{"product_id":"yesterdays-stack-reading-the-comics-i-read-when-i-was-fifteen-paperback","title":"Yesterday's Stack: Reading the Comics I Read When I Was Fifteen - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid MacPherson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2019, I was going to turn fifty and had my midlife crisis by wallowing in the comic books I loved as a kid.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI started buying comic books again. Not new comics. Hell no. I was keyed into old comics.The shit I read when I was a kid. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I was a teenager in the 1980s, I spent all my money on comic books. I would go to the local shop on Saturdays and buy a large wedge of books and spend the next week reading them all. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI loved all of them, but would they all stand up?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat's when I had the notion. II would figure out all the comics I read for one month when I was fifteen, read them again and write about them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI picked the comics published in July of 1985. No reason. I just picked it. I went through lists online and was able to come up with 35 comics I pretty much was sure I bought and read that month.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don't own my old comics so I had to go about getting them again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen I began to write this with the plan of finishing it by October, 2019, when I turned fifty. That didn't happen. I didn't finish this until November.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I was done with this, I worked on the structure and how I wanted it to be and was not happy. So I put it away with the idea that I would look at it in a few months and then get it out and published. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut then March 2020 happened, and the world shut down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI forgot about this project. This was something from the before time and it was not part of my thoughts at all. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA few months ago, I recalled I wrote this and decided to see what I could do with it. I had written a very long introduction and several lengthy side essays. I cut all that and just kept the parts where I went through the old comics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a love letter to being a kid who was hyper focused on one thing. It is also a chance to think about how we change. How we stay the same. What we remember and what we were wise to forget.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI am happy to share this with you. I am now 55 and still read old comics. Not as quickly as I used to. The writing in comics and my old eyes are in conflict. Ah well. I still dig it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 148\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 02, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52690927223091,"sku":"9798227503558","price":25.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/b0MAniJIdv9798227503558.webp?v=1763020336","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/yesterdays-stack-reading-the-comics-i-read-when-i-was-fifteen-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}