Digital Museum - Marvel In Australia Part 1
A few weeks ago I went on a road trip to Canberra and
Melbourne to visit both the National Archives and also the National Library,
with the goal to sit down and study the John Ryan collection in Canberra, a
number of comic books and correspondence in the Archives and the Jack Elliott
collection at Monash University. Thanks
to the kindness of then people working in those institutions I was able to gain
a lot more information than I previously had – the Ryan collection is stunning
in scope and diversity alone. Seeing the
collections and the contents of the archives got me to thinking about how
precious some collectors and archivists get over what they possess and how
difficult, if not impossible, it is to gain any form of meaningful information
from those collections held in private hands.
Yet those who have the information and refuse to share it are quick to
leap on the mistakes of others. To that
end I’ve decided to throw my own collection open for research purposes, but
it’ll be…