Lost in collecting- Om's Journal by oldmilwaukee6er
This journal will attempt to wrangle my irrational pursuit of an Amazing Spider-Man #1 1963 in a comic book speculator bubble.
I am entering the fourth phase of my comic collecting. My first phase was 1989-1993. I collected mainly pre-Unity Valiants and Image comics, along with some Uncanny X-Men and Wolverine. My favorite thing was to hop into the car and hit Chicago-land book and comic stores, and I found a lot of great Valiant books that way. I habitually collected Spawn throughout my fo
Spec’ing on the future of comics
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In thinking and talking through the post about my Grandmother, and debating some of the futurist points with the lady, we inevitably turned the conversation toward the future of comics. I enjoyed this article by Baker (2014) where he notes that “now more than ever is an excellent time to be a comics reader” and that “the medium has never been so widely accepted as a legitimate form of literature and entertainment by the mainstream” (para. 1)