I love collecting comics (including raw, HC collections, and slabs), original art (when I have the coin to spare), 1st print/editions of non-comic books I enjoy, and love notes from my wife (the amount of new items added on a weekly basis to the previously mentioned collections seems to directly influence this last collection).
Your favorite graphic novel of the last five years is… Upgrade Soul.
I collect original art from my favourite artists, but not all of it are from my favourite stories. One of those exceptions would be being fortunate enough to own a few pages of Pia and Jose's from Y. Big fan of BKV and Niko, congratulations on your latest endeavour!
and some action figures. I also like to get original art commissions. I have a really cool commission of The Stalk brandishing an array of weapons by the incredibly talented David Yardin. Would love to share a photo if there's a way to do so
I collect decks of playing cards. I also destroy or lose them at a slightly slower pace by playing games at bars and taking them on trips. I always try to teach acquaintances a new card game, Egyptian Ratscrew, Nerts, or Sergeant Major are my favourites to teach. If people like the game I give them the deck and tell them to teach someone. I also try get people to teach me games that only they know.
So a question for you two: What's a card game that you play that I might not know?
I collect odd socks that don't have holes in, with the hope that the matching sock will one day re-ppear, even though in my heart I know it's been discarded for no longer being fit for purpose.
Hi all! I collect iPods. I have well over 100. It started out with me trying to make money because I’m poor - utilizing the internet and my basic electronic skills to buy broken ones in bulk, fix and resell them on eBay. It quickly spiraled into an obsession.
What makes iPods so special to me is pretty simple. I grew up with them. That’s it. When I was in high school the 4th generation came out - that’s the one with the grey scroll wheel and the first time the iPod starts looking like an “iPod”. I specifically remember Christmas Day in the early 2000’s when I got mine. My mother was worried it would get stolen at school. “How could it get stolen?” I snapped. “I have my headphones plugged into it. Pretty sure I’d notice if the music stopped.”
I remember coming to school after Christmas Break ended and seeing my friend Kristy cry tears onto her new iPod over a boy. The Shins were playing.
I always thought the old tech would get steamrolled and replaced in my jelly brain, but it never did. I always kept a fondness for old tech, no matter how ridiculous and cumbersome it became as the world got along. But my obsession is more than nostalgic, it’s clinical, too. Studies show in a blind test boomers prefer the sound of vinyl - but surprisingly enough, millennials prefer the sound of MP3’s. Both formats distort the sound and neither is really great, all it means is whatever we grew up with is what we like.
So I could sit here and tell you the iPod has amazing battery life, the 5.5 generation has world class sound quality, none of my songs will ever get deleted by a streaming service, and works anywhere - with or without internet. But that shit doesn’t matter.
What matters is I grew up with it.
And so after a hard day, I get home, I open my garage drawer. There sits 109 iPods. If I needed to, I could have every one play The Shins, and I could cry anywhere I wanted to.
Most of the things I collect are mass-produced artifacts, though my favorites are the ones that have some kind of handmade element or are at least really distinctive as physical objects, and are very strongly associated with specific subcultures and moments--U.K. D.I.Y. post-punk singles from 1979-1981, LPs by Beatle impostors from early 1964, gift trinkets connected to particular Burning Man art projects, etc. Both of my favorite objects I own are sketchbooks with drawings made for me by a bunch of different artists, and I would guess that none of the artists in either sketchbook know who any of the artists in the other one are.
Your favorite graphic novel of the past five years is Carla Speed McNeil's "Chase the Lady." No, wait, that's mine. You might like it too, though.
Hmm. I wish I currently collected things, but I don’t. I used to collect baseball cards and loved all my Ken Griffey Jr. cards, but I gave them all to my twin brother because I thought combining our sets into one would be cooler than keeping them separate.
I don’t know much about current comics, but I’ll guess My Favorite Thing Is Monsters as your favorite of the last 5 years!
Just like BKV my collecting instinct went frenzy in the pandemic. When I started reading comics back in 2016 (I was already 22) I immediately went looking for the guy who did the drawings. Turned out one of those first comics came from Niko. I love everything the original pages from the script being turned into a scene, the flow of reading it panel by panel to the textures on the pages…. Truthfully I’ve been a Niko fan for a while and I can’t express my excitement enough to see you guys team up for a new project.
