Library Cartoons: An annotated bibliography

Each entry has up to three parts:
Original date: If I can find one. A question mark indicates a guess.
Source: Again, if I can find one. Possibly paper, possibly Internet, possibly both.
Description: A link to my description of the cartoon.

In no particular order (well, alphabetical and chronological, with accession-order tendencies in the linked pages), we have:

A-E	F	G-R	S-Z
Adam Big Nate Blondie Bloom County Calvin and Hobbes Dilbert	Family Circus Far Side For Better or For Worse Fox Trot Frank and Ernest Funky Winkerbean Garfield	Hagar the Horrible Momma Mother Goose and Grimm Nancy Peanuts Rhymes With Orange Robotman	Shoe Speed Bump Tom the Dancing Bug Tumbleweeds Unshelved Wildwood Zits

Scott Adams, Dilbert
http://www.dilbert.com/

Original date: 28 May 1989
Source: Scott Adams, Always Postpone Meetings with Time-Wasting Morons (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1992) 28-29.
Description: The perils of reading

Original date: 19 February 1990 (?)
Source: Scott Adams, Shave the Whales (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1994) 58.
Description: Ask the librarian

Original date: 20 February 1990 (?)
Source: Scott Adams, Shave the Whales (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1994) 58.
Description: A date with a librarian - part one

Original date: 21 February 1990 (?)
Source: Scott Adams, Shave the Whales (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1994) 58.
Description: A date with a librarian - part two

Source: Scott Adams, Seven Years of Highly Defective People (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 1997) 157.
Source: Scott Adams, Bring Me the Head of Willy the Mailboy! (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1995) 56.
Description: Unexpected answer

Bill Amend, Fox Trot
http://www.foxtrot.com

Source: Bill Amend, The Return of the Lone Iguana (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1996) 24.
Description: Educational TV?

Source: Bill Amend, The Return of the Lone Iguana (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1996) 85.
Description: Reason to whisper, #384

Source: Bill Amend, At Least This Place Sells T-Shirts (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1996) 69.
Description: Internet attractions

Original date: 12 October 1996
Source: Bill Amend, Come Closer, Roger, There's a Mosquito on Your Nose (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 1997) 69.
Description: Kickstool, anyone?

Original date: 3 November 1999
Source: Bill Amend, Death by Field Trip (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2001) 26.
Description: Faulty math

Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum, Unshelved
http://www.unshelved.com/

Source: http://www.unshelved.com/
Description: Unshelved

Brian Basset, Adam@home
http://www.gocomics.com/adamathome/

Original date: 5 November 1998
Description: Reshelving

Original date: 4 January 1999
Description: Used books

Original date: 19 May 1999
Description: Related topics

Tom Batiuk, Funky Winkerbean
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/fwinker/about.htm

Original date: 22 February 1998
Description: Research distractions

Original date: 17 February 1999
Source: http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/funky_breast_images/Funky_19990217.gif
Description: Filtered research, part 1

Original date: 18 February 1999 Source: http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/funky_breast_images/Funky_19990218.gif

Description: Filtered research, part 2

Ruben Bolling, Tom the Dancing Bug
http://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/

Original date: 26 August 2000
Source: http://www.salon.com/comics/boll/2000/08/24/boll/index.html
Description: Library System....

Berke Breathed, Bloom County

Source: Berke Breathed, Bloom County Babylon (Boston: Little, Brown, 1986) 67.
Description: Binkley's anxiety closet

Source: Berke Breathed, 'Toons for Our Times (Boston: Little, Brown, 1984) 25.
Description: Right to privacy

Source: Berke Breathed, 'Toons for Our Times (Boston: Little, Brown, 1984) 32.
Source: Berke Breathed, Bloom County Babylon (Boston: Little, Brown, 1986) 132.
Description: Opus's ode to reading

Source: Berke Breathed, 'Toons for Our Times (Boston: Little, Brown, 1984) 43.
Description: The nature of reality

Source: Berke Breathed, Bloom County Babylon (Boston: Little, Brown, 1986) 169.
Description: Library research

Original date: 1987 (?)
Source: Berke Breathed, Tales Too Ticklish to Tell (Boston: Little, Brown, 1988) 29.
Description: Cruel and unusual punishment

Original date: 1987 (?)
Source: Berke Breathed, Tales Too Ticklish to Tell (Boston: Little, Brown, 1988) 57.
Description: Book selection

Original date: 26 February 1988 (?)
Source: Berke Breathed, Tales Too Ticklish to Tell (Boston: Little, Brown, 1988) 108.
Description: Source materials

