Peter Poplaski’s cover for The Spirit Magazine # 30 (Kitchen Sink Press, 1981).
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Strange to think, more than twenty years after Maus became the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer, the concept of comics as academic pursuit still seems foreign. Standing in front of Columbia’s collection of bound sequential art, however, the day when comics are widely regarded as some of the finest literature and art available doesn’t seem too far off after all. When Ancient and Medieval Collections librarian Karen Green started work at the university, Columbia’s comics collection was a scant three titles. Now, thanks to her work, it’s an impressive thing to behold.
In December, Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library acquired the archive of Kitchen Sink Press, which includes over 50,000 letters with cartoonists and “200 linear feet of material including editorial and business files, original art, handwritten letters and drawings.”
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