My name is Chris. I do comics.
Welcome back to Ad Nauseam! Where I crack open the capitalistic commercialized coffin of advertising and you stand beside me stake in hand for some strange reason! It’s so close to Halloween night. The sidewalks are sprawled with the warm satisfying crunch of fallen leaves. The grinning pumpkins that align your neighborhood porches are beginning …
There was a time—before algorithms, pop-ups, and corporations selling your private data—when advertising lived peacefully inside comic books, wedged between superheroes and dubious moral lessons. These ads promised you could become wildly popular, inhale the newest sugary snack trash, or become the proud owner of a sea-monkey empire, all for a money order and handwritten …
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are no stranger to crossovers in the comic world. Even back in their Mirage days they were crossing over with the likes of Cerebus the Aardvark, Usagi Yojimbo, and even the Flaming Carrot. Recently they’ve shared adventures with the Ghostbusters, Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, and a whole multi-dimensional trilogy with Batman and company. But there are appearances so brief that …
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Welcome back to another dated and musty edition of Ad Nauseam! The only series of articles on the internet dedicated to digging through comic book advertisements for the sole purpose of directionless rambling disguised as “informative” nostalgia. It’s less an informative article and more of something you’d find in a digital clearance bin next to …
Welcome back to Ad Nauseam, where I once again dig through the glittery landfill of comic book advertisements like an archaeologist who majored in terrible decisions. If you’ve ever wondered what life was like before ad targeting —don’t worry, comic books already had you covered with full-page pitches for romance novels, forgotten sitcoms, and products …
