Wax Paper Pop Art #17: Jumping the shark, In Space!
Felling like a bloated, overblown spy adventure in space today. Moonraker Bubblegum cards from...
Read MorePosted by Shawn Robare | Aug 13, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Wax Paper Pop Art |
Felling like a bloated, overblown spy adventure in space today. Moonraker Bubblegum cards from...
Read MorePosted by Shawn Robare | Aug 12, 2010 | Branded in the 80s |
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,...
Read MorePosted by Shawn Robare | Aug 10, 2010 | Branded in the 80s |
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...
Read MorePosted by Shawn Robare | Aug 6, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Wax Paper Pop Art |
To cap off the E.T. theme this week, here’s a better look at the wax wrapper from that...
Read MorePosted by Shawn Robare | Aug 5, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Overdue Books |
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,...
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