Turner’s editorial cartoons appear on
Daryl Cagle’s website at http://cagle.slate.msn.com/politicalcartoons/PCcartoons/turner.asp.
Arthur Watts Remembered
This family tribute to the artist and illustrator Arthur
Watts includes examples of his work for Punch
from 1912 to 1935, and can be seen at http://www.arthurwatts.com/index.html.
WEB RESOURCES: GENERAL
European Comics on the Web
European Comics on the Web is available at http://ifarm.nl/strips/
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/index.lasso.
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.
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
OTHER RESOURCES
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://www.chrisbeetles.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/.
It is part of the main New Yorker
site which also markets reproductions of cartoons from the magazine.
Punch
Magazine, United Kingdom
An archive of undated Punch
cartoons can be found at 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.comics.com/,
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/.
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
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