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Why do we (I) have this drive to collect rectangles of pulp wood and ink?
builderboy:
it is definitely the space issue! She loves a neat house, and my piles o boxes and books drive her MAD.
Congrats on 30 years, narf!
Geo (RIP):
--- Quote from: builderboy on March 21, 2011, 08:40:00 AM ---Strange stuff, this collector mentality thing! 25 years of marriage, and its practically the only thing that gets me into hot water with my wife. ;D
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Reminder to self: Don't let the wife read this, I have enough problems with the books I now have, don't have to add fuel to the fire with her on this.
Geo
misappear:
I don't have more than maybe twenty actual paper comics left. i've a silly amount of digital comics, which I've loaded on to DVDs. Thousands and thousands of books taking up the area of a shoebox. I suppose I'd prefer to own paper, but the expense!! Hopefully, the DVDs won't disintegrate in my lifetime.
--Dave
JVJ (RIP):
--- Quote from: builderboy on March 21, 2011, 08:40:00 AM ---
Strange stuff, this collector mentality thing! 25 years of marriage, and its practically the only thing that gets me into hot water with my wife. ;D
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As I mentioned last week, bb,
Karen and I just celebrated 40 years and NOT ONCE have we ever had an argument about comics. She won't let me keep comics in the Living Room or the Kitchen, other than that, no sweat. But she is very happy with my choices of art, with the aforementioned Jeff Jones statues, Frazetta, Stout, Vess, Wildey (and Gerome, Lynd Ward, William Holman Hunt, and Harry Rountree) in our Living Room.
She's a very special lady.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
builderboy:
You are one lucky guy, Jim...in more ways than I can count. Karen, the collection, the associations you have made...you name it. While I am highly familiar with the first list of artists (some of my all time fave comic artists, no less), I will have to do some research on the second list. I suspect they will knock my socks off, given the context of the list.
My comics never make it to the living room, either. They fill the two rooms of the third floor, and also crowd the room I use as my scanning/drawing studio. Occasionally, a select handful make it to my night stand.
A lot in shelving units, a lot in comic long boxes. I am torn...do I leave them exposed to light and potential fading, or put them in a box, where nibbling bugs are more likely to attack? Ah, what a quandry!
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