Centered on San Diego State University's Comic Arts Collection, this panel explores how a comics archive can serve as a unifying framework for interdisciplinary teaching, collaborative scholarship, and innovative pedagogy. Pamela Jackson (San Diego State University) examines the librarian's role in curating collections and how the collection itself became a catalyst for curricular growth. Elizabeth Pollard (San Diego State University) and Mary Stout (San Diego State University) then offer course-based case studies that draw directly on special collections. Finally, Laurence Grove (University of Glasgow) reflects via video on developing a comics history course structured around "ten treasures" from the collection, offering a model for teaching the long history of comics through archival strengths. This discussion highlights how comics collections can anchor meaningful, research-driven teaching across disciplines.