Chris Browne, Hagar the Horrible
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/hagar/about.htm

Original date: 5 April 2004
Description: Crime and punishment

Dave Coverly, Speed Bump
http://www.speedbump.com/
http://www.creators.com/comics_show.cfm?comicname=bmp
http://www.unitedmedia.com/creators/speedbump/

Source: Dave Coverly, Speed Bump (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2000) 86.
Description: Library vs. Bookstore

Original date: 5 February 2001
Source: http://www.speedbump.com/librarian.html
Description: New job title

Original date: 28 May 2002
Description: Binge thinker

Original date: 17 July 2004
Description: Sign language in the children's section

Jim Davis, Garfield
http://www.garfield.com/

Original date: 24 October 1998
Description: Retaliation

Source: Jim Davis, Mark Acey, Jim Kraft, Garfield's insults, put-downs & slams (New York: Ballantine, 1994) 69.
Description: Librarian career jeer

Guy and Brad Gilchrist, Nancy
http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/nancy/

Original date: 2 October 1998
Description: Homework help

Original date: 30 April 1999
Description: Underdue rebates

Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse
http://www.fborfw.com/

Source: Lynn Johnston, Just One More Hug (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1984) 98.
Description: Changing roles

Source: Lynn Johnston, Just One More Hug (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1984) 116.
Description: The truth comes out

Source: Lynn Johnston, Just One More Hug (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1984) 116.
Description: Silence is golden

Original date: 21 March 1985 (?)
Source: Lynn Johnston, The Last Straw (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1985) 100.
Description: Modest accomplishments

Original date: 14 May 1985 (?)
Source: Lynn Johnston, The Last Straw (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1985) 114.
Description: Riddle time

Original date: November 1985 (?)
Source: Lynn Johnston, Keep the Home Fries Burning (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1986) 49.
Description: Reeling them in

Original date: 29 November 1994 (?)
Source: Lynn Johnston, Starting from Scratch (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1995) 83.
Description: An apt analogy

Original date: 10 January 1995 (?)
Source: Lynn Johnston, Starting from Scratch (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1995) 99.
Description: Heavy reading

Bil Keane, Family Circus
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/familyc/

Original date: 5? 15? August 1997
Description: Caring for books

Original date: 10 October 1998
Description: Checking books out

Original date: 26 October 1998
Description: Internet research

Gary Larson, Far Side

Source: Gary Larson, Night of the Crash-Test Dummies (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1988) 52.
Source: Gary Larson, The complete Far Side (Kansas City, Andrews McMeel, 2003) Vol. 2, p. 78. (8/19/87)
Description: Hell's Library

Source: Gary Larson, Last Chapter and Worse (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1996) 13.
Source: Gary Larson, The complete Far Side (Kansas City, Andrews McMeel, 2003) Vol. 2, p. 563. (7/26/94)
Description: Secret desires

Original date: 4 February 1999
Description: The librarian of his dreams

Original date: 5 February 1999
Description: Checkout embarrassment

Original date: 6 February 1999
Description: The imagination of the beholder

Original date: 8 February 1999
Description: The other Melville

Original date: 9 February 1999
Description: Shakespeare and love

Original date: 10 February 1999
Description: "Olive juice?"

Original date: 11 February 1999
Description: It's not what you say...

Original date: 12 February 1999
Description: Back in circulation

Original date: 1 November 1999
Description: Useful slang

Original date: 9 February 2000
Description: Presidential qualities

Original date: 7 January 1999
Description: Thoughtful gift

Original date: 20 October 1999
Description: Job security
Source: http://www.rhymeswithorange.com/home.php?date=19991020

Original date: 12 December 1999
Source: Hilary Price, Pithy seedy pulpy juicy (Toronto: ECW Press, 2007) in the yellow-edged pages (Work & School). It isn't labelled, but if you count the Work & School title page as 1, it's on page 15.
Source: http://www.rhymeswithorange.com/home.php?date=19991212
Description: Promoting library services

Original date: 30 April 1986
Source: Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1987) 79.
Source: http://www.mycomicspage.com/feature/calvinandhobbes/?date=19860430 (subscription required)
Description: Dictionary

Original date: 9 May 1986
Source: Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1987) 83.
Source: http://www.mycomicspage.com/feature/calvinandhobbes/?date=19860509 (subscription required)
Description: Magazines

Original date: 26 December 1986
Source: Bill Watterson, Something under the Bed Is Drooling (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1988) 60.
Source: http://www.mycomicspage.com/feature/calvinandhobbes/?date=19861226 (subscription required)
Description: Overdue

