Not that long ago one of my nieces and her boyfriend came over for a visit.
They're both 20-somethings, both into art, particularly the whole subculture
of graffiti art and everything related to it. They went crazy when they saw
AIP stuff like The Brain That Wouldn't Die and X: The Man With the X-Ray
Eyes. They also loved the blaxploitation and exploitation stuff from the
70s.
My daughter, meanwhile, also 20-something and also an artist, has her loft
walls covered with The Thing With Two Heads, The Fastest Guitar in the West
1-sheets and loads more goofy stuff like that.
Younger people who appreciate this stuff are out there, they're just not the
mainstream drones who watch sludge like American Idol and/or play video
games non-stop.
Dave
www.posteropolis.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "jbirddouglass" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Where is the next generation of poster dealers?
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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