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Karen Green (she/her)
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Curator for Comics and Cartoons, Columbia University. New Yorker. Movie buff. Architecture fan. Medievalist. My life won an Eisner Award. I contain multitudes.
https://guides.library.columbia.edu/graphic-novels
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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
May 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Truth
all play and no work 🦈
May 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM
What’s up, doc?

Seen hanging out on 231st St, half a block from the Henry Hudson Parkway.
May 20, 2025 at 8:24 AM
His home borough
May 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life.

Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever.

Our problem isn't a lack of resources.

Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
May 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
@nsousanis.bsky.social and I made it into the timeline of 50 years of Columbia alumni magazine.

If you want to see the other 49 years, click here magazine.columbia.edu/article/50-y...
May 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
With thanks to J.J Sedelmaier and Howard Beckerman’s daughter Sheri, these beauties are now gracing our collection.

Descriptions in the ALT text.
May 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM
This is a major milestone.

It’s even bigger than this post indicates. Art Spiegelman won a special Pulitzer. Tessa Hulls won a Pulitzer for a category that branched off in 2023 from one established in 1917.
It is with immense pride that we acknowledge FEEDING GHOSTS as the first graphic novel to receive this distinction since Art Spiegelman’s MAUS was recognized in 1992. This historic achievement is a testament to the remarkable work of Tessa Hulls, to whom we extend our sincerest congratulations.
May 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Wonderful, fabulous @cathkastner.bsky.social drew this portrait of me after my visit with her in Paris. It is accurate to every detail, from Sacre-Coeur in the background to my fuschia coat to the pockets on my suitcase to my omnipresent chocolat chaud.
May 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
So…more fun at Columbia.

I left the library at about 3:30 to go have tea with a donor. There was a crowd outside the entrance, but they were milling about. No chanting, no placards.
May 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Last night at @92ndstreety.bsky.social : Naomi Fry talks with Robert Crumb and Dan Nadel, on the occasion of the release of Dan’s Crumb biography.

Also, obviously, the most important content in the book (see alt-text for why)!
April 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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MMR vaccine doesn’t just prevent measles, mumps, and rubella. It also prevents RFK Jr. from showing up at your child’s funeral to exploit your grief at your most vulnerable moment.
April 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Look at this absolute BEAUTY of a cartoon: Sisters of Liberty!, by Burris Jenkins, 1943. From a time when a majority of Americans pulled together for a common goal.

Hard to believe, eh?
April 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Un-American.
Indiana Rep Spartz (R): “You violated the law, you are not entitled to due process.”

Dangerously ignorant. 🇺🇸
March 30, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Interesting. I would have expected the price to be higher.

The one on the left might belong in a different bin, though.
March 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Jeez, let’s get back to comics, eh? I’m trying to avoid current events as much as possible to stave off insanity (witness my last post, wherein I succumbed).

Herewith, for those of you on FB, a minuscule portion of the photos we got in a recent donation…

www.facebook.com/126490/posts...?
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Also in the Robinson addition is a massive stack of photos, of cartoonists and comics-related folk. Some have a name and no date, some have a date and no name, some have bupkis. But here's a...
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March 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Jeezus Chriminy-rist, “Democracy First”: are you his pawns?!?
March 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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If you are pissed off about the news that Columbia University is capitulating to Trump, please consider donating to the Spectator, the fully independent newspaper that has broken so much of the news about Columbia's role in Gaza protests and more.

www.specpublishing.com/donate
March 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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The Columbia Spectator is published by a 501(c)3 that is financially independent from Columbia University. Outside donations are the reason they are able to keep up the amazing journalism they do, holding Columbia University accountable.
March 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.
March 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Gotta admit—this is not a shining moment in the history of NY Democrats.
The final tally to advance the CR is 62-38.

The Democrats who voted for cloture, giving Donald Trump everything he wants:

Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)
March 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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the fact that people are being disappeared in the name of ""preventing antisemitism"" by a christian nationalist administration is making me nauseated and horrified in ways i cant even begin to explain
March 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I saw a truly bizarre caryatid on a late 19th-c building near Columbus and 69th Street. I figured, that CAN’T be real. And what the hell—is she holding in her intestines??

I went looking for an image of the original in those 1940 WPA building photos and, sure enough, somebody did sumpin’.
March 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM