Ohio State Cartoon Library/Museum Accepting Donations for Future Home's Repair

By: E&P Staff Jean Schulz, the wife of departed "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz, in April contributed $1 million to the renovation of Sullivant Hall, the future home of the Ohio State Cartoon Library and Museum. But the museum still needs your help.

Mrs. Schulz has also pledged to match an additional $2.5 million by other donors. The university is now taking online donations, here.

The new library and museum is the world?s largest collection of original cartoon art, with more than 400,000 works and artifacts from all genres of cartoon art, along with 36,000 books; 51,000 serial titles, 3,000 linear feet of manuscript materials, and 2.5 million comic strip clippings and tearsheets.

Located adjacent to the Wexner Center for the Arts, Sullivant Hall is in great need of repair. Its renovation will provide 40,000 square feet of space for the new Cartoon Library and Museum that will include a spacious reading room for researchers, three museum-quality galleries, and expanded storage with state-of-the-art environmental and security controls, according to The Daily Cartoonist.