Who Am I?

My name is Chris. I have been collecting comics since 1983, and reading them since at last 1977. I have been trained as an actor, a radio producer, a graphic designer, a web designer, and, most recently, a librarian. I have been doing graphic design and layout for various comic book related publications for TwoMorrows Publishing since 2001 and am currently the designer for Roy Thomas' Alter Ego. In my main occupation I serve as Digital Resources Librarian at the Flaxman Library at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. You can contact me at chris@chrisdaydesign.com

Happy Halloween

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…

Gahan Wilson: 50 Years Of Playboy Comics

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Memorial Day Process Report

Weeding Round 2 (Mar 22, 2009): 4In the words of Jon Bongiovi: “Oh, oh. We’re half way there. Oh, oh. Living on a prayer.” They were wise words in the 1980s and they are just as wise today. I started this blog back in February to track my journey of examination and elimination. Now, four months later this blog has seen some more reflection, some bellybutton gazing, some sharing my home with visitors from Comic Book Resources, and lots and lots of photos of books and bookshelves.

The last month has seen fewer blog entries as I have been working over time on the process of actually getting rid of these belongings that I’ve been examining for so long. I first mentioned the great Weed back in earlky March (see “Weeding Round One“) and even after making the decision to get rid of these items, and pulling all those books and comics, I still had to do something with them. So it has been evenings full of photographing and organizing and grouping and describing and listing on Ebay. At first it was incredibly daunting, but luckily I found a piece of software that made my life a little easier. But now I’ve got new auctions going up five nights a week, with anywhere between 60 and 100 listings up at any given time. It’s taking up a lot of my free time in the immediate, but hope to be through the busy period within the next month and have that much more of my life back.

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Almost Back: A Library Of Library Links

nerdery102-1-700x524Isn’t this what happens to all the best bloggers: you get a little publicity and suddenly, writer’s block. It happened to J.D. Salinger, it happened to Harper Lee, it happened  to Stephen King, and now me: one big success and then, bam!, nothing. Well, my excuse was that over the last two  weeks with most of my free time spent working on the grand culling/eBay project (more on that in a post later this weekend); I honestly don’t think that Harper Lee had an excuse that good.

But I did want to share some amazing book collection links that I’ve gathered over the recent history. Some really good “Shelf Porn” entries, the  bookshelves of the rich and famous, and an example of what I always imagined my own collection to look like in my head.

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