by Shawn Robare | Oct 2, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Continuing the Halloweeny sticker fun this month, today I have another sheet of vintage Hallmark stickers. This one hails from 1981 and has a really nice mix of monsters in a very fun early 80s illustration style. I really miss this kind of loose cartooning in...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 1, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
It’s hard to break tradition, and the October tradition at Branded is to do my very best to treat write about or share something Halloweeny every day until Halloween. It’s the annual Countdown to Halloween, and this year is my 10th time celebrating this...
by Shawn Robare | Sep 23, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Back in 1997 when I first saw the Paul Thomas Anderson flick Boogie Nights I felt like my brain was going to melt. It wasn’t just that the film was amazing, it was and is still one of my favorite Anderson films, but it was one of the first times I experienced the...
by Shawn Robare | Sep 21, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
A couple weekends ago my girlfriend Jaime and I made the trek up to Oaks, Pennsylvania for Retro Con, a relatively recent toy and pop culture convention that I’ve wanted to check out for a few years and I had an absolute blast. There was a time in my life when I...
by Shawn Robare | Aug 19, 2015 | Look
With the release of the first two trailers for the new big screen, live action adaptation of Jem & the Holograms only a couple of months away it’s had me thinking a lot about the original cartoon and toy line and what made those so special to me growing up...
