Nate San's Paper Gold blog

 

 

I got a note from Nate today saying that he's a local collector of comic books who has a newsletter where he writes about them.  His most recent post is a review of Awesome Con:

Awesome(?) Con

In which I kick off this year's con season

Nate Sans

Paper Gold Apr 12, 2025

https://natesans.substack.com/p/awesome-con

I have subscribed and I'd encourage you to do so as well. Here's some of the previous comics content that caught my attention:

 

 Media & Memory: An Ode to Trash Culture and the Pack Rat [Helen of Wyndhorn]
Nate Sans
Paper Gold Jan 24, 2025
https://natesans.substack.com/p/media-and-memory

Two Reviews - Hollywood: The Oral History and MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios
Old Hollywood, New Hollywood, and Marvel Studios
Nate Sans
Paper Gold Oct 10, 2024
https://natesans.substack.com/p/two-reviews-hollywood-the-oral-history

Adventures in comic art: Part One of >1 - An introduction to "The Hobby"
Nate Sans
Paper Gold Jun 11, 2024
https://natesans.substack.com/p/adventures-in-comic-art

Further adventures in comic art: Part Two - the whys of it all
Nate Sans
Paper Gold Jun 25, 2024
https://natesans.substack.com/p/further-adventures-in-comic-art

Warren Bernard Collection Tour and Interview (UPDATED)

Warren Bernard Collection Tour
Jim Rugg and Ed Piskor
Cartoonist Kayfabe (December 15 2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaW4GR8hRag


The Warren Bernard Shoot Interview
Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg
Cartoonist Kayfabe (June 28 2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_jdZKOovBY

and now updated with a third WB interview!

Vintage Sunday Funnies (with Warren Bernard)

Cartoonist Kayfabe July 13, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg6bN-qV6-g

The great super-collector, curator, author,and executive director of the Small Press Expo, Warren Bernard stopped through Pittsburgh and brought along some vintage Sunday Funnies sections to put under the microscope!

Cartoons and pencil sharpeners

I met Bob Cantor at a party yesterday. Bob collects toy pencil sharpeners and then paints them as subjects of oil paintings. Of relevance to us here is his subcollection of cartoon pencil sharpeners.

A collector's account in the Post

There's quite a bit of overlap between book and comic book collectors these days...

Dispatch from the hoard
People who collect things and those who don't can be friends
Washington Post Sunday, January 31, 2010

The accompanying photo of generic comic books is actually Steve Geppi's collection at the Geppi Entertainment Museum in Baltimore