3/11/2023 0 Comments Cincinnati comic expo 2015He was just starting out, he had never done a convention. And we ended up chatting like schoolgirls until the wee hours of the morning. It was around 2 o’clock in the morning, and I sent him a message saying that this was the coolest thing. I thought that it was the greatest thing that I had ever seen. It was a little Punisher, holding a slingshot and tossing a rock up in the air. And so back in November, he had posted to Facebook. How did you hook up with him?ĭM: So, Jason is a great guy, and a really good friend of mine. NG: I see that the packaging art was done by Jason Meents. It is a lot of fun doing shows, and seeing people’s reactions when you show them how it works. After I explain all this, people want, like, 20 of them. And people ask “So you don’t have to fold back staples, or go to Michael’s (I hear about Michael’s a lot), so I don’t have to go to Michael’s and pay $100?”īut I tell them “ All you have to do is slide your comic book inside, and you are done.” And it is super easy to change the comic book out. And you can see their eyes light up at the simplicity. When we do shows, and people come up to look at the frames, I just slide the top loader out and hand them both pieces. NG: Have your customers had a positive reaction to the new design?ĭM: Oh, absolutely. But I guess that is the difference between a 12 year old kid and a 37 year old collector. These days, if you pay $65 for a book, you put it in a bag & board and top loader, or get it graded and never touch it. I remember laying in my bunk bed, rolling the cover back as I flipped through the pages. And I thought that this sucked, you know? I had to pay that much just to read it. And I remember that I was about 12 years old when I paid $65 for it. I remember that the art really caught my eye when Spider-Man #300 came out. I remember when I first started reading comics, back in the eighties, I was really into Spider-Man with Carnage and Venom. My love comes purely from being a collector. I never worked in a comic shop or anything. NG: Had you ever worked in comics before, even at a comic shop? Or was Comic Book Displays your first foray into the comic industry?ĭM: Nope. And everything just falls apart from those seems. The corners are so delicate, because they have usually been stapled together. That was important to me because I have had so many frames fall off the wall. So if it ever did manage to fall off of the wall it should never break. A blade comes down and cuts it all out, routers it out. So we take a sheet of wood (we use MDF) and bolt it down to the machine. NG: How are your frames made? Are they one solid piece of wood?ĭM: I have them machine cut. But now we are making about 15,000 a week. Three and a half years ago, we started making just 100 frames every 2 months. I was just making them for myself, in the beginning, but then a lot of people wanted them. And I knew that I could come up with something way better than that. And if they fell and hit the ground, it could slice your art right open. The edge would crack, or the glass would break. I would always buy these frames, but they were (for lack of a better word) garbage. But when I started collecting art, I wanted a way to display it. Now I own maybe 150 comics, but I have an ungodly amount of art. And then I started meeting a lot of artists. At that time, I owned close to 80,000 comics. And you could preserve your comic, that art, so that it never got ruined. So, I started out making frames for just graded comic books, because I thought that CGC was just the bee’s knees. No matter what it looks like, you have that persons interpretation of that character. I love what people can create when they place a pencil to a piece of paper. I started it because I am an avid collector of art. Neil Greenaway: Why did you start Comic Book Displays?ĭave Music: I love that question. After acquiring a few of his (quite frankly, brilliant) frames for myself in Phoenix, I wanted to talk to Dave and see where the idea for his frames had come from, and what we might see next. As an avid comic collector (and shameless show-off), it did not take long for me to hear about his website. Dave Music owns and operates, a company that makes frames designed specifically for comic books.
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