Today we're looking at the collection of Rick Lacy, who with Phillip Gelatt is the co-creator of the Oni Press series Labor Days.

Before we begin, however, let me do my usual plug and encourage -- nay, implore -- you to send your collection pics to me at cmautnerATcomcastDOTnet. The Shelf Porn well seems to be drying up very rapidly and may hit bottom soon unless a few brave souls out there opt to contribute.

But enough with the sob story. Let's check out Rick's shelves:

I've just moved into a new apt so a lot of things are still in boxes and beg to be shelved. The rest is stacked on my drift wood cabinet, adorned with my Venture Bros. poster trophy for working on two seasons at the time. Most of my comic collection nowadays seems to be made up of Oni press comics, the publisher that puts out my OGN, Labor Days.

Here I was at Shelf Porn Central, thinking "you know, we haven't had a big manga-themed post in a long while," when who should appear in my in box but one Emily Snodgrass, with a manga collection to beat the band.

Remember though, you don't have to be an uber-collector to submit your pics to Self Porn. Large or small we'll gladly accept and and all submissions. Just send photos and commentary to cmautnerATcomcastDOTnet and we'll take care of the rest.

And now heeeere's Emily ....

Right now my collection is almost 3800 books, mostly in Japanese. I don't have much room in my apartment, so my organization system is somewhat sketchy. Almost all of it is Shoujo (for girls) manga.

As it stands, I have everything roughly organized by publisher or imprint.

In this photo are my two bookcases that contain most of my series that are published by Shogakukan under their Flower Comics label. Flower Comics is by far the imprint I buy the most series from. And, er, not because they publish a lot of smutty shoujo manga. Really! Ahem.

Within each publisher, I made a half-hearted attempt to group things by author but this never lasts long. When I get new books, I tend to just pile them up in the general shelf and do a more thorough organization maybe twice a year. On top of most of my bookcases are stacks of weekly or monthly manga magazines that most series are serialized in before they are published as a collected volume. I buy these magazines individually, for the most part, but I have had subscriptions at one time as well. I really should get rid of these things, as they take up tons of room, but I had a hard time letting go because they have a lot of pretty color pages,

This bookcase contains a combination of things. Most of it is my small yaoi/boys love manga collection. I like Boys Love manga, but I don't buy as much of it as it is more expensive, and, well, I'm cheap I also have an even smaller collection of English translated manga here as well. Finally, on the top shelf, are some comics published under the Asuka Comics imprint from Kadokawa. These are a lot of fantasy/action series. Down on the floor is a framed animation cel of Tsukushi from the Hana Yori Dango anime. Part of my plushie collection lurks up on top of the bookcase.

This bookcase is filled mostly with books published by Shueisha under their Margaret Comics imprint. I don't buy as many Shueisha titles, but when I do, it usually ends up being a very long series. Included here are two of my favorites: Hana Yori Dango (37 volumes) and Itazura na Kiss (23 volumes). There are more anime plushies up on top. On the very bottom shelf, I have set up a space devoted to books by a single author, Miwa Sakai. She publishes works through a bunch of publishers, and I didn't want to spread her books out across the other bookcases.

Here is more Shueisha stuff, this time their Ribon Mascot Comics imprint, which is for younger readers. Also included here are books from Hakusensha's Hana to Yume imprint. Hana to Yume published a lot of series that are being released in English here, including Otomen, Maid Sama, and KareKano.

This bookcase is reserved for my over-sized manga and my shounen and seinen stuff. Finally, some more manly manga. These shelves contain series like GTO, Rurouni Kenshin, and other series originally published through Shounen Jump or Shounen Sunday comics. I don't collect as much shounen manga, because it always ends up so popular and gets animated and licensed anyway, I don't feel as great a need to follow the Japanese versions.

This is an overflow area, for stuff that doesn't fit with the other publishers, or into the other bookcases. These are mostly older series, awesome 70's shoujo manga where everyone has ringlets and huge eyes filled with stars.Lots of wide-eyes orphans searching for their parents or sparkly-eyed teens enduring brutal training in various sports (ballet, figure skating, volleyball, tennis, etc.) I love 70's shoujo manga.

Here are some more "phonebook" manga magazines, along with some smaller reprinted versions of older series. In particular, I have some reprints of the Hana Yori Dango manga that came out when the TV drama first started airing.

A closeup of my small anime/manga plushie collection. DangerMouse is hanging out with them!

And that's it! I hope I won't have to start selling the collection!

Is it time for Shelf Porn once again? You bet your sweet bippy it is! And we've got a heck of a collection to share with you this week, from Caren Pilgrim, who runs the Peanuts Collectibles Web site. As you might imagine, she has quite the Peanuts-inspired collection herself.

