Your donation helps make our materials accessible to researchers, educators, students and scholars across the world.
Featured Fund for Day of Giving
The Cartoon Library and Museum Support Fund supports our library broadly, allowing flexibility in addressing needs and challenges related to the collection. The fund supports a wide range of emerging needs on a rolling basis, including the acquisition and preservation of materials, the creation of educational programming, and increased access to our collection around the world.
Why Your Gift Matters
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum is the foremost center for the study and preservation of comics and cartoon art, proudly stewarding the largest collection of related materials in the world — your support makes it possible! Our galleries and reading room are free and open to all, thanks to the generosity of donors like you. With your help, we can continue to inspire the study and appreciation of comics and cartoon art as we collect, preserve and make accessible materials that represent a diversity of voices for research, teaching, exhibitions and educational programming.
Impact in Action
Gifts to this fund impact every aspect of our operation, including:
- Helping us acquire, catalog and preserve cartoon-related materials including books, periodicals, original art and manuscript collections
- Supporting our educational programming, including exhibitions, presentations, workshops, and online resources for teachers and researchers
- Assisting us in making our collection accessible to researchers and scholars around the world
Your impact can also be seen in the size and scope of our collection, which includes:
- 300,000 original cartoons
- 107,000 comic books, magazines, and journals
- 63,000 books and graphic novels
- 6,300 boxes of archival materials
- 2.5 million comic strip clippings
About the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum inspires the study and appreciation of cartoon and comics art. As a cultural heritage center, it is now the largest and most comprehensive academic research facility documenting printed cartoon art. It functions as an archive, a research library, and a museum. Our library promotes the study and appreciation of cartoon art by sponsoring a variety of educational programs and publications including exhibitions, catalogs, lectures, seminars, panel discussions, workshops and conferences.
