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Scarecrow Video’s ‘VHS Art New Wave’ Exhibition Revives Video Store Weirdness
Scarecrow Video’s ‘VHS Art New Wave’ Exhibition Revives Video Store Weirdness
Scarecrow Video’s ‘VHS Art New Wave’ Exhibition Revives Video Store Weirdness
Long-time ComicsAlliance readers will already know that around here, we're kind of obsessed with VHS box art -- and by "we," I mostly mean me. Fortunately, I'm not the only one: Seattle's Scarecrow Video, one of the largest independent video stores left in America, is celebrating the fine art of the VHS box with their VHS Art New Wave exhibition, in which cartoonists draw new boxes for
Rickey Purdin’s ‘VHS Notebook’ Lovingly Profiles Your Favorite Crazy Movies
Rickey Purdin’s ‘VHS Notebook’ Lovingly Profiles Your Favorite Crazy Movies
Rickey Purdin’s ‘VHS Notebook’ Lovingly Profiles Your Favorite Crazy Movies
When Rickey Purdin isn't busy working as an assistant editor at DC Comics, he turns his attention to movies - specifically some of his favorite flicks from the bygone era of VHS tapes that shaped so many of our childhoods. At his VHS Notebook Tumblr, the cartoonist celebrates movies that make him happy by drawing their most radical characters, writing down what he calls "goofy notes" an
Twenty-Five Terrifyingly Awesome And Horrifyingly Awful VHS Horror Covers
Twenty-Five Terrifyingly Awesome And Horrifyingly Awful VHS Horror Covers
Twenty-Five Terrifyingly Awesome And Horrifyingly Awful VHS Horror Covers
I think we can all agree that for all of its benefits, PhotoShop pretty much ruined the movie poster industry -- and nobody was hit harder than horror movies. Maybe it's just that I'm old enough to have memories of being absolutely terrified of an aisle at my local video store, but I'm continually fascinated by the awesomely terrible art that used to adorn VHS boxes...
The 30 Most Amazingly Terrible VHS Boxes of All Time
The 30 Most Amazingly Terrible VHS Boxes of All Time
The 30 Most Amazingly Terrible VHS Boxes of All Time
I hope you're ready to see the greatest thing you'll see today this week this year in your entire life. This amazing picture of a bootleg RoboCop choking out a vampire while blowing up pretty much everything except a helicopter is the artifact of a bygone age: that dim and distant time when VHS box art roamed the Earth...