Upon coming across her Web site, I emailed Caren and asked if she would be willing to share some photos of her collection with Robot 6 readers. Here's what she sent in ...

The "Snoopy Room" also serves as the guest room. Just wake up and feel like a kid again! I keep the room closed since I hate the inevitable dust. Altogether, I have at least 11,000 unique items, give or take. Almost 8,000 of them are cataloged on my website, CollectPeanuts.com. The Snoopy room is rotated on a yearly basis and is always in a state of continuous accumulation.

Sit down at the vintage child-size chrome table and have a tea party with Snoopy. I'm just glad I never have to pick up my toys again!

From this vantage, we can sorta see the toy box shaped like Snoopy's Doghouse full of plush Snoopys and Belles. Also, I have a Snoopy Splash n' Play toy, for hooking up to a hose in the summer and running through its random jets of cold water. A Snoopy Phone is in the top corner with a matching Snoopy Phone bulletin board.

This bookcase feature some of my favorite Asian collectibles and other American favorites. The bottom shelf has a Snoopy Speedway. It's battery operated and brings the cars back up to the top so they can race again and again without human intervention.

On the top shelf, I have a Snoopy Timex Watch display, a Japanese Diet Pepsi Aluminum bottle and an Uncle Sam Snoopy Bank. Below, are some of my Hallmark Greeting Books from the 1970's filled with quick bits of wisdom from the Peanuts Gang and used as greeting cards. The taller books on the far left are pop-up books from Hallmark in the 1970's.

A few of my Peanuts Anniversary books and a Schulz biography mixed with a McCoy Doghouse Cookie Jar, a 1958 Linus Hungerford Doll, and a couple Anri Wooden music boxes, also featuring Linus.

This shelf holds the earliest paperback collections of Peanuts comic strips published by Holt, Reinhart & Winston. Many of them first or early editions with a few French and Spanish version too! A They are fiercely guarded by Samurai Snoopy. Snoopy-in-the-box is always ready to spring into action.

Along with some Asian Snoopy figurines are gift books published by Harper Collins from the 1990's.

Our next bookcase, containing many treasures, and not just Peanuts. I absolutely love the Peanuts growing chart next to it. There aren't many collectibles with Vulture Snoopy on them. I'm not sure if I want to grow that tall if there's a vulture waiting for me!

The top shelf contains some newer Peanuts strip collections on the left, and non-Peanuts Schulz works on the right. The orange doghouse is a music box/bank that plays music while Snoopy dances, but only if you put money in!

Lucy dominates this shelf of Determined gift books such as the perennial favorite, Happiness is a Warm Puppy. Snoopy's garage embodies one of those toys I never got as a kid. Nothing like ramps for your die-cast cars!

The Snoopy Flying Ace Mattel Skeddidler and Red Baron music box set the scene for one of my most prized possessions: film from Snoopy Come Home. The box contains an alternate opening title sequence, scenes cut from a foreign version, negatives and storyboard animations. Beside the film are TV special and movie based books.

I always get a kick out of these Snoopy fast food banks! Nothing like dog hair on your hot dog! Also, I have some later Peanuts strip compilation books, both American and foreign. The Anri music box with Schroeder on his piano is also a treat!

My Grandfather's copy of The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics is the most noteworthy item here. It was one of the factors that started me on this tailspin of comic strip love. When I was bored at their house, it time drag out the gigantic book of comic strips. Little Nemo was always a treat, even if I couldn't read. Ahhh... memories!

Also in residence, Bloom County, Robotman, Pogo and Bizarro. I pick up what I can when there are cheap sales at the local Half-Price Books store. There's more non-Peanuts books where these came from. It's just a matter of making them disappear from my parent's house.

When you have this many Snoopys, collector guides are a must. My most dog-earred is Peanuts Home Collection. The binders are filled with trading cards, comic books, greeting cards, magazine ads and even pogs!

Video cabinets are perfect for those paperback books from Fawcett Crest. My dad had about a dozen of them from his childhood that he passed on to me. He got me started, it's all his fault. There's nothing he can do about it. If he only knew what he was getting himself into!

This corner of the room has World Tour Snoopy Happy Meal Toys from Asia in the doghouse case, a 1974 calendar with a hilarious image, a Worlds of Wonder Talking Snoopy store display and Groucho Marx, of all people. Hear Snoopy talk on Youtube!

Warning! This room is protected by an attack Border Collie!

It's Wednesday, and you know what that means. Other than New Comics Day I mean.

That's right, it's time for Send Us Your Shelf Porn, where collectors get to spill their guts, figuratively, at least. Our guest this week is Karl Heitmueller, a cartoonist/artist/writer and bartender who currently resides in Jersey City, NJ, though he originally used to manage a record store in my neck of the woods and I'd bug the heck out of him by frequently browsing in the place and not buying anything. I'll make it up to him today by recommending you check out some of the comics on his Web site and pick up a copy of the delightful The Retail Adventures of Kalli and Rex.

