In Search of Decent, Affordable Clip-Art I write this column with mixed emotions. On the one hand, I have some good recommendations for PC clip-art packages. On the other hand, simply by sharing this information, it loses a bit of value. Beyond that impossibility, what you look for in a clip-art package are graphics flexible enough to be put to many different uses, and drawn in a style that doesn't make you cringe.
Flexibility can go one of two ways, modifiability or ease of use.
If you have a knack for graphics yourself, you will probably want clip-art images that you can easily alter, recombine, crop, etc. Here is an excellent, very broad, well catalogued collection that I use nearly every day. Which brings us to the other criterion, acceptability. The majority of clip-art images out there strike me as, well, dorky. Weirdly overstylized cartoons of people striking everyday business poses.