Abe Books compiled this list of various types of ephemera that people collect along with a few key thoughts about each type. Enjoy! https://www.abebooks.com/books/rarebooks/collecting-guide/what_books_collect/ephemera.shtml Continue reading Ephemera Collection Types
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Hogan’s Alley is a yearly magazine dedicated to printing articles about the cartoon arts. Content ranges from historical to current day comic strips, including articles about the cartoon artists themselves. It also covers information about comic art, comic books, cartoons, and animation. We are interviewing Tom Heintjes who is the editor and co-founder of this delightful publication. The magazine was founded in 1994 with love and the sale of his personal comic book collections to fund it. TH: I’ve been publishing Hogan’s Alley since 1994. http://www.hoganmag.com BU: Publishing is a tough job. It’s also a labor of love. You obviously feel something about it; can you … Continue reading Hogan’s Alley Magazine
One of our most basic and Primal needs as babies is to be protected. It’s not very well understood why we would seek out the very thing that leaves us open and vulnerable scared and excited at the same time. To glean some answers on this subject, we turn to Ria Pierce who claims she is not a professional on the topic but she unabashedly will bring her ‘larger-than-life’ self to this interview to help us discover what it is about horror films that make us love them, or not…So, enter if you dare. Ria has been working with Michael … Continue reading Monsters Among Us
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Matting a photograph You could be thinking one of two things: Who can’t mat a photo? I can’t mat anything, I’ll just mess it up! Here are a few tips to help make that special photo an enduring wall piece. … Continue reading Photo Collection Tip: Matting a Photograph
Variant Comic Covers, yay or nay? Let me just get one thing out of the way right off the bat here, this blog spot is not in any way shape or form bashing collectors who seek out and purchase variant comic covers. I enjoy them as much as the next person. Within the text, in this blog, you will find some pros and cons regarding variant comic book covers as seen by yours truly. Focusing more on the speculative, money side (expense) of the comics. Pretty things always cost more money. A pretty car, home, clothes, diamonds and onward, you … Continue reading To ‘Variant’ or not to ‘Variant’…
The early 1970s saw the beginnings of punk rock. Punk rock is a genre of rock and roll music that rejected the music of the time period with suggestive and provocative topics along with rough edged melodies, musical experimentation and … Continue reading Early Punk Rock
In this era of over bloated blockbusters and reboots of reboots its good to go back and reflect on what cinema once was – When motion pictures were black and white, but subjects and morals were layered in many shades of gray. This gray area is where writer producer Val Lewton thrived. Val Lewton was born in the Ukraine in 1904. Having left her husband, his mother took her children to Berlin and then emigrated to Port Chester, New York. Being raised in a household of nothing but women would later have an impact on the pictures he made as … Continue reading Shadow and Substance
When One Room is no Longer Enough The first public school in America is considered to be the Boston Latin School in 1635. Boston was well established and urban, so resources were available to provide a high-quality education. This was … Continue reading Country Schools
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