by Shawn Robare | Apr 30, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Today’s Wax Paper Pop Art is a wrapper from the 1980 Topps Weird Wheels sticker card set (discussed here.)
by Shawn Robare | Apr 29, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
After reading Adam Eisenberg’s Thundarr article from a 1980 issue of Fantastic magazine earlier in the week, I’ve been thinking a lot about the issue of violence and marketing in cartoons, and the whole debacle of Action for Children’s Television in...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 28, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Riffing on a idea that Jerzy Drozd (of the Art & Story podcast, as well as a co-host with my on the Saturday Supercast) mentioned on his new A&S Supreme content podcast, Thunderpunch Daily, I’ve been thinking about those (as he framed it) couch jumping...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 27, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I found some time this weekend and scanned another Thundarr the Barbarian article. This one comes from an issue of Fantastic from 1980, though for the life of me I can’t remember which month. It was written by Adam Eisenberg and makes a nice companion piece to...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 26, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I’ve been thinking a little bit about 80s era robot nerdom because of all the excellent research and work that Steve, over at the Roboplastic Apocalypse, has been putting into his Robo Force blog-a-thon. Not only has he dug deep into the surprisingly...
