The Clyde Fitch Report Spotlights Columbia U Librarian Karen Green

 Click here to read an interview with the influential librarian who has had much success integrating comics collections into the stacks at that most-excellent of Ivy League institutions!

Nich Sousanis' Comics Dissertation Gets Love from The Chronicle of Higher Education

Great to see this high-profile resource spotlighting what is apparently going to be a major work on learning and comics, crafted in the comics form. Go, Nick!

"Comic New York" Symposium Scheduled at Columbia University THIS WEEKEND!

Karen Green is kicking ass and taking names up there in the big NYC. I loves me some Chris Claremont too. So glad to know his papers are now safely archived.

Nick Sousanis, Teachers College Doc Student, Interviewed on his Comics Dissertation

Sousanis's dissertation is in the comics form!

Chris Claremont Donates Files to Columbia University Library

From the Publisher's Weekly story:

"Renowned comics writer and novelist Chris Claremont, best known for his many years writing Marvel’s X-Men and Uncanny X-Men series, has reached an agreement to donate his archives to Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library. During his 17 years writing for the series, Claremont is credited with both developing strong female characters as well as introducing complex literary themes into superhero narratives while turning the X-Men into one of Marvel’s most popular series.

Karen Green, Columbia University's Ancient/Medieval Studies Librarian and Graphic Novel Librarian, who has been instrumental in building a graphic novel collection at Columbia University, said the acquisition of Claremont’s archive will form the basis for establishing a research center for New York City-based cartoonists and comics writers. “We hope this is the first of more comics papers to come to the University,” Green said, “we want it to be a magnet for these kinds of archives in New York City, where the comics medium was born.”

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Columbia, Harvard Show Love for Graphic Novels

On April 14, 2011, Columbia University will host "An Evening With Neil Gaiman" that will also feature Paul Levitz, who is a lecturer at the Ivy. Details here.

Sixteen days later, Harvard will host a series of speakers at the "Comics and Muslim Identity" event, sponsored by the institution's Center for Middle Eastern Studies.