Original date: 7 December 1987
Source: Bill Watterson, Yukon Ho! (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1989) 93.
Source: http://www.mycomicspage.com/feature/calvinandhobbes/?date=19871207 (subscription required)
Description: Tortellini

Original date: 9 December 1987
Source: Bill Watterson, Yukon Ho! (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1989) 94.
Source: http://www.mycomicspage.com/feature/calvinandhobbes/?date=19871209 (subscription required)
Description: Library behavior

Original date: 30 January 1988
Source: Bill Watterson, Yukon Ho! (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1989) 116.
Source: http://www.mycomicspage.com/feature/calvinandhobbes/?date=19880130 (subscription required)
Description: Guilt trip

Original date: 4 July 1989
Source: Bill Watterson, The Revenge of the Baby-Sat (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1991) 94.
Source: Bill Watterson, The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1992) 99.
Source: http://www.mycomicspage.com/feature/calvinandhobbes/?date=19890704 (subscription required)
Description: Book summary

Original date: 24 March 1990
Source: Bill Watterson, Scientific Progress Goes "Boink" (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1991) 86.
Source: Bill Watterson, The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1992) 214.
Source: http://www.mycomicspage.com/feature/calvinandhobbes/?date=19900324 (subscription required)
Description: Science

Original date: 27 March 1992
Source: Bill Watterson, The Days Are Just Packed (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1993) 49.
Source: http://www.mycomicspage.com/feature/calvinandhobbes/?date=19920327 (subscription required)
Description: Word definition

Original date: 11 June 1992
Source: Bill Watterson, The Days Are Just Packed (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1993) 95.
Source: http://www.mycomicspage.com/feature/calvinandhobbes/?date=19920611 (subscription required)
Description: Synonyms

Original date: 16 October 1992
Source: Bill Watterson, The Days Are Just Packed (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1993) 165.
Source: http://www.mycomicspage.com/feature/calvinandhobbes/?date=19921016 (subscription required)
Description: Girls

Original date: 30 March 1993
Source: Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1994) 88.
Source: http://www.mycomicspage.com/feature/calvinandhobbes/?date=19930330 (subscription required)
Description: Art appreciation

Original date: 17 June 1993
Source: Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1994) 133.
Source: http://www.mycomicspage.com/feature/calvinandhobbes/?date=19930617 (subscription required)
Description: Encyclopedia

Dan Wright and Tom Spurgeon, Wildwood

Original date: 20 February 2002
Description: The bookmobile

Dean Young and Denis Lebrun, Blondie
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/blondie/about.htm

Original date: 30 September 1998
Description: Attention span

Original date: 8 June 2002
Description: Overdue

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Library Cartoons: An annotated bibliography

Scott Adams, Dilbert
http://www.dilbert.com/

Bill Amend, Fox Trot
http://www.foxtrot.com

Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum, Unshelved
http://www.unshelved.com/

Brian Basset, Adam@home
http://www.gocomics.com/adamathome/

Tom Batiuk, Funky Winkerbean
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/fwinker/about.htm

Ruben Bolling, Tom the Dancing Bug
http://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/

Berke Breathed, Bloom County

Chris Browne, Hagar the Horrible
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/hagar/about.htm

Dave Coverly, Speed Bump
http://www.speedbump.com/
http://www.creators.com/comics_show.cfm?comicname=bmp
http://www.unitedmedia.com/creators/speedbump/

Jim Davis, Garfield
http://www.garfield.com/

Guy and Brad Gilchrist, Nancy
http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/nancy/

Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse
http://www.fborfw.com/

Bil Keane, Family Circus
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/familyc/

Gary Larson, Far Side

Mell Lazarus, Momma
http://www.creators.com/comics/momma.html

Jeff MacNelly, Shoe
http://www.macnelly.com/
http://www.gocomics.com/shoe/

Jim Meddick, Robotman
http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/robotman/

Lincoln Peirce, Big Nate
http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/bignate/

Mike Peters, Mother Goose and Grimm
http://www.grimmy.com/

Hilary B. Price, Rhymes With Orange
http://www.rhymeswithorange.com/

T.K. Ryan, Tumbleweeds
http://www.tumbleweeds.com/

Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts
http://www.peanuts.com/

Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman, Zits
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/zits/about.htm

Bob Thaves, Frank and Ernest
http://www.frankandernest.com/

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
http://www.calvinandhobbes.com/

Dan Wright and Tom Spurgeon, Wildwood

Dean Young and Denis Lebrun, Blondie
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/blondie/about.htm