“The Library of Congress has acquired veteran cartoonist Art Wood’s enormous collection of 36,000 works by 2,800 artists, the largest private collection in the world.” Wood is arguably the most passionate collector and admirer of cartoon art in the world, and he has a long history at the Library, having first taken a job there at the age of 16. A successful cartoonist in his own right, Wood has always been fascinated with the medium, once writing that a good cartoon “scratches across the surface of life, whether the raw slums of the teeming city or the palatial mansion of the millionaire. It tells perhaps better than any medium what people are really like.”