Tag Sales and Free Comic Book Day
I’m not one for bargain hunting, just don’t generally have the patience for it honestly, but since moving to Akron, Ohio I’ve been hitting up the tag (estate) sales every weekend in the hopes of finding some cheap dressers (and out of sheer curiosity of the “scene”).
Tristan’s mom Sue is into them in a big way and has been driving us around with Lee. So today she took us to one out in Kent. Kent seems like kind of a cool little college town, by the way. Anyway, I hadn’t yet found anything that’s caught my eye, but today I found this cool oxblood-colored, leather-worked journal cover, which the sales people stupidly priced directly on its painted cover. I hope to find something to touch it up with and then will probably end up giving it as a gift, since my journal-writing days are kind of a distant memory.
Today was also national free comic book day, so I eagerly stopped in at JC Comics & Cards in Cuyahoga Falls to see what I could find. As an avid collector as a kid, it’s always fun to check in once and awhile and see what’s up. So there wasn’t much inspiring in the free section but I did find a copy of Clive Barker’s “The Great and Secret Show”, but only #5. This story is an all-time favorite of mine, so it’s still just cool to see some graphics for it. Here’s a snapshot of the cover:
Check out what appears to be an original cover here on Clive’s site.