Cartoon & Comics Research

Here are a few general resources about comic strips and their creators:

• American newspaper comics : an encyclopedic reference guide / Allan Holtz
• Anything can happen in a comic strip : centennial reflections on an American art form / [introductory essay by] M. Thomas Inge
• The art of the funnies : an aesthetic history / Robert C. Harvey
• The Cavalcade of American comics : a history of comic strips from 1896 / The Newspaper Comics Council
• Children of the yellow kid : the evolution of the American comic strip
• Comic books and strips : an information sourcebook / by Randall W. Scott
• The comics / by Coulton Waugh ; with an introduction by M. Thomas Inge
• Comics : the complete collection / Brian Walker
• Comics and their creators : life stories of American cartoonists / by Martin Sheridan
• Comics through time : a history of icons, idols, and ideas / M. Keith Booker, editor
• Featuring the funnies : one hundred years of the comic strip / introduction by Mort Walker
• Forging a new medium : the comic strip in the nineteenth century / Pascal Lefèvre and Charles Dierick (eds.)
• The funnies : 100 years of American comic strips / Ron Goulart
• The great American comic strip : one hundred years of cartoon art / Judith O'Sullivan
• History of the Comic Strip / Kunzle, David
• How comic strips are made : why they have an enormous influence on American thought and custom / by Russ Winterbotham
• Icons of the American comic book : from Captain America to Wonder Woman / Randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith, editors
• 100 years of American newspaper comics : an illustrated encyclopedia / edited by Maurice Horn
• Reading the funnies : essays on comic strips / Donald Phelps
• A rejection of order : the development of the newspaper comic strip in America, 1830-1920 / by Elsa A. Nystrom
• See you in the funny papers : American life as reflected in the newspaper comic strip / [Lucy Shelton Caswell]
• Understanding the funnies : critical interpretations of comic strips / edited by Gail W. Pieper, with Kenneth D. Nordin and Joseph Ursitti
• Women and the comics / by Trina Robbins and Catherine Yronwode