For the fans in the 70's and 80's this was our Wizard. Comic Buyers Guide was the best place to get comics news/interviews etc. The classifieds were where we could buy and sell old books, original art and for the small publishers, an affordable place to promote your work. I'd be on-board for more dives into CBG in future episodes.
They were selling cassettes of radio shows in the early 80s in bookstores. The only place I saw stuff from Crumb was at the house of the lady who watched me after school in 1971-1972 when I was in second grade. Her college age son was collecting Crumb.
Captain George ran a used bookstore on a little side street off Yonge in Toronto. As he moved on to Comics and Movie posters, the shop became powerfully well known throughout Ontario. Sometimes it required train trips from London to visit for the day. I believe it was Markham Street.
Definitely reel to reel audio tape! The brother of a old girlfriend from the mid seventies had the original Star Trek episodes on clunky tapes! lol! I started reading the Buyers Guide back early summer of 1973, it had the premiere of E-Man by Nick Cuti(RIP) and Joe Staton (and his wife,Hilary.👍 Anytime you guys want to review the pioneering daze I’m in! 🎯❤️Keep reading and making comix!👋
Ha ha that was serendipitous--just yesterday, I read John Jackson Miller's history of the CBG over at his blog. He talks about how competitors like Wizard and, of course, the Internet, which killed the adzine market, contributed to the end of the CBG (as did its parent company's resistance to establishing a web presence until it was too late). I started subscribing to the CBG around the '90s or so and stayed with it to the end. It was a great way to stay connected to comics news before the Web came along. I guess because of the tabloid size and newsprint quality in its heyday, I didn't keep or collect all of my copies like I did my Comics Journals and other comics and news zines. Besides, as a weekly in those days, those back issues really piled up quickly! But I do still have some issues saved, mostly if I had a letter of them or got mentioned or reviewed. I've started scanning those pieces for posterity. Miller also has written extensively about his time at the Comics Retailer magazine. You should do a piece on that magazine too. As a publisher, I used to receive that as well.
Some of that typewriting in those classifieds was done on IBM Selectrics. Very straight, very neat. Interchangeable "globes’ allowed different fonts.
For the fans in the 70's and 80's this was our Wizard. Comic Buyers Guide was the best place to get comics news/interviews etc. The classifieds were where we could buy and sell old books, original art and for the small publishers, an affordable place to promote your work. I'd be on-board for more dives into CBG in future episodes.
Just a matter of getting our hands on 'em.
@@CartoonistKayfabe I'll do some digging and see what I can find in the attic
Wow, fantastic little walk down memory lane. Way before the internet and personal computers...I lived it and it's still kind of hard to imagine now.
Larry Todd did in fact contribute to Cherry Pop Tart - but he's best known for Dr Atomic.
Also carried on Vaughn Bode's Cobalt 60 along with Mark Bode.
They were selling cassettes of radio shows in the early 80s in bookstores. The only place I saw stuff from Crumb was at the house of the lady who watched me after school in 1971-1972 when I was in second grade. Her college age son was collecting Crumb.
We’re talking 71. Reel to reel tape.
Captain George ran a used bookstore on a little side street off Yonge in Toronto. As he moved on to Comics and Movie posters, the shop became powerfully well known throughout Ontario. Sometimes it required train trips from London to visit for the day.
I believe it was Markham Street.
Man, a shoot interview with Jan Strnad would be brilliant. I hope it does happen.
Buddy Saunders owned all the comic shops in my town. I'd go in and ask for Eightball or Hate and they'd act like they were gonna call the cops.
Definitely reel to reel audio tape! The brother of a old girlfriend from the mid seventies had the original Star Trek episodes on clunky tapes! lol! I started reading the Buyers Guide back early summer of 1973, it had the premiere of E-Man by Nick Cuti(RIP) and Joe Staton (and his wife,Hilary.👍 Anytime you guys want to review the pioneering daze I’m in! 🎯❤️Keep reading and making comix!👋
Ha ha that was serendipitous--just yesterday, I read John Jackson Miller's history of the CBG over at his blog. He talks about how competitors like Wizard and, of course, the Internet, which killed the adzine market, contributed to the end of the CBG (as did its parent company's resistance to establishing a web presence until it was too late). I started subscribing to the CBG around the '90s or so and stayed with it to the end. It was a great way to stay connected to comics news before the Web came along. I guess because of the tabloid size and newsprint quality in its heyday, I didn't keep or collect all of my copies like I did my Comics Journals and other comics and news zines. Besides, as a weekly in those days, those back issues really piled up quickly! But I do still have some issues saved, mostly if I had a letter of them or got mentioned or reviewed. I've started scanning those pieces for posterity.
Miller also has written extensively about his time at the Comics Retailer magazine. You should do a piece on that magazine too. As a publisher, I used to receive that as well.
You’re buying those radio shows on a reel to reel tape machine.
Great episode!
Oh, yeah. CosmicCon in 1972. …