in need of catalogues and access - hidden gems for researchers : finding comics archives and their content

By chance, one gets into contact with libraries or archives that do have comics collections. Not always catalogued, but at least some often referenced comics or corpora that would allow for their contextualisation turn up. This is partly due to the fact that private collections are aquired by public libraries and archives, and slowly become catalogued. This way, we can find out where specific comics are at least, how we get to the archoives or libraries where these comics are is the next challenge. Because even comics that made it into well-connected libraries are usually not available via inter-library loan. Two examples are discussed: comics from Africa at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien, the Namibia Resource Centre, Southern Africa Library in Basel, Switzerland: https://www.baslerafrika.ch/ The library of the Carl-von-Ossietzky-University Oldenburg, Germany, holds in their archives a collection of around 5000 historical British comics: https://www.wonderfullyvulgar.de