Selected Internet Sites

Classic Comic Books
http://members.aol.com/MG4273/comics.htm
A home page containing reviews and articles about comic strips and comic books, and articles on their writers and artists.

Classics Central
http://www.classicscentral.com/
Web Guide to Classics Illustrated Comics.

Comic Arts Collection
http://www.library.vcu.edu/jbc/speccoll/comicbk1.html
Web site of the Special Collections and Archives of the James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, which houses "nearly 10,000 comic books dating primarily from the 1970s-1990s; the papers and drawings of two Richmond political cartoonists and several other related manuscript collections; an extensive collection of reference journals donated by Dr. M. Thomas Inge, an expert on popular culture and the history of the comic arts; and a growing collection of reference books supporting the study of all areas of the comic arts."

Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
http://www.cbldf.org/
A "non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of First AMendment rights for members of the comics community."

Comic Books for Young Adults
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/lml/comics/pages/
This "site is designed to introduce librarians (as well as teachers and parents) to the rich, diverse offerings from today's comics book publishers, and to encourage the acquisition of comic books and graphic novels in libraries serving young adults."

Comic Books: Internet Resources
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/asl/guides/comics.html#meta
Extensive directory of resources arranged by category. From the State University of New York, University at Buffalo.

Comics Journal
http://www.tcj.com
"The Comics Journal is a magazine that covers the comics medium from an arts-first perspective. We are owned and operated by Fantagraphics Books, a leading publisher of alternative comic books ."

Comics Research Bibliography
http://rpi.edu/~bulloj/comxbib.html
More than 10.000 entries related to comic books, comic strips, animation, caricature, cartoons, bandes desinees, and other topics.

Friends of Lulu
http://www.friends-lulu.org/
"Friends of Lulu is a national nonprofit organization whose purpose is to promote and encourage female readership and participation in the comic book industry."

Grand Comic-Book Database
http://www.comics.org/
Searches title, publisher, year, book, or story and finds the work of a particular artist, writer, letterer.

Guardians of the North: The National Superhero in Canadian Comic-Book Art
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/superheroes/
Historical overview of comic book costumed heroes in Canada. In English and French. From the National library of Canada.

Lambiek Comiclopedia
http://www.lambiek.net/artists/index.htm
This site features "an illustrated compendium of over 4,000 international comic artists with biographies and artwork examples."

Masters of American Comics
http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/94/
Exhibition of "15 artists who shaped the development of the American comic strip and comic book during the past century."

Michican State Univesities Libraries: Comic Art Collection
http://www.lib.msu.edu/comics/aboutcom.htm
MSU's "Comic Art Collection holds over 150,000 items. Most of these items are comic books, but also included are nearly 1,000 books of collected newspaper comic strips, and several thousand books and periodicals about comics. Although some archival material and a few dozen pieces of original comic book and comic strip art are held, the focus of the collection is on published work, in an effort to present a complete picture of what the audience has seen over the years of the twentieth century. Local students and advanced scholars from around the world find this collection to be the primary library resource for the study of U.S. comic book publications."

Moore Collection: Underground Comix
http://www.lib.calpoly.edu/spec_coll/comix/
Database features bibliograpic records of over 1,000 "underground" comic books.