by Shawn Robare | May 29, 2019 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I’ll be the first person to admit that most times Hallmark non-branded stickers from the 80s are generally weird and silly and very rarely seem cohesively designed. There are a lot of anthropomorphic items like food, shoes, and dust bunnies, quip-y stickers...
by Shawn Robare | May 28, 2019 | Branded in the 80s, Read
It’s funny, having just written a piece riffing on the idea that I don’t “go in” for many modern takes on nostalgic properties, I find myself getting pulled into and won over by stuff left and right. In fact, the latest nostalgic callback I...
by Shawn Robare | May 23, 2019 | Branded in the 80s, Read
When you find yourself perusing the internet looking for 30 year-old stickers, sometimes you can’t fight that battle with precision strikes, yanking only the desired sheets, sets, and singles from auctions. In the past 10 years folks who sell ephemera like...
by Shawn Robare | May 22, 2019 | Branded in the 80s, Read
You know what I haven’t talked about in a long time? Stickers. In the early days of this site I spent an inordinate amount of time discussing 80s era stickers and sticker collecting. I probably burnt myself out on the subject a bit, but that never stopped me...
by Shawn Robare | May 8, 2019 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I tend to sidestep talk of modern nostalgia-themed pop culture here at Branded because nine times out of ten I really don’t dig most of it. Most of the movies mining 80s era properties, either the relaunches of older cartoons and television series like the...
by Shawn Robare | May 3, 2019 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I’ve been a fan of Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens) since I first saw his HBO special with my mother one summer weekend in the early 80s. The humor was perfect for my age, and just raunchy enough at the corners that decades later I’m still finding new bits...
