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The Eaton Collection's outstanding collection of more than 75,000 individual comic book issues has been built entirely through donations from fans. The collection includes single issue comics and series, graphic novels, bandes dessinées, manga, and other comics in languages other than English. Among the more significant contributions are the collections of Michael Brennan, Stephen Byrne, Michael Callahan, Adam Crities (UCR alumnus, 1995), Dr. Byran Kaul (UCR alumnus, 1975), anime scholar Fred Patten, and comic book writer Marv Wolfman. The collection contains many examples from the golden (1938-1950), silver (1956-1970), bronze (1970-1985), and modern (1985-present) ages of American comic book publishing, as well as interregnum in the early to mid-1950s, and provides a wealth of information on colorists, inkers, and letterers, as well as authors and illustrators.
In his new podcast Marvel/Method exclusively on the SiriusXM app, he talks to stars like DMC, Chris Gethard, Kevin Smith, and Killer Mike about their love of Marvel Comics and pairs them up with some of their favorite Marvel writers and artists. Their conversations go deep about characters and storylines proving that as he told me in the interview the true value in the comic books are the stories they tell.
MM: I hung around guys that loved comic books and we had a teacher that let us read books and we had a comic book club because she got tired of us bringing the books to school. I became a real collector at about 10 years old when I learned to bag and board, and I've been collecting ever since. I've accumulated over 20,000 books and most of them are stored in my attic and in the garage.
I think hearing conversations about story arcs from the writers and seeing the meat and potatoes that went into the stew will make people want to read more books. If I can make a seven or eight-year-old pick up a book, start reading, and looking in the dictionary every time they don't understand the word, then I've done my job.
It must be a thrill for you to get to talk to these artists and writers because being a famous person like yourself, you probably can't just go to a comic book convention unless you're on a panel right?
Wolverine has been a work in progress for years now and everybody that writes Wolverine gets that there are a limited number of things you can do with a Wolverine story because it's always going to end in violence. Sometimes writers step outside the box and maybe give you two panels of Wolverine slicing somebody up, and the rest of the comic book is about his inner turmoil and his inner fight to find peace within himself. If you cannot find peace within yourself, then there can not be peace to anyone amongst you.
Chapters address challenges specific to comic book collections in academic libraries, such as finding space and funds to build a collection, making diverse and inclusive collections, leading innovative library instruction sessions with comics, and working with undergraduate and graduate students on comics research. Comic Books, Special Collections, and the Academic Library can help you develop, cultivate, grow, catalog, and make use of comic book collections.
Brian Flota is a humanities librarian at the rank of associate professor in the Libraries at James Madison University. In this position he has collaborated with Special Collections and faculty in the English Department to develop a collection of Black comic books, poetry, and prose. He co-edited the essay collection The Politics of Post-9/11 Music with Joseph P. Fisher (2011) and is the author of A Survey of Multicultural San Francisco Bay Literature, 1955-1979 (2009). He has also produced scholarship on comics and pulp magazine collections in libraries, Ishmael Reed, Richard Pryor, and the Beat Generation.
Kate Morris is head of special collections, assistant professor rank, within the digital scholarship and distinctive collections department at James Madison University. She provides leadership for the special collections team, and works to acquire and develop collections that document the history of the central Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and the history of JMU. She works with faculty to integrate primary sources into coursework and to acquire rare and unique collections, including a growing collection of comics, that support the curriculum.
The Comic Arts Collection began in the 1970s with the donation of a modest comic book collection and the papers of richmond newspaper editorial cartoonist, Fred O. Seibel (1886 - 1968). Today, it comprises more than 175,000 items, including more than 125,000 comic books, of which 60,000 are available for research. in addition to comic books, the collection includes reference titles, journals, graphic novels, fanzines, original works of comic art, and the personal papers of notable figures in the comic arts. VCU Libraries is the repository for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards and provides access to thousands of publications that received or were nominated for the award.
The collection represents many artistic styles, literary genres, time periods, and subjects. It is one of the largest research collections of its kind in the country and also serves as a source of ideas and inspiration for the creative community.
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Countless collections of comic books have surfaced over the years. Some of these collections only include a handful of comics, while others contain thousands. Every now and then, a collection is found that is so exceptional that it becomes recognized as a pedigree.
CGC currently recognizes 61 pedigree collections. If you are the current owner of an exceptional comic book collection, CGC is more than happy to discuss the potential pedigree status with you. Please feel free to call and ask to speak with a Pedigree Specialist.
The collection must be original owner.
This means that the books must have been bought off the newsstand as they came out. For example, a collector cannot buy a high-grade run of 1940s comics from various sources and expect it to be considered a pedigree. The original owner need not currently own the comics for the collection to be considered for pedigree status.
The collection must consist of a considerable number of comics.
Most pedigree collections consist of at least 1,000 books and some number over 10,000 comics. The collections that consist of fewer books, such as the Allentown and Denver collections, must include extremely rare, important, and/or key material.
The collection must be high-grade.
Comics from the Silver Age in general would have to be 9.2 and higher, and a collection of exclusive Silver Age material must have an average grade of 9.4. Golden Age comics would have to be high-grade as well. For example, the Lost Valley collection consisted of many golden age books from before 1941 that were technically mid-grade, but were almost across the board the highest graded copy for that book. Page quality must be nice as well.
ACRL announces the publication of Comic Books, Special Collections, and the Academic Library, edited by Brian Flota and Kate Morris. The book is a collection of best practices for the acquisition, preservation, storage, and cataloging of comics, particularly single-issue (or floppy) comics, within the special collections units of academic library collections.
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