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A quick YouTube tour of the Charles Schulz Library at the Center For Cartoon Studies in White River Junction,Vermont. This is a bit what I imagine my library to look like in my dream home. Well,my sub-Ellison Wonderland dream home. (Found via The Comics Reporter) Back soon after a brief career &rest related vacation. Many more thoughts to come. One of the reasons to stop buying just everything that catches your eye,to limit purchases to things that really matter and that you can take the time to enjoy,is that when something really special comes along it means that much more. Case in point…  Full Image After Break I think this is the start of a regular feature on PN6700:Temptations. No matter how much you want to stop buying,sometimes they make something so beautiful it is hard to say no. At least in this case I have said no so far:  Photo borrowed from the Drawn &Quarterly Blog No,I am not linking to a picture of a lady (publisher Drawn &Quarterly‘s publicity assistant,Claire Bennett). Rather,to my shame,I am sharing a photo of the two fine publications she holds in her hands. One is the preliminary cover for a collection of George Sprott:(1894-1975) Why does the pusherman have to have such sweet,sweet smack?
I used to joke about having OCD,but there are people in this world whose lives are crippled by that affliction. I used to joke about being “addicted”,but again I have know people who have struggled with the actual disease and know it should never be applied to this. I have fought over the definition of geek versus nerd (and true to form,know that only I am right). But in the end,the only truly honest statement can be: My name is Chris… and I have a ridiculously stupid number of comics. Twelve book shelves filled with graphic novels. 25 to 26 “short boxes” of comic books. Ten to twelve short boxes of comics related magazines (which are at least legitimately work related). Various other pieces of sequential art scattered elsewhere around my house. The look on the faces of the movers when they showed up at my apartment in Rhode Island to move me will be forever scarred into my soul. When I was in college and was just starting to actively build a music collection,my roommate (who had the same compulsion) turned to me one day,pointed at our respective CD collections,and said “Those there,those are our cars.” Today I look around my apartment at my books and think “Those there,I don’t even want to think of what those are.”
And that’s what I hope this will be. My semi-public therapy sessions as I try to work through in my mind what brought me to this point and where I want to go from here. I also hope it will be a way of celebrating what I love about comic books. I know there is a reason I have these things,beyond nostalgia or misdirection of sexual energy,and I want to better understand that. I also want to celebrate the collected edition,the graphic novel,the tradepaperback. I want to share “shelf porn”,an internet meme of photographing the way you display your books and comics to the world. I will share my own and direct you to others.
So a bit of philosophizing and self-examination… a bit of anti-materialism possession reduction diary… and a bit of I don’t know. And now,on to the shelf porn… Coming Soon to PN6700-PN6790…
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,the serial by Seth that recently ran in the New York Times (I think? whatever periodical has been serializing Daniel Clowes,Jamie Hernandez,and the other guys). The other is 
,a collection of work by the celebrated Canadian cartoonist. For many more pictures of this book 
