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
Why Hollywood controls the future of comics
OK, so in my research on the future of comic books, another theme rose to the surface; “the legitimization of comics through Hollywood” (attributed to Mark Millar, in Parker, 2015). To me, this statement means that Hollywood controls the future of comics (Parker, 2015). I suppose it is already the industry norm that comics are beholden to films (after Baker, 2014) and ‘all in the name of corporate synergy,’ as I like to say.
Corporate synergy a