by Shawn Robare | May 4, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
It’s kind of strange sensation, but there are a lot of toys that should scream “80s” for me, but don’t. Stuff like G.I Joe and the Transformers are in that group, most likely because I never really stopped living with their branding over...
by Shawn Robare | May 3, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
It’s kind of weird when I think about it, but even though I feel like I experienced a good chunk of the television programming from the 80s (the first time around) it’s sort of impossible to have really gotten into most of the shows enough to really...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 30, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Today’s Wax Paper Pop Art is a wrapper from the 1980 Topps Weird Wheels sticker card set (discussed here.)
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...
