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‘One-man crusade’ against CGC grading, slabbing

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jaybuck43

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Why does this guy care so much about what I do with MY comic.

 

+One Zillion

 

This is what I do not understand about this. If you don't want to buy slabs, don't buy slabs. I want to buy some slabs. AMERICA FREEDOM.

 

I have a Little Idea Brewing of why hE Really thinks thAt Like that. :baiting:

 

(is this policitcal masking?) :ohnoez:

 

Well, no one has humped the button yet...

 

;)

 

 

 

-slym

I remember a simpler time, where you didn't have to worry about getting your button humped for talking about how great a country was! :preach: And this is how you taught a kid to swim!

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awakeintheashes

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Why does this guy care so much about what I do with MY comic.

 

+One Zillion

 

This is what I do not understand about this. If you don't want to buy slabs, don't buy slabs. I want to buy some slabs. AMERICA FREEDOM.

 

 

I found it pretty obvious, once I read a few of his comic strips on his website. Without dragging this into any kind of political discussion, it's seemed somewhat clear to me that he is one of those hardline, shove his opinion down everyone's throat, tolerance of other peoples ideas/opinions is a one way street, kinda guys.

 

Looking at that kind of mentality and his comments discussed here in, it all fits together like a perfect little puzzle. He's a wingnut.

 

Why does this guy care so much about what I do with MY comic.

 

+One Zillion

 

This is what I do not understand about this. If you don't want to buy slabs, don't buy slabs. I want to buy some slabs. AMERICA FREEDOM.

 

I have a Little Idea Brewing of why hE Really thinks thAt Like that. :baiting:

 

(is this policitcal masking?) :ohnoez:

 

WHAT IS HE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

 

One of you says one way, one says another?

 

Lets label people because of their political beliefs, even though we don't have a clue what they are?

 

What a crock. The both of you. What this guy is is a tool. His political beliefs are not for discussion.

 

Actually I was describing the same thing as the good Dr. I thought the line about tolerance being a one way street was a dead give away.

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comix4fun

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Who cares. meh

 

+1000

 

 

Only the inventor of the Question Mark, if he still gets royalties upon use.

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GIJOEISAWESOME-migration

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comicbookresources.com/

 

 

Comic books are made to be read. But along the way they’ve grown to become a collectible in the minds of some, leading to an interesting bifurcation of fandom: collectors and readers.

 

My Friend Dahmer cartoonist Derf Backderf is a longtime fan who, while downsizing his collection, wandered upon the uniquely placed Certified Guaranty Company (CGC). The avowed comic fan who followed his hobby into a career was shocked at the degree to which comics collecting had subsumed the readability of comics, especially given that “true collectors” would hermetically seal their comics in CGC “slabs,” leaving them unable to be read — you know, the original intent for the comic.

 

“For someone who has devoted his life to making comics, and who takes several years to painstakingly craft each one … to be READ! … this is an abomination,” Derf wrote in a long post on his blog. “For baseball cards, fine. because you can still read everything on the card. With a comic book, 90 percent of the contents are lost forever! Most of these “collectors” wouldn’t know the difference between Wally Wood and Wally Walrus. They’re just collecting a number. It’s an affront to everything I hold dear.”

 

Derf, who has been reading comics since the mid-1970s, covers the growth of the secondhand comics market and the rise of collectability through the Overstreet Price Guide and now through CGC. Because of this severe leaning toward collectability limiting the readability of comics, the cartoonist has started what he calls a “one-man crusade against slabbing” by buying CGC books and “then free[ing] them from their plastic coffins.

 

 

I do what I want with my comic. Ain't nobody got time fo that!

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Black Lantern

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comicbookresources.com/

 

 

Comic books are made to be read. But along the way they’ve grown to become a collectible in the minds of some, leading to an interesting bifurcation of fandom: collectors and readers.

 

My Friend Dahmer cartoonist Derf Backderf is a longtime fan who, while downsizing his collection, wandered upon the uniquely placed Certified Guaranty Company (CGC). The avowed comic fan who followed his hobby into a career was shocked at the degree to which comics collecting had subsumed the readability of comics, especially given that “true collectors” would hermetically seal their comics in CGC “slabs,” leaving them unable to be read — you know, the original intent for the comic.

 

“For someone who has devoted his life to making comics, and who takes several years to painstakingly craft each one … to be READ! … this is an abomination,” Derf wrote in a long post on his blog. “For baseball cards, fine. because you can still read everything on the card. With a comic book, 90 percent of the contents are lost forever! Most of these “collectors” wouldn’t know the difference between Wally Wood and Wally Walrus. They’re just collecting a number. It’s an affront to everything I hold dear.”

 

Derf, who has been reading comics since the mid-1970s, covers the growth of the secondhand comics market and the rise of collectability through the Overstreet Price Guide and now through CGC. Because of this severe leaning toward collectability limiting the readability of comics, the cartoonist has started what he calls a “one-man crusade against slabbing” by buying CGC books and “then free[ing] them from their plastic coffins.”

 

can you forward his contact info; i've got 50 slabs i'd like to sell him to further his crusade.

 

 

Are you talking to me? I don't know this guy :P

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Jamie Coville

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If anybody wants to hear Derf speak on a panel I've recorded him a couple of times.

 

From TCAF 2013:

Writing Life (55:41, 50.9mb)

On this panel were creators that did autobiographical non-fiction Graphic Novels. They were Derf, Lucy Knisley, Ulli Lust and Raina Telgemeier. The group talked about their books. They felt there was a difference between non-fiction and memoir books and spoke about how different people remember events differently. Derf spoke about how he was able to go back and talk to his high school friends about events with Jeffery Dahmer and revealed that people usually remembered things pretty much the same way. They also talked about depicting other people they know (eg family members) and if their reaction to it changes the way they tell a story. The group talked about if they leave stuff out of their comics and if some personal stories are "not for sale." This panel was moderated by Robin Brenner.

 

From C2E2 2013:

Derf Backderk on My Friend Dahmer (54:03, 49.4mb)

Derf Backderf talked about his Graphic Novel My Friend Dahmer. He explained he was a friend and a fan of Dahmer in high school in the 1970s. He showed lots of pictures of Dahmer back then. He talked about the strange antics that Dahmer in high school that was (then) funny to him and his friends. He also talked about how the media, from the top to the bottom of the respectability scale were leaving messages on his answering machine and were parked outside his home and banging on his door at 6AM to get an interview. Backderf talked also about the history of the book and how he spent 20 years researching the book, from talking to his old high school classmates to going back to his high school and getting into Dahmer's old house. Derf answered questions from the audience. The last bit of the panel got cut off due to space on the recorder.

 

And if anybody is interested in hearing other panels I've recorded they are at my webpage

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Dr. Balls

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"It’s an affront to everything I hold dear.”
It's an affront to everything he holds dear.

 

CGC slabs assault this guy's senses, but a mass murdering, cannibalistic friend from school? ....not so much. (shrug)

 

Goes to show you just how evil CGC is. :eyeroll:

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