The reading room contains a selection of over 3,000 albums you will also find albums translated into over 36 languages. The study library allows visitors access to all the collections of albums, magazines and reference works conserved at BCSC. The Belgian Comic Strip Center has a study library housing what is probably the biggest collection of comic strips in the world. The total number of items in the Collection is estimated at 60,000. Imprints are very largely American, with some British satirical graphic magazines. The Collection is particularly noteworthy for its holdings of comics by the small and independent publishers of the 1970s and 1980s. The majority of the collection consists of comic books published since that time, up to 1995 there are also significant sections of magazine-format comics, graphic novels, fan and collector's journals, reissues of classic 'golden age' comics and newspaper strips, translations of Japanese 'manga' and 'anime' comics and European comic art, and compilations of the work of comic artists, as well as advertising ephemera, role-playing game materials, and adult erotica. Ciaraldi, beginning in the early 1970s, and came to the Library beginning in 1996.

The collection was amassed by the donor, Michael J. All title and issues can be found in the library catalog, and there is a link under special collections for their personalized libguide and a list of 10,000 records under the subject heading. The time period ranges from the 1930's to the present. Each collection includes commercially produced comics, magazine-style comics and independent/underground comics. The comic book collection, 50,000+ strong and still growing, is divided into two collections - the general and the Bravard.

Bowling Green State University - Popular Culture Library

Foriegn comic collector