Blast From The Past

I shuffled things around on the bookshelves the other day and found some of my old comics from when I used to do science fiction conventions.  Self published work like Barr Wars, and graphic novels from back when THOSE were brand new on the market, such as Duncan and Mallory, Omaha The Cat Dancer, the old Phil Foglio work and a bunch of other things like the Centaur's Gatherum.

Wow, most are dated from the 1987 to 1992 years. There was a huge surge of good work being published back then in those years, before the economy tanked in the early 1990's.  It brought back such memories.......  Half those artists I never heard from again, they just disappeared into the woodwork. Names I was very familiar with, they just stopped drawing/producing.  That's so sad. 

Some of it shaped what I do now, and all of it was entertaining to me, though the Duncan and Mallory graphic novels are rather simplistic to me at this point.  All the characters smile too much.

Not sure if I should sell them now, or keep them, or what.  My interests have changed enough that some aren't what I want to hold onto.  But it's all original work, printed by small publishers (most of whom have bitten the dust decades ago).