It’s always been something, comics, toys, books, records, CDs. The collecting gene is tenacious. I actually wrote two price guides on Simpsons Collectibles, an enthusiasm which I now leave to those with more space and disposable income. I similarly found that retail therapy helped me through COVID, though it mostly meant more stacks of CDs. I have a love for signed first editions, though it was easier and more fun pre-internet ( I miss the haggling and discoveries that marked old school record and book shows), though I still collect a handful of authors - David Mitchell being a current enthusiasm. I only have one or two pieces of original comic art, my favorite being the splash page by Tony Harris from the conclusion of EX MACHINA’s “Ex Cathedra” arc, when Mitchell Hundred tells the Pope what his vision told him. It’s one of my very favorite things.
Something I collect other than comics would be vintage computers. My favorite is a Commodore 64 with matching 1702 monitor!
My guess for your favorite graphic novel of the last 5 years would be Berlin by Jason Lutes. (Kinda counts since it was finally collected in a single book in 2018?) I thought that series was really impressive.
Much like a lot of other people on here I collect comics. But I have a real mania for anything by Grant Morrison. I guess the ‘heart’ of my collection would be an original page of artwork from Vol 2 by Phil Jimenez and John Stokes!
I recently started collecting my favorite comics in the last couple of years, I also collect Pop figures, horror movies and my Husband and I collect Blu rays.
Feb 4, 2022Liked by Brian K. Vaughan, Niko Henrichon
Desparate to see an Orange Knight and Black Coressian OGN.
I don't actively collect anything and usually just go for things that bring me joy, but this has left me with a rather large helping of books, comics, and funkos 🥳
Perhaps worth mentioning that one of my best thumbed books is the Saga Omnibus 1. Thanks for writing my fave story for a long time BKV, it absolutely rocks my world xx
I bet your favorite graphic novel of the last 5 years is something by Tillie Walden.
I love collecting comics (including raw, HC collections, and slabs), original art (when I have the coin to spare), 1st print/editions of non-comic books I enjoy, and love notes from my wife (the amount of new items added on a weekly basis to the previously mentioned collections seems to directly influence this last collection).
Your favorite graphic novel of the last five years is… Upgrade Soul.
I collect original art from my favourite artists, but not all of it are from my favourite stories. One of those exceptions would be being fortunate enough to own a few pages of Pia and Jose's from Y. Big fan of BKV and Niko, congratulations on your latest endeavour!
I collect comics, statutes, funko pops,
and some action figures. I also like to get original art commissions. I have a really cool commission of The Stalk brandishing an array of weapons by the incredibly talented David Yardin. Would love to share a photo if there's a way to do so
I collect decks of playing cards. I also destroy or lose them at a slightly slower pace by playing games at bars and taking them on trips. I always try to teach acquaintances a new card game, Egyptian Ratscrew, Nerts, or Sergeant Major are my favourites to teach. If people like the game I give them the deck and tell them to teach someone. I also try get people to teach me games that only they know.
So a question for you two: What's a card game that you play that I might not know?
I collect odd socks that don't have holes in, with the hope that the matching sock will one day re-ppear, even though in my heart I know it's been discarded for no longer being fit for purpose.
Hi all! I collect iPods. I have well over 100. It started out with me trying to make money because I’m poor - utilizing the internet and my basic electronic skills to buy broken ones in bulk, fix and resell them on eBay. It quickly spiraled into an obsession.
What makes iPods so special to me is pretty simple. I grew up with them. That’s it. When I was in high school the 4th generation came out - that’s the one with the grey scroll wheel and the first time the iPod starts looking like an “iPod”. I specifically remember Christmas Day in the early 2000’s when I got mine. My mother was worried it would get stolen at school. “How could it get stolen?” I snapped. “I have my headphones plugged into it. Pretty sure I’d notice if the music stopped.”
I remember coming to school after Christmas Break ended and seeing my friend Kristy cry tears onto her new iPod over a boy. The Shins were playing.
