Post by CHANCE BOND on May 5, 2015 22:11:43 GMT
This is a question that we should all ask ourselves. How did we start out? Was it a simple glimpse of a simple visual gag? Or was it something more deep? Do we have a connection to what we collect, or do we just collect because it is there? Well, for starters, let me tell you about my story, and how I began collecting Newspaper Comic Strips.
How I Began:
It all began on a cold winters morning. I was still living up in Fairbanks Alaska (my birth-place, and hometown) when a simple glimpse of that day's newspaper caught my eyes. I was young, about six years old at the time. Now, mind you, I hadn't a clue as to what I was looking at. But, I loved the simple layout and font of the strip. Later, I would find out that this was a Garfield strip from 2006. It was February the 17th, and I was bored.(http://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2006/02/17) So, as any good child would do, I began to read! I read the strip, and the strips surrounding it. Of course, there were not many since the Daily News Miner had limited income and profit. They were in Black and White, and I just simply fell in love with them. The following day, I was able to go through a whole stack of old newspaper that my grandfather had saved. I fell in love with one character in particular... Garfield! As most young bucks of my time, the internet wasn't really a big priority in my life. Heck, I didn't start going onto the internet until I was eight years of age. I decided right then and there, that I would start collecting these Garfield strips. Whenever the daily newspaper came to our doorstep, I would run out and get it, and then wait for my Grandfather to finish reading it, at which point he would let me read it, but wouldn't let me clip out the Garfield section until it was 7:00 at night (30 minutes before my bedtime).
How I Began:
It all began on a cold winters morning. I was still living up in Fairbanks Alaska (my birth-place, and hometown) when a simple glimpse of that day's newspaper caught my eyes. I was young, about six years old at the time. Now, mind you, I hadn't a clue as to what I was looking at. But, I loved the simple layout and font of the strip. Later, I would find out that this was a Garfield strip from 2006. It was February the 17th, and I was bored.(http://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2006/02/17) So, as any good child would do, I began to read! I read the strip, and the strips surrounding it. Of course, there were not many since the Daily News Miner had limited income and profit. They were in Black and White, and I just simply fell in love with them. The following day, I was able to go through a whole stack of old newspaper that my grandfather had saved. I fell in love with one character in particular... Garfield! As most young bucks of my time, the internet wasn't really a big priority in my life. Heck, I didn't start going onto the internet until I was eight years of age. I decided right then and there, that I would start collecting these Garfield strips. Whenever the daily newspaper came to our doorstep, I would run out and get it, and then wait for my Grandfather to finish reading it, at which point he would let me read it, but wouldn't let me clip out the Garfield section until it was 7:00 at night (30 minutes before my bedtime).