by Shawn Robare | Feb 8, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
This week brings yet another set of vintage book club flyers from the 80s, though sadly it’s also the last. So far I’ve covered the Troll and Weekly Reader flyers, and for this last installment I’m going to take a look at the largest of the...
by Shawn Robare | Feb 4, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
A little while ago I agreed to take part in a fun project for Charles over at Eclectorama called Spockcation 2009. The whole idea is that Charles would mail out one of his Spock Mego figures to various people in different states who would then take Spock around...
by Shawn Robare | Feb 2, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
**Update 11-7-2012** I believe I’ve finally found the name of the artist that worked on these crazy extreme 90s ads, Mark Fredrickson! Tipped off by a comment in my Flickr feed, I was pointed to this ebay auction for the original artwork to one of the “No...
by Shawn Robare | Feb 1, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I know it’s a little late for Christmas missives, but I was away from Branded during the holidays and I had totally intended to share this rad 1980 advertisement for the Schwinn Phantom Scrambler… This came out of an issue of Boy’s Life which I’ve...
by Shawn Robare | Jan 31, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
So this week I thought I’d dig a little deeper into the whole school book club flyer phenomenon of the 80s while also taking a look at one of the more recognizable clubs, Weekly Reader. Again, all of these scans come from the personal collection of the...
by Shawn Robare | Jan 28, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Been doing a bunch of collection culling, house cleaning and framing these past couple of weeks (trying to get a jump on Spring cleaning I guess), and in the process I’ve been digging back into my collection of Garbage Pail Kids. I’ve always wanted...
