ZAPP 11/11/09

Nora and I met today to discuss my progress both at ZAPP and Vera. Admittedly, my notes from this conversation are not as good as I would have liked them to be. I did however manage to capture the following. She asked about how research for Vera could overlap with ZAPP. My trial run with Zotero is a great example of this overlap. You can read all about it in my blog entry: Vera Research Progress Part 1. Then when I told her about my research into the binder option, she told me that I ought to consider poster sizes and what I hadn't thought about, the weight of a single binder at full capacity. She even suggested that I find other places that organize posters and ask these places how they do it.

After 1pm, I got started with cataloging and completed three zines. My first was a collection of mini comics called Riffs, created by Bruce Chrislip in 1981 featuring the character "Dick Dogface" among many others. Given the comic's age, I decided that it should be included in the rare zines cabinet. Apparently, this was the first mini to occupy the rare cabinet so I had to create a box for it and struggled to rearrange the space to make room for it.

I then cataloged a zine called "Reich," which is a comic biography of Wilhelm Reich, capturing his days in medical school and studies of sexology after World War I. I thought the drawing style for this one was pretty interesting. It sort of reminded me a bit of cubism. I also liked some of the dramatic shadows.

Finally, I quickly wrapped up my cataloging duties with a zine called the Educomics Catalog, which was a collection of comics by the publisher of the catalog in addition to some of his favorite comics. I had never encountered a catalog zine before and so I was uncertain how to categorize it. I thought "anthology" would be the closest match and in fact Heather later confirmed my choice.

Summary:

12:00 PM - Meeting with Nora

*Research Progress

- possible Vera - ZAPP overlap? - Zotero, etc.

- Consider the weight of an oversized binder filled with posters

- find out what other organizations store posters and how they preserve them.

1:25 PM - In the Archives

* Cataloging

- Riffs, a vintage mini comic collection from 1981 created by Bruce Chrislip

- Reich, a comic biography of Wilhelm Reich created by Elijah Brubaker

- Educomics Catalog, a catalog of the publisher's comics and some of his favorites