Comics Archive @ Columbia

My childhood was mostly me burying myself with Archie comics. I constantly read treasuries of comic strips like pearls before swine, baby blues, peanuts, garfield and more. I certainly looked forward to the comic book archive. As a history geek I appreciated the historical aspect of the archives. It was disappointing that they did not have many pieces relating to mainstream comics. However, it was nice to examine the bigger picture of comics throughout the 20th century. I felt the archive did make the best of the limited resources it had. The documents were not easy to obtain and the fact that they were able to obtain that many is remarkable. One improvement they could make is they way they present the archive in a simpler way. The guide made too many assumptions about the knowledge we had about comics. If they gave more thought to that then we could have gained more from the exhibit.