Comics in Australia - Collections

Collections

National Library of Australia

• Australian Comics Collection, 1930s-1950s (51 boxes, ~550 issues), includes items formerly in the collections of Mick Stone and Graham McGee.
• John Ryan collection of Australian comic books, ca. 1940-1960 (9.25 m. / 66 boxes + 2 fol. Items)
• McGee collection of Australian comic books, ca. 1940-1960 (312 boxes + 5 fol. Items)
• Archie Comics, 1987-1993 (25 boxes)
• Michael Hill Collection of Australian Comics, 1990-2000 (435 items)
• Nick Henderson Zine Collection, 1980–2010, ca. 2000 vols., including many comic zines
• Nick Henderson Comic Collection, 1960s-1990s, ca. 350 items, includes Australian and Australian reprints of American comics
• Geoff Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings, 1978-, ca. 7290 drawings)
• George Molnar collection, 1955-1991 (ca. 2472 drawings)
• Alan Moir collection of cartoons and drawings, 1972-2009 (2008 drawings)
• Ward O'Neill collection, 1987-2007 (716 drawings)
• Stan Cross Archive of cartoons and drawings, 1912-1974 (4937 drawings + 71 photographs)
• Judy Horacek collection of cartoons, 1996-2006 (80 drawings)
• Matilda collection, 1981-1993 (ca. 270 cartoons, ca. 500 photographs, 2 sculptures, ca. 2 posters)
• Stewart McCrae cartoon collection, ca. 1963-1980 (648 drawings)
• Cartoons by WEG, 1970-1990 (104 drawings)
• John Spooner cartoon collection, 1989-2008 (58 drawings)
• Arthur Horner Collection of political cartoons, (211 drawings)
• Percy Deane Collection, ca. 1910-1930 (68 pen and ink drawings) caricatures of Australian politicians published in The Bulletin, by cartoonists such as Sir David Low, Livingston Hopkins, Tom Glover and Dennis Connelly.
• Comic artists and illustrators oral history project, 1995-, (8 digital audio tapes) interviewer, Ros Bowden
• Papers of Nan Fullarton, circa 1940-circa 1969 (4.7 m, 6 boxes), author, illustrator, comic strip artist and ballet costume designer.
• Papers of Stan Cross, 1880s-1980s (0.56 m, 4 boxes)

State Library of New South Wales

• The Andrew M. Potts Australian independent comic book and fanzine collection, 1989-2003 (3 boxes, 172 items)
• Collection of Australian reprints of American and English comics, 1940-1967 (58 boxes)
• Bulletin drawings, 1886-1960 (18,070 drawings), artists include Norman Lindsay, Sir David Low, George Lambert, Geoffrey Townshend, and Unk White.
• Australian Black and White Artists' Club Collection of cartoons and caricature drawings, 1920s; 1943-1991 (approximately 4,000 drawings, watercolour sketches, duotone prints, bromide negatives and bromide prints)
• Cartoons and caricatures of current events and public figures by Livingston Hopkins and Austin O. Spare, ca. 1893-1909 (117 drawings and 1 reproduction on 21 sheets)
• Caricatures and cartoons by Bill Leak, ca. 1987-1991 (100 drawings)

State Library of Victoria

• Kevin Patrick Collection of Australian Comics, 1970-2005 (~170 titles)