Washinton, DC.- The Library of Congress is pleased to present “Timely and Timeless: New Comic Art Acquisitions” on view from September 15th through March 10th 2012. Political and social satire, comic-strip and comic-book drawings, New Yorker magazine illustrations and graphic narratives — original cartoon art that was added to the Library of Congress collections during the past decade — will all be featured in the new exhibition. “Timely and Timeless” celebrates and demonstrates the multi-faceted development and impressive growth of the comic art collections at the Library of Congress. The 48 works on display are grouped primarily by genre, including editorial cartoons, caricatures, comic strips, cover art and humor cartoons, comic-book drawings and graphic narratives.  Among the cartoonists represented are historical masters James Gillray and Honoré Daumier, as well as modern and contemporary creators such as Jazz Age cartoonist John Held, Jr.; African American artist Oliver Wendell Harrington; New Yorker cartoonists Charles Addams and Roz Chast; and comic-strip creators Bill Griffith and Aaron McGruder.