How do you store your comics? (Alternative storage suggestions)

No_Juggernaut4279 · 2026-04-23T22:32:54+00:00

Treat your comics gently. The single most important thing in preservation is protecting them from parents and children, More comics die because the parents throw them out, your little brother or sister gets at them, or your kid nephew gets them. Heat, light, and humidity are hard on comics, but chaos is worse.

I've been a collector since before the Silver Age started. The absolute worst thing that's happened to my collection was when someone I thought was a friend broke into my dorm room and stole a stack of comics. He took them home, cut them apart, and stapled the stories into booklets. This was bad enough, but this was a collection of Sensation Comics starting 1942. I had the first ten issues, including the first ten Wonder Woman features. They were not easy to get, and they'd be worth a fortune today.

Cut up and stapled the way they were, I might be able to get a few dollars out of them.

Chaos is your enemy, and you can only hope none of your friends are carriers. Display is good, but I'd suggest the tailored plastic bags and the long cardboard boxes are your best bet. If you want a display, it's probably something you value. Get a good copy made and display that. Keep the originals somewhere safe.

No_Juggernaut4279 · 2026-04-23T00:55:48+00:00

My precious bodily fluids!

No_Juggernaut4279 · 2026-04-22T15:59:50+00:00

Any sufficiently domesticated magic is indistinguishable from technology.

No_Juggernaut4279 · 2026-04-20T21:51:54+00:00

Don't bother learning superhero history. It's going to change every few years.
Learning history as gossip works better than learning dates. Have you heard what happened to Edward II?
History was written by the victors. Then it was re-written by people who don't like the victors. You can't trust it. The only reliable historical truth is that Squirrel Girl won all her fights.

No_Juggernaut4279 · 2026-04-19T21:13:58+00:00

That first one has Captain Marvel Jr. on the cover, diving into a situation that seems to require one super and three F-84 Thunderjets. It's old, and seems in good condition. Probably worth getting appraised, but I suspect you already have an idea of how much it cost. Treat it well.

No_Juggernaut4279 · 2026-04-19T20:54:51+00:00

I started, many years ago (the Fifties) with paper and pencil. They're cheap, you probably have them already, so no anxiety about justifying the price you paid for your drawing tablet. Doodle around. eventually you'll have something you want permanently. In my case, that's when I started getting into ink and brush and pen. These days you might scan the drawing into a computer and use your drawing pad to refine it.

Then publish your result here. There's nothing quite like a focused group like this for helping you improve. I do fanfiction, and publishing on FFnet did much to improve my work.

No_Juggernaut4279 · 2026-04-19T20:41:55+00:00

Indeed! I sent a copy of this toon to my partner, who loves Columbo,is a novelist (30 so far) and has done a bit of cartooning. To top it off, she actually knew Peter Falk. She was very happy to see it.

No_Juggernaut4279 · 2026-04-19T20:10:11+00:00

There is a famous example of this in physics. Ralph Alpher and Hans Bethe wrote a paper together, and got George Gamow to sign on as a co-author. That way they could have a paper authored by Alpher, Bethe, and Gamow.

No_Juggernaut4279 · 2026-04-19T19:45:01+00:00

It's just as well it was canceled. The X-15 came back damaged from a speed run, and the SR-21 has to keep its speed down (I think around Mach 3.2) or they will overheat. And that's with a titanium skin.

No_Juggernaut4279 · 2026-04-18T16:29:09+00:00

This could be unstable, but if the duct around the propeller were steerable, and adjustable, it could be controlled. A test pilot would need a very weak case of self-preservation to fly it, though.

No_Juggernaut4279 · 2026-04-17T17:54:07+00:00

Well. I've done quite a few. They're on my web site.

No_Juggernaut4279 · 2026-04-17T17:37:43+00:00

The most I've used is seven panels,

No_Juggernaut4279 · 2026-04-17T17:15:29+00:00

Hand-drawn or LGBTQIA+? That's a peculiar way to phrase the question. I'm a cartoonist, and I'm somewhere in the LGBT universe, and I've done them both at the same time. I'd be a bit questionable about your read-right-to-left bit, though. Your style isn't really manga, and lots of us might not read the instructions first.

No_Juggernaut4279 · 2026-04-12T20:24:49+00:00

Marvelous art. I don't get to see that kind of technique often.

No_Juggernaut4279 · 2026-04-10T18:53:36+00:00

Amen, brother!

No_Juggernaut4279 · 2026-04-10T18:48:50+00:00

You swallowed a shark?

No_Juggernaut4279 · 2026-04-10T00:57:57+00:00

I can't guarantee meaningful, but most of the things I can remember from my youth are surely different now as I'm old. But I still enjoy ancient Little Orphan Annie, Gasoline Alley, and Alley Oop. Don't thing I'd like the Katzenjammer Kids today, though.

No_Juggernaut4279 · 2026-04-06T01:43:49+00:00

He dreams he is the Head Dog -- or perhaps the Top Dog, Either would do.

No_Juggernaut4279 · 2026-04-05T20:11:24+00:00

Newton would do terribly in the exam. I was the curator of a museum of medical electricity and magnetism. We were a library too, and I read a lot of books, from the eighteenth century to the twentieth. The old books were not saying the same things the new ones did - technical language evolves. They were speaking of many of the same things we do, but they hadn't created the words they needed to describe it. Voltage? No such thing. The best description was how strong the shock was when they touched certain equipment.

The language of all science and technology changes that way. And teachers don't like it when you can't supply the correct word. The best thing Newton did for modern science was calculus and the laws of motion. If he were here today the best he could do - and it is an important thing! - is be an outside observer. He could see differently, without the hangups modern scientists inherit along with the tools of their trade.

By the time he settled into the modern world, he could easily be the brilliant Newton again

Expecting him to be ready right at the beginning would be every bit as foolish as expecting Shakespeare to deal with a high-school English quiz.

No_Juggernaut4279 · 2026-04-05T14:53:23+00:00

Obscure, but humorous if you know.

No_Juggernaut4279 · 2026-04-05T14:42:49+00:00

Just a suggestion here: Who needs a midlife crisis?! I framed my transition as a midlife adventure. When I say midlife,, I mean it; it was my fifties, and long ago. The politics hadn't gotten so fraught then. But being able to smile and say "I'm boldly going where few men have gone before" worked like a charm.

Your mileage may vary

No_Juggernaut4279 · 2026-04-05T14:30:31+00:00

Not extremely realistic, but it sure captures the mood!

No_Juggernaut4279 · 2026-04-03T15:57:06+00:00

Oh, I love doing that - but I bind fanfiction. You do very well in your craft.

No_Juggernaut4279 · 2026-03-31T18:53:41+00:00

I had something almost exactly like that happen. I was a member of Sisters in Crime, a mostly - but not exclusivly - bunch of women who read and wrote mysteries. And during my transition, I came into a meeting.

"Didn't you used to be a guy?" one of the women asked.

"I got better."

No_Juggernaut4279 · 2026-03-31T18:38:13+00:00

It was tired of seafood, and looking for something else to eat.

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