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Codex Seriphinianus: The Strangest book in the World?
The Codex Seriphinianus has been called the strangest book in the world. It is by Luigi Serafini, and was originally published in 1981 by Franco Maria Ricci, who has dedicated himself to publishing...
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Alphabet books for the New Year
We love Alphabet books! They come in such a vast array of subject matters and formats. The Alphabet book got its start teaching children their ABCs while providing cute and memorable examples of words...
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Tadanori Yokoo
Recently, the Jen Library Special Collections department had the opportunity to acquire a small collection of books by Tadanori Yokoo. If you are not familiar with his work, Yokoo is a gifted Japanese...
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Jen Library Open House! April 11, from 3-7 PM
From A Troll in Central Park, background, gouache on board, Sequence 120, Scene 040, excerpt, (courtesy of the Don Bluth Collection of Animation). Its time for the Jen Library’s Spring Open House. This...
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T. S. Sullivant, Cartoonist from Life
We have been working on a new digital project in Special Collections on the old periodical, Life, which was published between 1883 and 1936. It is not like the Life you may remember that was mostly...
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Images From Life Now Live!
Life Magazine's Cherub mascot. Our newest digital project, Images From Life, brings some of the classic cartoons, covers, and ads from the first Life magazine out from the archives. Life magazine was...
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Charles Dana Gibson, Creator of the Gibson Girl and Artist from Life
Charles Dana Gibson was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts to a politically active family in 1867. His father was a Civil War Lieutenant and an amateur artist. During a childhood illness, Gibson’s father...
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