I really wanted to do my research paper purely on comics, but since there aren't any archival collections of comics (save probably for Marvel and DC's corporate archives, which is totally where I want to work -- Marvel, not DC), I was reduced to doing "Print Ephemera; What the Hell is It, How the Hell Do You Arrange and Describe It, and Why Should We Care?"

(Answers: everyone seems to define it differently, it depends, and because it's cool cultural historians need it)