by Shawn Robare | Mar 8, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Well, a bit delayed, but finally here is the 1988 Donruss/Leaf set of Baseballs’ Greatest Grossouts sticker cards that I teased a couple weeks ago… This set is the second series and the sister set to the Awesome All*Stars stickers from 1988, and again...
by Shawn Robare | Mar 3, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
So, I thought I was going to be able to get to scanning the Baseballs’ Greatest Grossouts stickers earlier in the week, but that fell through so I thought I’d bump up this week’s Wax Paper Pop Art. Hopefully I’ll be able to tackle those...
by Shawn Robare | Mar 1, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
**Update** Wow, I’m super stoked by the response to the postcards! A bunch have found homes all over the world, but there are still some left. So if you’d like to receive one and haven’t written in yet, don’t hesitate! Over the...
by Shawn Robare | Feb 28, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
After reviewing the documentary, Candyman: The Dave Klein story, the film (and Hillary Buckholtz over at I’m Remembering) reminded me that I had yet to talk about another flick that I’d been meaning to write about for a while, The Rock-afire...
by Shawn Robare | Feb 25, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
So for this week’s Wax Paper Pop Art I thought I’d provide a teaser for a set of stickers that I’m going to share on next week’s Peel Here column. 1989’s Baseballs’ Greatest Grossouts sticker cards were the follow-up set to...
by Shawn Robare | Feb 23, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been sharing some fun stuff from the pages of the obscure Scholastic publication Maniac Magazine. This week I thought I’d go ahead and give an overview of what this periodical was like. If I had to pin it down I’d...