[SFCC] Comics Get Scholarly Treatment at Columbia

[Michele R Combs]

"For decades, "X-Men" author Chris Claremont kept handwritten notes about characters such as Wolverine and Magneto in dozens of boxes in the closet and basement of his Brooklyn apartment - as well as his mother-in-law's house.  Perhaps not many outside of the comics fanboy community would consider this ephemera worthy of preservation, since even Mr. Claremont's wife wanted to "get the crap out of the house," he said. But Columbia University's libraries deemed the journals, fan mail and correspondence important enough to be part of its archives..."

Read the rest here:

http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2012/09/17/graphic-novels-comics-get-scholarly-treatment-at-columbia/

Michele

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Michele Combs
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Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University
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