Wendy and Richard Pini, the duo behind the popular ElfQuest comic are donating $500,000 to Columbia University to help support the school library’s collection of comics, graphic novels, and prose.
The money will help digitize, for preservation, and more. It continues the Pini’s donations that began with ElfQuest material.
At San Diego Comic-Con 2012, Karen Green, the curator for comics and cartoons within Columbia’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library, approached the Pinis about helping preserve their creation. That turned into 37 linear feet of boxes of ElfQuest related material being donated. That included over 2,000 of Wendy’s hand-draw, hand-painted storyboards from 1978 to 1990.
But it goes beyond ElfQest, it also includes Pini’s adaptation of Michael Moorcock’s Stormbringer, scripts and novelization of ElfQuest: Journey to Sorrow’s End, her adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s Masque of the Red Death, and even materials related to Wendy’s infamous 1976 Red Sonja cosplay costume. There’s also artwork, scripts, notes, production papers, and fan mail and fan art.
The donation will help preserve numerous projects from multiple creators, not just ElfQuest and the Pinis.
Discover more from Graphic Policy
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
Source: Graphic Policy
