Comics and Critical Librarianship: Reframing the Narrative in Academic Libraries

Though it is still not uncommon to hear the question "Comics? In libraries?!", comics collections have existed in academic institutions for over fifty years. Libraries have taken a variety of approaches to address differing philosophies and needs for their collections, but discourse has typically focused on the practical concerns of management and organization, considering the best ways to collect, catalog, shelve, and share comic books and trades, graphic novels, and more.

As a growing body...