News from the John W. Kluge Center: Watch Now: Peculiar Pop and Comic Books at the Library of Congress
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Our event looking at the Library’s collection of genre comics is now available. Watch here.
In it, Jesse J. Holland and Megan Halsband discuss the Library of Congress comics collection, as well as the place of comics in American culture.
Halsband, a Librarian in the Serial & Government Publications Division, completed a 2021 staff fellowship looking at the non-superhero genre collections at the Library of Congress, including western, romance, education and funny animal comics. Holland, in addition to his work in Black history and journalism, is the author of “Black Panther: Who Is The Black Panther?” the first novel featuring the comic book character Black Panther and a comics enthusiast.
