This month in Comic Adventures in Academia, Karen Green takes a look at several titles from DC's Minx imprint and weighs their merits against the literature she read growing up.

This week in "Comic Adventures in Academia", Karen Green discusses Nick Bertozzi's The Salon, a book with a history of controversy-- though it may at first glance seem less than controversial.

This month in "Comic Adventures in Academia," Karen Green discusses The New Yorker 25th Anniversary Album and its critical importance on her own development as a connoisseur of comics.

In "Comic Adventures in Academia" the adventures get seriously academic this month, as Karen Green travels to a pair of scholarly conferences where the hot topic of the moment is... comics!

Does Lost Girls belong in the Columbia University library? In this month's installment of Comic Adventures in Academia, Karen Green takes on the tough question of where to draw the line between erotica and pornography, and equally important, how to protect materials that may risk theft, damage, or defacement.

Our newest column, Comic Adventures in Academia debuts today! Every month Karen Green, Columbia University's Classics Librarian and Graphic Novel selector, will describe her experiences developing one of the first collections of graphic novels at an academic library. In the first installment she talks about what it took to successfully lobby for a collection that had few precedents in the Academy.