Cartoons Against the Axis

http://www.moccany.org/axis/index.html

Cartoons Against the Axis was an exhibit which originally occurred at the time of World War II. It circulated through a number of galleries, including MoMA, and from what I gather, was a humble offering to boost patriotism, morale, etc.
The widow of the artist who spearheaded the original exhibit contacted the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) in New York, and they agreed to "re-mount" a portion of the exhibit.

SELECTION DECISIONS:
The original exhibit consisted of over 200 pieces. In its current form Cartoons Against the Axis displays roughly a quarter of those. MoCCA enlisted the aid of Art Spiegelman (who, incidentally, is the author/artist of "Maus"--an award-winning graphic novel pertaining to the Holocaust) to help select which of the pieces to re-mount. In an article linked to the website, Spiegelman comments on the history of the exhibit, as well as the selection process:

"Culled from the over 200 cartoons in the 1942 exhibit, the current show has tried to retain some of the xenophobic—even racist—anti-Japanese images, as well as some of the embarrassingly blunt propaganda and even some rather clunky drawings in order to offer a genuinely fair sample of what cartooning and our nation were like in their glory days."

The online exhibit is only a sampling of the MoCCA exhibit--one cartoon from each artist. I assume they chose the most recognizable or engaging from each.

METADATA:
The metadata varies from piece to piece. Each offers at least the artist. Some also include a title, year, and materials used (pen, ink, whiteout, etc.). Additionally, linked to that metadata is a brief bio of the artist.

OBJECT CHARACTERISTICS:
The website is relatively easy to navigate. One can choose either to "Stroll through" the online gallery, or navigate by artist or thumbnail of the featured cartoon. The size of the images themselves do leave some to be desired, especially in certain cases where captions are featured. While on the one hand the images are probably larger than one would most likely see them in the physical gallery, it's not so in depth that one would be able to distinguish brush strokes and the like.

INTENDED AUDIENCE:
My guess is that MoCCA created this online exhibition in an attempt to advertise the physical one in the gallery, as a sort of bait for people who may be interested in the history of comics or popular history of the World War II era. Being a smaller, niche museum I would assume their funding is significantly less than other larger museums, and so they may be more heavily reliant on admission and membership fees.