As part of Penn’s year-long celebration of comics, animation and graphic novels (it started in March — where have you been?), the Kamin Gallery on the first floor of Van Pelt Library is hosting an exhibit called Life in Boxes: Comic Art & Artifacts. This show features everything from one-panel political cartoons to superhero favorites to excerpts from award-winning graphic novels, all taken from Penn’s newly acquired collection of over 5,000 books and 20,000 comic books. Whether you are a sucker for superheroes, dressed up as Batman and Robin with your man-companion last weekend or you’re so cool that the only sequential art you’ll admit to enjoying is black and white auto-bio fare like Maus, you can’t afford to miss this exhibit. The gallery is open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is free with your PennCard. So instead of making your study break a full-volume conversation in Rosengarten with that kid from last night who looked much better across the beer pong table, go upstairs and check it out.

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