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Papers, correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, and printed material relating to Dr. Bela Fabian's activities against the Communist government of Hungary. One microfilm reel of Hungarian political cartoons, including many caricatures of Fabian. Also, eighteen political cartoons by Bela and Ilona Fabian done at the time of the Cuban Missile crisis in 1961. These tend to be anti-Castro and anti-Khruschev.

The collection of noted cartoonist Joseph Farris, who had a nearly 50-year career at THE NEW YORKER, as well as in a plethora of other publications. It contains roughly 14,000 unpublished cartoons; over 7500 published cartoons; spot drawings; books that collected his work, or that he illustrated, or that he appeared in; book drafts; tear sheets; sketchbooks; contracts; correspondence; process materials; and more.

This collection belonged to an award-winning horror writer who worked for Mirage Studios (the TMNT studio) in the early 1990s, writing the TMNT newspaper strip. There is original art for never-reprinted newspaper strips (1993) complete with thumbnails, comic book manuscripts with editorial notation, story idea notebooks, minicomics produced by Mirage Studios, and manuscript materials for a host of secondary TMNT materials, including The Official TMNT Treasury. Many of the secondary materials are autographed by TMNT creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird.

Hubenthal kept a meticulous morgue, or image library, for reference purposes. In hundreds of folders, clearly labeled by topic, he collected drawings, illustrations, cartoons, advertisements, and more. This was the "technology" that all cartoonists and illustrators used before Google Images, but Hubenthal's is remarkable for its organization and its breadth. Animator J.J. Sedelmaier notes that in thirty-five years in advertising he has "seen various morgue applications, and this is the EPITOME - even beyond - of what an artist/designer's morgue was; a totally lost element of our culture, and getting more 'loster' every day." Many of the drawings are Hubenthal's own, for a variety of clients, and there are many other 20th-century cartoonists' work included as well.

Woodcuts, part colored, of cartoons drawn by Alfred Frueh (1880-1968) of theatrical personalities: Maude Adams, George Arliss, Ethel Barrymore, George M. Cohan, Katharine Cornell, John Drew, Robert Edson, Lionel Erroll, Lew Fields, Yvette Gilbert, William Gillette, Nat Goodwin, Annette Kellerman, Wilton Lackaye, Julia Marlowe, Nazimova, Olga Petrova, Will Rogers, Fritzi Schiff, Fred Stone, Sophie Tucker, and unidentified.

These interviews, conducted by John Benson with comics greats such as William M Gaines, Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, and more, were published in abridged form in fanzines such as SQUA TRONT and ALTER EGO. Originally on reel-to-reel tapes, they will be digitized, giving listeners an unedited glimpse into the views of legends at the heights of their careers.

Collections contains programs and other promotional material related to comics conventions, primarily in the United States. The San Diego Comic-Con is particularly well represented.

Comic art by such artists as Fred Fredericks; Giancarlo Malagutti; Joe Orlando; Jack Sparling, etc.