Collecting Comics Senior Years (51:35, 118mb)
On the panel was Greg Koudoulian, Karen Green and Maggie Thompson. Greg started off showing a clip of Walter Cronkite doing a news story about comic books. He then spoke about the archives he has, Shel Dorf, Michael Dorf, some of Richard Alf, George Clayton Johnston, what is in them and what he has learned from it. Maggie Thompson spoke about dealing with the mental side of selling your collection as some people do and then regret it, either because they parted with something that meant something to them, or because prices go up after it’s sold and they wished they held on to it longer. Karen spoke about donating specifically to Columbia University and how they make it available to everybody and have at times gone out of the way to help people that can’t visit the collection in person. Among all this was discussion about knowing what you have and the best way to preserve it and when certain preservation methods began being used and why. Maggie spoke about her brother’s collection and how they are dealing with it including finding some original Savage Dragon art and giving it back to Erik Larsen as he had a house fire and lost everything, including a lot of original art. He was super grateful to get that art back.
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