by Shawn Robare | Aug 12, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
So in 1983 the various companies making toothpaste decided to bring their product competition to comic book pages in the form of some dramatic stories aimed at kids. Brushing your teeth was no longer a chore, it was WAR, and Crest and Aim were enlisting...
by Shawn Robare | Aug 10, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I recently picked up a big run of Muppet Magazine and while flipping through the issues I was astounded by the number of awesome advertisements. I figured I’d share some of them here and there, and this week I thought it would be fun to take a look at some...
by Shawn Robare | Aug 6, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
To cap off the E.T. theme this week, here’s a better look at the wax wrapper from that Buster Browns shoe ad I shared on Tuesday. E.T Topps bubblegum cards, circa 1982.
by Shawn Robare | Aug 5, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I think I’ve written about this before, but there’s aspect to American pop culture that I find endlessly fascinating; this deep need for sustainable continuity. Though we’re fanatics for origin stories, once an idea is set into motion we very...
by Shawn Robare | Aug 3, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
T.L. over at Flashlights are Something to Eat has been posting a bunch of vintage E.T. goodness that I’ve had a lot of fun reading, so I thought I’d take a second and riff off that today. Watching E.T. in the theater was one of those seminal...
by Shawn Robare | Jul 30, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
To sort of keep this week’s McDonalds posts going I thought I’d take a minute to share some awesome trading cards from the impressive collection of the one and only Brandon of the Waffle Whiffer Zone. Brandon’s site and Flickr feed have been a...