I always thought the old tech would get steamrolled and replaced in my jelly brain, but it never did. I always kept a fondness for old tech, no matter how ridiculous and cumbersome it became as the world got along. But my obsession is more than nostalgic, it’s clinical, too. Studies show in a blind test boomers prefer the sound of vinyl - but surprisingly enough, millennials prefer the sound of MP3’s. Both formats distort the sound and neither is really great, all it means is whatever we grew up with is what we like.
So I could sit here and tell you the iPod has amazing battery life, the 5.5 generation has world class sound quality, none of my songs will ever get deleted by a streaming service, and works anywhere - with or without internet. But that shit doesn’t matter.
What matters is I grew up with it.
And so after a hard day, I get home, I open my garage drawer. There sits 109 iPods. If I needed to, I could have every one play The Shins, and I could cry anywhere I wanted to.
Most of the things I collect are mass-produced artifacts, though my favorites are the ones that have some kind of handmade element or are at least really distinctive as physical objects, and are very strongly associated with specific subcultures and moments--U.K. D.I.Y. post-punk singles from 1979-1981, LPs by Beatle impostors from early 1964, gift trinkets connected to particular Burning Man art projects, etc. Both of my favorite objects I own are sketchbooks with drawings made for me by a bunch of different artists, and I would guess that none of the artists in either sketchbook know who any of the artists in the other one are.
Your favorite graphic novel of the past five years is Carla Speed McNeil's "Chase the Lady." No, wait, that's mine. You might like it too, though.
Hmm. I wish I currently collected things, but I don’t. I used to collect baseball cards and loved all my Ken Griffey Jr. cards, but I gave them all to my twin brother because I thought combining our sets into one would be cooler than keeping them separate.
I don’t know much about current comics, but I’ll guess My Favorite Thing Is Monsters as your favorite of the last 5 years!
Just like BKV my collecting instinct went frenzy in the pandemic. When I started reading comics back in 2016 (I was already 22) I immediately went looking for the guy who did the drawings. Turned out one of those first comics came from Niko. I love everything the original pages from the script being turned into a scene, the flow of reading it panel by panel to the textures on the pages…. Truthfully I’ve been a Niko fan for a while and I can’t express my excitement enough to see you guys team up for a new project.
Check out my NIKO HENRICHON CAF art gallery here: https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerydetailsearch.asp?artist=Niko+Henrichon&GCat=148965
It’s always been something, comics, toys, books, records, CDs. The collecting gene is tenacious. I actually wrote two price guides on Simpsons Collectibles, an enthusiasm which I now leave to those with more space and disposable income. I similarly found that retail therapy helped me through COVID, though it mostly meant more stacks of CDs. I have a love for signed first editions, though it was easier and more fun pre-internet ( I miss the haggling and discoveries that marked old school record and book shows), though I still collect a handful of authors - David Mitchell being a current enthusiasm. I only have one or two pieces of original comic art, my favorite being the splash page by Tony Harris from the conclusion of EX MACHINA’s “Ex Cathedra” arc, when Mitchell Hundred tells the Pope what his vision told him. It’s one of my very favorite things.
Something I collect other than comics would be vintage computers. My favorite is a Commodore 64 with matching 1702 monitor!
My guess for your favorite graphic novel of the last 5 years would be Berlin by Jason Lutes. (Kinda counts since it was finally collected in a single book in 2018?) I thought that series was really impressive.
Much like a lot of other people on here I collect comics. But I have a real mania for anything by Grant Morrison. I guess the ‘heart’ of my collection would be an original page of artwork from Vol 2 by Phil Jimenez and John Stokes!
I recently started collecting my favorite comics in the last couple of years, I also collect Pop figures, horror movies and my Husband and I collect Blu rays.
Finally picked up my first original art piece last year - Nightstalkers #8 by Ron Garney!
https://imgur.com/pxu4VDi
Desparate to see an Orange Knight and Black Coressian OGN.
I don't actively collect anything and usually just go for things that bring me joy, but this has left me with a rather large helping of books, comics, and funkos 🥳
Perhaps worth mentioning that one of my best thumbed books is the Saga Omnibus 1. Thanks for writing my fave story for a long time BKV, it absolutely rocks my world xx