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.
| Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum | |
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| 39.9995°N 83.0088°W | |
| Location | Columbus, Ohio |
| Type | Research library |
| Scope | Comic art |
| Established | 1977 |
| Branch of | Ohio State University Libraries |
| Other information | |
| Director | Jenny E. Robb, Curator and Associate Professor Lucy Caswell, Founder and former Curator Wendy Pflug, Associate Curator and Assistant Professor Caitlin McGurk, Associate Curator for Outreach and Assistant Professor |
| Website | cartoons.osu.edu |
| Public transit access | 1, 2, 31, Night Owl |
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.