Karen Green considers the difference between analyzing comics in terms of their intended audience, and analyzing comics in terms of how they can be used in the academy.

Karen Green looks at Blues-inspired works by Robert Crumb and Rob Vollmar.

Karen Green considers the history of sequential art during the medieval period.

Karen Green investigates Bryan Talbot's Alice in Sunderland

Karen Green looks at Scottsboro Alabama: a story in linoleum cuts, a 1935 book by Tony Perez and Lin Shi Khan.

Karen Green profiles a graphic novel produced by Columbia student Rachel Lindsay as part of her senior thesis and contemplates the Zeitgeist.

Karen Green contemplates allegory and curriculum-building, and takes a look at Mark Millar and Peter Gross' Chosen.

Karen Green contemplates the attribution of authorship in sequential art narratives and the recent nomination of writer Mariko Tamaki for a Governor General's Literary Award as writer of the graphic novel Skim.

Karen Green recaps the Graphic Novels and Academic Acceptance panel from New York Comic Con 2009.

Karen Green takes a look at some interesting ways graphic works are being used as part of the educational process. And for those attending NYCC, she puts in a plug for "Graphic Novels and Academic Acceptance" - tonight, 7pm!

Karen Green debates the delicate problem of what to do with donations that don't quite fit the collection.

Karen Green takes a look at Strip AIDS USA, a 1988 book looking at the crisis through the eyes of cartoonists, edited by Trina Roberts, Robert Triptow and Bill Sienkiewicz.

Karen Green reports on her experience delivering a presentation on graphic novels in academic libraries to members of the Mississippi Library Association.

Karen Green examines Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder's Goodman Beaver.

Karen Green takes a look at Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead and decides that zombies may have a place in the Academy.

This month in "Comic Adventures in Academia," Karen Green profiles a recent biography of cartoonist Jackie Ormes.

Karen Green looks at an experimental course in graphic novel-writing at Stanford, and its first product, Shake Girl, in this month's edition of "Comic Adventures in Academia."

This month in "Comic Adventures in Academia", Karen Green takes a look at Rick Veitch and Gary Erskine's Army@Love and its place in the body of literature satirizing war.

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.