The Story of Western Publishing - Tom Ray's Pop-Culture Roadshow March 26, 2020

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Okay! This is another one of my pop culture roadshow things where I look at some of the toys and collectibles that I have and try to learn a little something about them.

This one actually connects to a lot of the previous ones that I've done with a common element. What I noticed was, I have a lot of books I have a lot of puzzles I have a lot of games and one thing keeps popping up on them and it's this Whitman publishing company Racine, Wisconsin.

Items in this show

Big Little Books, Barney Baxter & Jack Armstrong

image of 2 vintage books on white background

Walt Disney Flip-it Book

image of vintage paperback on white background

Whitman Huey Dewey & Louie round puzzle

image of orange color vintage puzzle box on white background

Donkey Party Game

image of vintage game box on white background

1970 Betty Crocker Recipe Card Box

image of big green box with recipes in them

Dell Comics Daffy Duck

image of vintage comic book with drawing on white background

Krazy Ikes

image of vintage game in cardboard tube and plastic pieces

Uninspired.

I don't know. Maybe it's silly. I haven't edited it yet.

Exhaust.

When I got back in my car later it still smelled.

Just a glitch.

I guess I'm happy it's going to be fine. Then This Happened... A diary about breast cancer A comic diary about our lives after my wife found out she had breast cancer. Read it on Amazon Get the ebook

Creating a cover for my webcomic books

Creating my webcomic book cover for print on Amazon KDP I have all the pages set up for the book and ready to go and then at the end it's like "oh right I still need to create the cover for the book!" I don't know why but this part always makes me the most anxious. Maybe it's because it's the way the book is going to be represented? It's so weird, in my books I'm telling very personal things in my webcomics themselves but the cover is the thing that is making me anxious. I mean this is gonna be what I show when I say to people, hey I created this book you should check it out! Maybe I'm being silly I don't know? ( Related post: Using Google Photos and Google Docs To Make My Webcomic Book ) Using other books as references for the cover What I did to kind of help me with this is I would reference these old comic strip books that I have. I like the styles of these books and I collect them. Collection of old comic strip paperback pocket books I h...

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