Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library comics collection
Overview
Comics featuring counter-culture and alternative lifestyle subjects consisting of American Underground comics, underground comics from other countries, alternative comics, superhero comics (many with drug-related storylines), and other comics.
Dates
- Creation: 1942-2003
Language of Materials
English
Extent
7.65 linear feet (9 boxes)Contains floppy comics including American Underground comics, superhero and adventure comics, many with drug-related stories, alternative, and other comics and comics from Europe, Canada, and other countries, some underground (Series I and II). Creators of the underground comics include R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Gilbert Shelton, Joyce Farmer, and others, and underground and other comics publishers such as Rip Off Press, Kitchen Sink Press, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and others. Many comics have counter-culture and alternative lifestyle themes. Further materials include ephemera related to the creation, publication, and promotion of comics, both mainstream and underground (Series III). Additionally, Series IV contains a variety of similarly themed graphic materials; these items are neither comics nor graphic novels, but other printed, graphic materials. Many are underground and have themes related to counterculture, drugs, or sex, and date from the latter half of the twentieth century.
Arrangement
Arranged into the following series: I. American Underground comics; II. Mainstream comics; III. Comics ephemera; and IV. Other graphic materials.
Physical Location
Harvard Depository
Provenance:
Much of the collection is from the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
2015M-85. Deposited by Julio Mario Santo Domingo III; received: 2012 April.
Forms part of the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection.
Processing Information
Processed by: Susan Wyssen, 2018, and Betts Coup, 2019.
- Title
- Santo Domingo, Julio Mario, 1957-2009, collector. Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library comics collection, 1942-2003 (MS Am 3107): Guide.
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou02784
Repository Details
Part of the Houghton Library Repository
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