This petition argues that erotic comics are an important cultural record of the way in which diverse sexualities are understood and portrayed, and sexual fantasies explored. An Erotic Comics Anglophone Archive (ErotiCAA) will preserve these works for research by scholars in many different disciplines.
One of the biggest problems facing anyone researching pornography/erotica or comics, and therefore doubly so for anyone researching erotic/pornographic comics, is finding and gaining access to primary materials. So we have decided to have a go at establishing an archive in the UK to collect and catalogue English-language porn and erotic comics.
We intend to approach a number of libraries and research institutions to host and/or fund the archive. Persuading them to support us will be a lot easier if we an show that there is a need for this archive, so to help with that we’ve started this petition.
We’ve already got this kick-ass logo designed for us by Alison Lucy Stone and meetings set up with a couple of big libraries. Help us out by signing the petition? And if you’d like to be more involved, please tweet Dr Anna Madill @UKFujoshi or Dr Jude Roberts @tangendentalism - we’d love to hear from you!
Updates
August 7, 2014
We are currently prepping our presentation materials for the library board meetings. Send an email to your local archive curator asking if they support the preservation of erotic comics. Your questions and comments continue to inform the research goals of this project.
August 7, 2014
We hit a significant threshold and now have the attention we need to move into our next round of library meetings. Send the link to your local librarian to show them that this archive has widespread support. Post the link on Facebook and tag the institutions in your area that should be hosting these collections.
10 Comments
This is an important area of study that has seriously been undervalued over the past 50 years. As the author of two books on the subject I know that there is a vast wealth of crucial material that needs curating and I support this archive completely.
Goldsmiths, University of London
This is a much-needed initiative! Without a decent archive how can we seek to understand these extremely important comics?
Finally someone is taking this seriously. Finding primary sources for my masters thesis was an absolute nightmare. This would be a massive help for researchers.
Essential work for cultural studies. So much stuff is getting lost to time that needs to be properly catalogued.
A great idea for scholars researching in this area.
University of Sussex PhD researcher
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This petition argues that erotic comics are an important cultural record of the way in which diverse sexualities are understood and portrayed, and sexual fantasies explored. An Erotic Comics Anglophone Archive (ErotiCAA) will preserve these works for research by scholars in many different disciplines.
One of the biggest problems facing anyone researching pornography/erotica or comics, and therefore doubly so for anyone researching erotic/pornographic comics, is finding and gaining access to primary materials. So we have decided to have a go at establishing an archive in the UK to collect and catalogue English-language porn and erotic comics.
We intend to approach a number of libraries and research institutions to host and/or fund the archive. Persuading them to support us will be a lot easier if we an show that there is a need for this archive, so to help with that we’ve started this petition.
We’ve already got this kick-ass logo designed for us by Alison Lucy Stone and meetings set up with a couple of big libraries. Help us out by signing the petition? And if you’d like to be more involved, please tweet Dr Anna Madill @UKFujoshi or Dr Jude Roberts @tangendentalism - we’d love to hear from you!
Updates
August 7, 2014
We are currently prepping our presentation materials for the library board meetings. Send an email to your local archive curator asking if they support the preservation of erotic comics. Your questions and comments continue to inform the research goals of this project.
August 7, 2014
We hit a significant threshold and now have the attention we need to move into our next round of library meetings. Send the link to your local librarian to show them that this archive has widespread support. Post the link on Facebook and tag the institutions in your area that should be hosting these collections.
10 Comments
This would be very useful to scholars from around the world. Erotica plays an important part of history, literature, and the comics medium. Good luck and Mahalo.
This is an important area of study that has seriously been undervalued over the past 50 years. As the author of two books on the subject I know that there is a vast wealth of crucial material that needs curating and I support this archive completely.
Goldsmiths, University of London
This is a much-needed initiative! Without a decent archive how can we seek to understand these extremely important comics?
Finally someone is taking this seriously. Finding primary sources for my masters thesis was an absolute nightmare. This would be a massive help for researchers.
Essential work for cultural studies. So much stuff is getting lost to time that needs to be properly catalogued.
A great idea for scholars researching in this area.
University of Sussex PhD researcher
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This would be very useful to scholars from around the world. Erotica plays an important part of history, literature, and the comics medium. Good luck and Mahalo.