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Ohio State Univ houses nation's biggest cartoon library [audio 10min]

Lucy Shelton Caswell is curator of The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library -- the nation's largest collection of cartoons -- whose mission is to develop and provide access to a comprehensive collection of materials documenting American printed cartoon art. This includes editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, sports and magazine cartoons, but not animation.
Read entire article at NPR "Talk of the Nation"