{"id":10161,"date":"2017-01-22T20:11:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T00:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=10161"},"modified":"2017-11-27T08:29:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T12:29:01","slug":"episode-202-karen-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-202-karen-green","title":{"rendered":"Episode 202 – Karen Green"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 202: Karen Green<\/a><\/p>\n

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“My plan is to make this a research destination for comics studies, especially as they relate to comics in New York City.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Karen Green<\/a>, Curator of the Comics and Cartoons collection at Columbia University<\/a>, joins the show to talk about her secret origin! How did she go from bartender to medieval scholar to comics librarian? We get into the evolution of the library and comics scholarship, her proudest acquisitions, her love of NYC and being a bartender there in the ’80s, reading Playboy<\/em> for the cartoons, the experience of having a portrait done by Drew Friedman, her Venn diagram with Mimi Pond, and the one cartoonist she’s still speechless around. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy Drew Friedman’s More Heroes Of The Comics: Portraits Of The Legends Of Comic Books<\/a>\"\"; Karen wrote the intro!<\/p>\n

“Things that were throwaway materials for the medieval or early modern period are now priceless artifacts in museums and libraries around the world. Who’s to say that the things we see as disposable culture today are not going to be given the same valence?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n