Rich,
There are a few bright rays of hope out there. I had an eight-year kid
of a friend of mine...his dad is kind of a normie, i.e., not a huge
movie geek...walk into my office and look at my posters. It was like he
had walked into the Sistine Chapel. He had actually sought out and
watched gems like "The Screaming Skull", "I Was a Teenage Werewolf", and
"Beast With a Million Eyes". "What about Harry Potter and Batman,?", I
asked. He replied that that stuff was OK, but he really liked the "weird
old movies". I wanted to adopt him on the spot.
I just gave my best friend's son, who is also eight, a one sheet from
"The Boy Who Cried Werewolf". He was absolutely thrilled, and now calls
me up asking for recommendations for movies to watch and what posters to
get. I am going to get him going on Hitchcock next week. We're going
over to his parents' house to watch "Psycho". So...corrupt a young mind,
create a future customer. Let's keep the hobby alive any way we can!
Re/ the video game culture...it's funny...I told one of my guitar
students that I used to have the first home Atari video system almost
new in a box, but I threw it out years ago. He gave me the same look I
gave my dad when he told me about throwing out his Superman and Batman
comics when he went to college. (Apparently, those Atari systems are now
considered extremely valuable retro-old-school treasures.)
It will be interesting to see the next generation of collectors, what
they collect, and how they transact trade with one another. The
collector's gene never goes away, it just mutates like a virus.
Greg Douglass
Richard Halegua Comic Art wrote:
Sean
I know you know the answers to this post and are just trying to bring
other people's understanding of it up to snuff.
In case you don't know.. people under a certain age are more
interested in video games and dvd's than any other popular culture media
It just happens to be what these kids spent all their time with.
Playing Nintendo and X-Box for 16 hours on end
so what will really be the great collectible in the future are the
video games in the boxes and the old video game players and even to a
lesser extent the artwork on the boxes.. However because most of the
art is now computer generated, that area will have a limitation.
I already know of at least 1 really nice collection that a member on
the CGC boards has
Meanwhile the other side is that, as Bruce has pointed out in the
past, there is no place where a person can really go on entry level to
find out about posters. They aren't sold at theatres which is the
likely place to create collectors. So there's no entrenue. The only
places I know of where these people can get introduced to them is a
Wal Mart or Target etc where they sell repros of stuff and scene posters.
All hobbying of the past generations is going to be historical. The
next generations will be doing what is nostalgia to them.. and seeing
as B&W movies are forbidden to young folks.. we already know where
that stuff is eventually headed
At 01:46 PM 5/30/2009, Sean Linkenback wrote:
One thing that I noticed while walking the floors of Cinevent was
what seemed to be a dearth of “young blood” at the show, most obvious
in the form of no younger dealers (I think I was the baby at the show
and I turned 40 this year) and also in no younger collectors in
attendance.
I certainly realize that eBay and the internet in general have had a
chilling effect on conventions/shows overall, but I was still
surprised by what I perceived to be a lack of a younger audience
interested in movie paper.
When doing comic shows, there would always be the “original dealers”
who have been selling since the 60s/70s and are still hauling around
merchandise in the same boxes they used in 1967, then there would be
the guys who started in the 80s/90s who now have a more
advanced/mature inventory and offerings, and then the “young guns”
who had recently gotten started and had vast inventories of new “hot”
comics. The trend would always be that as time goes on, attrition
takes a few out of each level, while some step up to the next and
more “young guns” enter and start the cycle over.
I really don’t see this happening (at shows) with movie paper. There
wasn’t a single dealer at the show set up selling rolls of new Dark
Knight or Star Trek posters or whatever the flavor of the month is. I
know that some are out there – I see them on eBay and on the boards.
Do you guys go to shows at all? Or is it that you find Cinevent full
of “older” collectors who don’t’ want posters from any movie made in
color? Or is it that it is just so much easier to send an email out
to your customer list and let them know you have the new
Transformers2 poster that you don’t need to spend the extra money to
go to a show and try to add to your clientele?
Just curious about all this, as I think it would be great if there
was a huge poster show where dealers of all eras were set up and
there were enough collectors there to make it worthwhile.
Sean
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