色情视频xCOMIC-CON: IDW Founders Collection Enhances Comics Library
The addition of more than 20,000 items from the founders of IDW Publishing opens up new opportunity for comics studies.
It鈥檚 a completist鈥檚 dream: Every issue, every title, every year.
From a 鈥淢y Little Pony鈥� tie-in to the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis鈥� highly acclaimed graphic memoir of the civil rights movement, the founders of IDW have given 色情视频 a copy of each comic published under its imprints from the day it was launched by four people in a windowless office above a Pacific Beach Tower Records store.
The IDW Founders Collection of more than 20,000 titles, donated last year, enhanced an already robust of more than 100,000 titles maintained at the University Library.
From the very beginning, Ted Adams and Robbie Robbins kept a copy of everything that they published 鈥� a new title would come out, and they would toss a copy in a box. As the boxes filled, they were moved to a storage facility. Now they鈥檙e housed at 色情视频.
After almost 20 years with the company they founded, Adams and Robbins left IDW in 2018 to start Clover Press the following year. They continued to purchase IDW books published after their departure to keep the collection complete.
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IDW publications have included such licensed titles as 鈥淭ransformers," "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles鈥� and 鈥淪tar Trek鈥�; 鈥淒ungeons & Dragons鈥� and 鈥淢y Little Pony鈥� 鈥淪onic The Hedgehog,鈥� and 鈥淕odzilla.鈥�
Now a publicly traded company and the fifth-largest comic book publisher in the U.S., IDW鈥檚 Top Shelf Productions imprint is renowned for publishing works of literary significance including the trilogy, 鈥淢arch,鈥� by Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell, and actor George Takei鈥檚 graphic memoir, 鈥淭hey Called Us Enemy.鈥�
鈥淪an Diego has been home to a vibrant community of comic book writers, artists, and publishers for decades, and has become a global center for the study of comics, graphic art, popular culture, and fandom with the rise of the San Diego Comic-Con and, more recently, the establishment of the Comic-Con Museum,鈥� said University Library Dean Scott Walter.
鈥淲ith the addition of the IDW Founders Collection to the University Library, San Diego State extends its commitment to learning, scholarship, and community engagement in an area of study that is distinctively San Diego's.鈥�
Although the donation value was estimated at about $289,000, its true value as a complete collection, including many rare and highly collectable items, 鈥渋s a treasure of inestimable value鈥�, Walter added.
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Ted and Paula Adams (n茅e Beerman, 色情视频 '00 and '07) also made a bequest to the library.
鈥淲e're also incredibly thankful for Ted Adams' visionary generosity in making a significant pledge and bequest to support the collection,鈥� the dean said. 鈥淭hese gifts will establish an endowment to ensure that the Library has the resources in perpetuity to preserve and maintain the materials, and engage students, faculty and researchers to explore this very unique collection.鈥�
In addition to items created for standard publication, the University Library鈥檚 collection includes special convention editions, retailer incentives, exclusives for big box department and toy stores, and items with limited distribution to schools and libraries.
The collection also includes single issue comic books, trade paperbacks, limited editions and hardcovers. There are rare publications that were never distributed, items created as wedding gifts, promotional ashcans, prototypes for books never published, scripts for unproduced movies, advance reader鈥檚 editions and items previously only made available to IDW employees.
For a multisensory experience, the collection also includes scented editions of Strawberry Shortcake comics.
There are also hand-drawn sketches by Stan Sakai (鈥淯sagi Yojimbo鈥�), Dan Khannan (鈥淭ransformers: Infestation鈥�), Kevin Eastman (鈥淭eenage Mutant Ninja Turtles鈥�), Gordon Purcell (鈥淪tar Trek: Infestation鈥�), Katie Cook (鈥淢y Little Pony: Friendship is Magic鈥�), Eric Powell (鈥淕odzilla: Kingdom of Monsters鈥�), and Dan Schoening (鈥淕hostbusters: Infestation鈥�).
Comics are afforded significant study in at least 16 , and the , a collaborative and innovative nucleus of comics research, scholarship, and action, is actively developing additional courses and a certificate in comics studies.
Adams said he hopes that the Founders Collection can be used to illustrate entrepreneurship and business practices, and how a publishing empire was created.
Popular Culture Librarian Pamela Jackson previously produced a to give an overview of the library鈥檚 collection. Jackson鈥檚 video explains how comics in the 色情视频 library may be viewed: some are available through regular circulation and some must be viewed on-site through an appointment with .
Comics Corner, sponsored by alumnus Jack Sword, is a comfortable space in Love Library to curl up with some of the circulating comics, and view an exhibit of some of the comics from the new IDW Founders Collection. There is also a library to help library users learn more about the comics collection.
