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About this journal

I've decided to use these journal entries to spend some time remembering the good 'ole days of collecting comics in the 80's, owning a comic shop in the 90s and coming back to them in the 2010s. I still collect comics of all genres, but the 90s - for me - was a great time to collect before the internet came along at full speed and destroyed everything fun. But! This is not about the negative, this is about the early days for me and my little tribute to them.

If you'd like to see some commercials for my comic shop, I posted two of them on you tube:

 

And here's me at the counter:

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Entries in this journal

Life as a Collector in the 90s

In 1993, I Wanted To Be The Next Jim Lee

Sorting through the boxes of yesteryear, like we all do, I came across my college-era portfolio of work. Looking through the commercial-style art, including a mock up and color call-out for a Comtrex medicine box (how exciting!) I happened across all my comic-book drawings that I made when I wasn't busy doing homework or working. 1992 was the beginning of an interesting time in my life. I graduated high school in 1991 and got a full-time job. I also managed to spend a little on comic books
Comic Books and Art in the 2000s

Everette Hartsoe was a Genius or: How To Be a Fanboy in 6 Easy Steps

The comic book Razor was the brainchild of Everette Hartsoe and his vision of the independent “Bad Girl” era. Razor was first published under Fathom Press in 1991, but then under Hartsoe's own London Night Studio afterwards, and the dark, Crow-inspired styling seemed to have taken off. (Razor's chronology is quite complicated, as some awesome soul organized it into an excellent read here) By the time 1994 had rolled around, I was just being introduced to these indy titles like Razor, Lady Death,
Life as a Collector in the 90s

A Tale of Strong, Yet Yielding Hands, or: How Mile High Gave Me Free Comics

Circa 1993 I lived in Denver in the 80's, moved back to Montana for high school and then went back to Denver in the early 90's for college. I'd collected comics as a kid - mostly Daredevil, MoKF, Moon Knight X-Men and GI Joe in my early teens, getting into the independent stuff after that. By the time I was 20 in 1993 and living in Great Falls, Montana - I was the typical collector: way more books I wanted than what my income allowed, especially at the $2.95 cover price. I mean, I think I w
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