Hosive

in this segment, i’ll detail my amore for the art and medium of comics. the title comes from a comic shop i frequented as a kid and a nod to my boy q and his blog.

my mom let me read anything and everything when i was a kid. and with nearly weekly visits to forbidden planet on the weekends, i picked up all sorts of titles that became my “friends” during the summers; part of the comic reader childhood experience where imagination, superheroes and pulp literature intersected with long evenings during june, july and august.

many of the comics from my youth were thrown out or lost along the way. close to 10 years ago, i came across a comic liquidation…and they were selling two of my most beloved titles. arak, son of thunder…a conan the barbarian fantasy series that was way too adult and should have been way intense for me as a 10 year old but ok’d by my mom with her limited english skills; and mazing man…a quirky comic about a delusional wanna be super hero living in queens. i also unearthed and picked up another fantasy series called amethyst that i had minimal exposure but always wanted to try.

they had the entire runs of each of these comics including the specials, mini-series and annuals.  my scholar training from my master’s days always encouraged me to buy books even if i did not get to them right away because one day i might. i doubt my profs thought i would apply this principle to comics but i bought them all with that hope.

during my paternity leave, i’ve had time to dig up these comics, bag and board them and prepare them to be read. the first few weeks of baby life is close to the rhythms of war…long periods of waiting(or napping)and then brief moments of intense action. during my waiting times, i’ve decided to restore these comics to their current state. i’ll report on the actual content in the future. excited to be reunited with friends from nearly 30 years ago???