Comics and Graphic Novels

Cartoonist for Washington Post & Washington Star from 1891-1907 and 1907-1949. Vast majority of the cartoons are political in content, and typically feature American presidents, congressmen and statesmen.

Selected digitized cartoons, caricatures, and biographies of artists producing cartoons from 1862 to 1955.

Call Number: Emerson Reference [X] NC 1766 .U52 D52 1998

Cartoons relating to presidential campaigns, from 1860-1912.

"The Library of Congress celebrates Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Herb Block (1909–2001) with a look at his remarkable seventy-two-year career (1929–2001). Herblock! includes eighty-two original cartoon drawings, primarily selected from the Library’s extensive Herbert L. Block Collection. These cartoons represent Block’s ability to wield his pen effectively and artfully, using it to condemn corruption and expose injustice, inequality, and immorality on topics including the Great Depression, the rise of fascism and World War II, communism and the Cold War, Senator Joseph McCarthy, race relations, Richard Nixon, the Reagan era, the 2000 election, and more."

Includes images of the Hale Scrapbook and the work of Lyonel Feininger, Nell Brinkley, Richard Felton Outcault, and various newspaper cartoon artists from 1898-1909.

Call Number: Emerson Reference [X] NC 1325 .W67 1999