SAN DIEGO - Two San Diego State University librarians are asking for your help with their comic book collection.
Pamela Jackson and Anna Culbertson are custodians for more than 20,000 comics that were donated to SDSU, mostly since 2013.
The two have spent hours cataloging about 5,000 of them but they have a long way to go. The oldest dates back to the 1930s.
“We have day jobs,” joked Culbertson. “It’s really easy. It’s just tedious.”
Both women said they weren’t comic book fans before this collection landed on their laps. Now they have been converted.
“I get excited,” said Jackson. “I’m like, ‘We get to play with comics.’”
The collection was donated to SDSU by Doug Highsmith, Michael Watson, Jack Sword, Donna Barr, and Richard Alf, who was one of the founders of San Diego Comic Con in 1970.
“It’s pretty cool,” said Jackson.
UC Riverside also donated thousands of comics from its collection.
The collection is so vast, Jackson is taking a sabbatical to focus solely on getting the comics ready for the classroom.
“[We’re] looking at different themes that might be used by our students in our classes and doing some outreach with the faculty and the students to make it available to them,” she said.
They’re trying to raise funds to finish cataloging the collection and to create a special reading room in the library.
“It would all be organized kind of like a comic book store that doesn’t leave the library,” said Jackson.
“I think it’s just finding the time to do it is what we’re struggling with,” said Culbertson.
If you would like to help with the cataloging of the comic books, click here.
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