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"Graphic novel" is a term gaining acceptance that is used to describe bound narratives that tell a story through sequential art with or without text. These may have been conceived originally as novel-length works or be compilations of previously serialized stories.
Read the CUL Collection Development Policy.
Tips on finding graphic novels in CLIO.
Tips on finding sources for scholarly analysis of graphic novels, writers, and artists.
- Cartoon Research Library, Ohio State University -- a comprehensive research collection of all aspects of American cartoon art, including comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, editorial cartoons, sports cartoons, and magazine cartoons.
- Comic Art Collection, Michigan State University -- over 200,000 items, primarily comic books, but also over 1000 newspaper comics and extensive secondary materials.
- San Francisco Academy of Art, Ohio State University -- Bill Blackbeard's collection of early American newspaper comics, as well as dime novels, penny dreadfuls, sci-fi fanzines, and a wide variety of popular narratives.
- Edwin and Terry Murphy Comic Book Collection, Duke University -- a comprehensive collection of Marvel and DC comics from the 1930s onward, featuring DC and Marvel titles as well as assorted small publishers and underground comics.
- Michael E. Uslan Collection, Indiana University -- Uslan, producer of "Batman" films and Indiana University professor, donated his collection to the university.
- Michael J. Ciaraldi Collection, Brown University -- collection of comics, graphic novels, and other materials relating to comic art in popular culture
- Library of Congress, Serial and Government Publications, Popular Culture Collection -- a brief history of the genre, and a guide to using the collection
- NASAE (National Association of Comics Art Educators) -- advice for including comics in the curriculum
- Newsarama -- source for daily comics news, reviews, previews, and commentary
- Library Journal's Graphic Novels reviews--brief but thorough reviews, with target audience info
- The Comics Reporter -- comics news from a long-time industry insider
- Comic Book Resources -- news, press releases, forums, and more
- ComicVine -- a comics database and social media venue for discussing comics, posting reviews, and more
- Thought Balloonists -- reviews and discussion
- Comics 101 -- Scott Tipton's encyclopedic comics blog
- The Beat--comics commentary from Publishers Weekly
- Comics for All--comics commentary from Marvel Comics
- Flog--the Fantagraphics Books blog
- D+Q Blog -- the Drawn & Quarterly blog
- Journalista--the blog from The Comics Journal
- Comixology--a guide to what's out, week by week
- The Savage Critic -- more reviews and commentary
- Comics Comics -- blog written by Dan Nadel, among others
- Comics Should Be Good -- the blog from Comic Book Resources
- Occasional Superheroine -- blog by Valerie D'Orazio: cartoonist, editor, president of Friends of Lulu
- Sequential Tart -- comics news and reviews from a female perspective
- BeaucoupKevin -- blog written by a comics writer
Contact a librarian: for more info on CUL’s graphic novel collection, or to make suggestions for the collection or for this page, email Karen Green at klg19@columbia.edu.
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