Cool and Collected - collecting pop culture memories and memorabilia
A general discussion of collecting cool things, such as vintage and modern toys, comic books, ephemera.
Illustrator-extraordinaire, Tom Whalen, is a busy guy! It seems like every day, a new piece of his work zooms around the interwebs. Today’s dose of Mr. Whalen comes to us from Dark Hall Mansion, which strikes gold (er, yellow) again with their latest release of art prints, this time celebrating the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine. This is first [...]
The final posters in Mondo’s Avengers series were revealed today, and the Avengers have officially assembled. While each of these posters is fantastic in its own right, I really wish Mondo would have gone with one artist for the series. It would have been great to see a series similar to Olly Moss’ or Tyler [...]
Consigned by Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman; the first full artwork of the TMNT, which led to one of the most successful comics character franchises in history DALLAS – The first-ever artwork of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – the illustration that launched one of the most successful character franchises in history – created for fun one night in [...]
This week’s League topic is a show and tell event, where you’re asked to show off your prized possession. Many of my fellow bloggers have already chimed in with sentimental objects that tug at your heart strings and ooze nostalgia… I’m not going to do that. Believe me, It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s [...]
The last two posts showed how I made the forest diorama, and now it’s time to see it in action… G.I. Joe action figures fit right into the landscape. By adding a few sticks to the scene, the photo has more depth. A red light bulb was used to simulate the brake lights of the [...]
In the first part of this series, I showed you how to make the diorama base out of styrofoam insulation board, glue and paint. The fun continues here with the addition of the trees… Insulation foam is a great material for dioramas because it is so easy to work with. After doing a little yard [...]
Here I go again… I had some insulation foam laying around, and Ithought I could put it to good use. The base is 2″ thick foam board cut to a 2′ square. Liquid Nails was used to glue down pieces of pink 1″ foam board, to make the contours of a hill. Once the glue [...]
The fine folks at Dark Hall Mansion have been putting out some pretty amazing prints lately. Remember Tom Whalen’s Great Pumpkin posters and those Snoopy posters by Laurent Durieux? Well, they have raised the bar even higher with this week’s release of officially licensed GIGANTOR prints by Laurent Durieux… “Gigantor: The Lab” Standard Edition of 150, 18 [...]
The other day I showed off Mondo’s Beneath the Planet of the Apes poster, and now, for your viewing enjoyment is the other POTA poster I was able to score… It’s hard for me to express exactly how excited I was to see the Planet of the Apes poster series when Mondo announced them. All [...]
My latest Mondo posters recently arrived and I thought I would show some detailed photos which would explain why I get so excited over their prints. Last month, Mondo released a set of six Planet of the Apes posters, something I have been dreaming of for a long time. I grabbed a Conquest poster on [...]
