by Shawn Robare | Jun 11, 2007 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Finally, after a month of waiting, I have my own car back from the shop. The paint job looks great again (as it should for the frickin’ price my insurance company paid, which makes me wonder what in the hell kind of paint job you’d get at a Maaco for only...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 8, 2007 | Branded in the 80s, Read
While rifling through more comics and comic scans I’ve managed to come across a few more cool Saturday Morning Cartoon ads from the mid to late 70s, so I’ve put them together as a sort of addendum to the Essential Saturday Morning Cartoon Ads, 1979-1989,...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 7, 2007 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I really haven’t written all that much about my stint collecting comics in the pages of Branded, so I thought I’d rectify that by sharing some advertisements for comic crossovers that I was mildly obsessed with as a kid. Though, like most kids, I had my...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 5, 2007 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Man, what a weird freaking month it’s been. I can’t wait for everything to start calming down, hopefully by the end of this week when I’ll hopefully finally have my car back from the shop (stupid vandals) and will have gotten back into the...
by Shawn Robare | May 31, 2007 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Though I believe that the idea of using cartoons as 25-minute food and toy ads began in the 60s and 70s, the practice was perfected in the 80s. As a perfect example of this I present this 15-page preview of the M.A.S.K. comic book, which was added to a bunch of...
by Shawn Robare | May 30, 2007 | Branded in the 80s, Read
So recently, and I use recently in the loosest way possible (and in comparison to my obsession with 20-30 year old nostalgia), I got into a French/Japanese cartoon from the 80s called the Mysterious Cities of Gold. I’m not sure how well known the cartoon is, I...
