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...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 23, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I’ve been thinking it might be fun to block out Fridays at Branded in the 80s for posting some of my favorite pop art, the super colorful simplified imagery of non-sport bubblegum card wax wrappers. So for this first in a series I present the 1st five...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 22, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Sometimes the most exciting aspects of nostalgia are those moments when I discover something that I never expected to exist. There’s a feeling I’ve tried to describe before, this jolt and tingling that I feel first in the pit of my stomach and then...
