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Debating whether I can reference superdickery.com in a paper on the uses and treatment of ephemera. I bet comics count as ephemera -- if brochures, flyers, musical programs, restaurant menues, political buttons, and chapbooks count, then so do comics.
Actually, I'm not so sure chapbooks should count. They may very very cheap books, but they're still books, and not intended for a short-time, single purpose use. Technically, neither are comics, but I bet you could make a case for old, 1930s comics. Sold from newsstands, printed on cheap paper, generally considered disposable... ephemera!
(Buttons definately = no. They are physical artifacts, as are stamped pennies, wooden signs, and anything else that's not paper-based or photographic).
There are times when I thank God I did all that history and English -- because I can pull Lyon's Sex Among the Rabble and Alice Fah's The Imagined Civil War off my book shelf to pad this paper out with examples of the usefulness of print ephemera to historians.
Actually, I'm not so sure chapbooks should count. They may very very cheap books, but they're still books, and not intended for a short-time, single purpose use. Technically, neither are comics, but I bet you could make a case for old, 1930s comics. Sold from newsstands, printed on cheap paper, generally considered disposable... ephemera!
(Buttons definately = no. They are physical artifacts, as are stamped pennies, wooden signs, and anything else that's not paper-based or photographic).
There are times when I thank God I did all that history and English -- because I can pull Lyon's Sex Among the Rabble and Alice Fah's The Imagined Civil War off my book shelf to pad this paper out with examples of the usefulness of print ephemera to historians.
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