Anthony Fury & Me

As part of the State Library of Victoria's publicity campaign for the Heroes and Villains exhibition, I was invited to be an inaugural 'video guest' for the State Library's new public access initiative, Your Treasures.

This new online programme invites members of the public to share their own 'personal treasures' with the State Library's website audience, by providing a digital image of their chosen item, along with a brief description about it, and why they regard it as a 'personal treasure'.

Where possible, these items are linked to corresponding items already held in the State Library of Victoria's inventory.

These fascinating personal accounts are then published online at the Your Treasures website. Users can search the site by keyword or subject category, to look up items which might match their own collecting passions.

As Guest Curator of the Heroes and Villains exhibition, I was asked to present a short video clip discussing one of the 'personal treasures' from my own collection of Australian comics. It was a hard choice to make, but eventually I settled on Anthony Fury, a mid-1940s sci-fi/adventure comic illustrated by Stanley Pitt.

You can view my vdeo presentation about Anthony Fury here and if you have your own 'personal treasure' you'd like to share with State Library of Victoria patrons, you can register to contribute to Your Treasures here.