It's only the 8th day of January and my second day back to work after a two week holiday break and I'm already gotten three donations of comics so far.  Granted they're not huge, but still.  Donations add up quickly ( Read more... )

I was asked to serve on a thesis committee this spring for an English student. This is the second committee in as many years.

I'm super stoked! Not only is it about comic books (Crisis on Infinite Earths and its impact on comic book structure and storytelling), but it being defended by a female and it is for the English Dept ( Read more... )

I sit on my first thesis committee this morning in the Department of History ( Read more... )

Just sharing a bit of my job with the old flist!

These are these awesome paper origami cutout folder things from CubeECraft the girls at work made for my birthday. G, C, and L made all of these in one night. I hope they know how much I *LOVE* them!

*click the pictures to make them bigger*


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It warms my heart to see girls coming in to read comics, and not just manga. *squee ( Read more... )

*points to icon*

I'm buried under a huge pile of Avenger comics.  I'm sorting through a largish donation.  I thought I'd dup out a lot of comics, but boy was I wrong.

Doing a snow dance in my seat because I want it to snow desperately tonight so I can stay in my warm bed for a while in the morning.

I have just finished process the first part of a three part donation from Alaska consisting of 2 tons of comics, or approximately 30,000 single issues ( Read more... )

In about 3 hours I will be in the same room as the godfather of underground comix, R. Crumb.  I'm super stoked.  This has only been a year in the making and it seemed like it'd never get here and now it's tonight!  It's going to be interesting.  He's an equal opportunity offender for sure.  Francoise Mouly (Art Spiegelman's wife and art editor of ( Read more... )

I took my new camera to work today.  I let my student loose with it because she wanted to play with it, then I took a few to supplement what she'd done.

I know I'm always talking about how I'm drowning in work.  Well, here is the photographic evidence.  Behind the cut you are going to see lots and lots of comic books, Gerard Way's signature, a ( Read more... )

*sees light at the end of the tunnel, maybe*

*prays it's not a freight train*