Cartoons at the Library of Congress?

Yes, there is a cartoon collection, a large one, at the Library of Congress!

Check out this link: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/cartoon_research.html

The items in this collection are described as, "Spanning four centuries, they range from seventeenth-century Dutch political prints to contemporary caricatures by David Levine, and include drawings for cartoons and comic strips, printed satires and caricatures, comic books, illustrated satirical journals, and comic ephemera."

Links of interest

Illustrators, cartoonists, have a look at: Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog.

I found reference to author Keri Smith from Drawn! in relation to her book Wreck This Journal. While the Art Librarian, much less the bookcharmer, cannot endorse the verb "wreck" anywhere in relation to anything bookshaped, I find I am much intrigued by the role of employing destruction as a method to increasing expression.

Author Keri Smith has some other glorious suggestions here: http://www.kerismith.com/blog/