And with that I'll let Karl take over now. Click on the link to get started on the tour.

I'm a 44 year old fan boy whose collecting has waxed and waned over the years. These days, I barely buy any new comics, focusing on reacquiring some Silver and Bronze era books I got rid of years ago. I still buy some collected editions, but my primary collecting focus these days is action figures and Superman memorabilia.

Some bio background, I'm a freelance writer / artist / cartoonist and also a bartender (gotta pay the bills somehow) living in Jersey City NJ. I've done work for DC's Paradox Imprint, Comic Book Artist Magazine, Geek Monthly and MTV.com. My own comic strips include THE RETAIL ADVENTURES OF KALLI & REX (published by Warner Bros. Records in their monthly faux-zine DIRT in the 1990s), AKA THUNDERSTORM and YOU DON'T LIKE ANYTHING!

My apartment is a large loft, which is great, but has no rooms in which to hide a collection of anything, so my girlfriend is more than accommodating in allowing my STUFF to dominate the apartment. The main capitulation I've made is that for the first time in my life, my comic books are housed in comic boxes rather than on shelves. However, these sets of shelves contain graphic novels, Superman and Batman related books, oversize comics and trade paperbacks.....

Where she really gets props is in allowing me let the bulk (but not all) of my action figure collection dominate the living room area of the loft. 23 feet of shelving houses over 400 different figures (with other scattered throughout the apartment)

... and a wider shot of the shelves and the drawing area of the apartment.

This is a long view of the wall ... most of it, anyway.

The Superman section is somewhat divided into categories: From left: Mullet Superman, Black Suit Superman, Alternate Supermen ...

Some miscellaneous Supermen round out the first shelf ...

Superman shelf 2 starts with a jumble of my favorite figures (including the ultra rare pressed wood Superman ashtray figure from the 40s that should probably be in a safety deposit box or at least behind glass rather than precariously settled on the edge of a shelf)....

... then we have some Superman Breaking Chains figures followed by Golden Age Superman figures....

Shelf 3 has some Daily Planer Supermen ...

... followed by some Clark Kents and more miscellaneous Supermen.

Flying Supermen hang under the shelf containing the Superman Family and Superman villains ...

Supergirl, Superboy, Jimmy, Perry, Lois and Jor-El ...

A plethora of Lex Luthors ...

Brainiac, Parasite, Bizarro, Darkseid and a few others ...

To the right of the Superman shelves, there's a shelf that holds a few specific favorite characters: Captain Marvel ...

Dr. Fate ...

Spider-Man (proving I'm not only a DC fan) ...

... and my girlfriend's STAR TREK figures (actually, one of these is mine... the first movie's Spock figure).

On the other end of the shelves sit Wonder Woman ...

Green Lantern and the Flash....

and bunch of Batmen....

All of my comic book-related DVDs are on the top of the DVD shelf behind the couch (for easiest access, of course).

I'm also a sucker for the Creature from the Black Lagoon ...

... and I kneel at the altar of Alfred Hitchcock.

And finally, the Schulz collection (I'm some years behind on the Complete Books).

So, that's most of it. There are boxes full of other stuff (puzzles, games, magazines, toys and many more action figures) placed throughout the apartment (as well as the odd figure here and there), but that's the meat of the stew.

Welcome once again to Send Us Your Shelf Porn, the only place where on the Internet where the term "porn" suggests something non-sexual and PG-rated. We think. For now.

Poor planning on my part meant I almost resorted to linkblogging (brrr) instead of highlighting some brave soul's collection. Thankfully, mighty comics scholar and critic Michael Rhode came to save the day. For those who don't know, Rhode runs the ComicsDC blog, which covers comic-related events in and around our nation's capital. He's also co-author of the Comics Research Bibliography, the exhibition and media reviews editor for the International Journal of Comic Art, and the editor of the book Harvey Pekar: Conversations, among other accolades.

But as nice as Mike's collection is, he can't keep Shelf Porn going on his lonesome. It takes the help of all of brave individuals like perhaps yourself, who aren't afraid to flaunt their comics collection in front of all who have Internet access and know about this site. Simply send me pics of your shelves to cmautnerATcomcastDOTnet and you, too, can be one of the proud and few.

And now, let's move on to Mike and his shelves:

Chris asked me to fill in with pretty short notice, so I'm just touching on three bookcases in my collection -- there are a lot more and perhaps I'll be another fill-in for him in the future. I grew up with Marvel's 1970s-era Dreaded Deadline Doom in which, all of a sudden, the story you were expecting wasn't there, and you were looking at some out-of-continuity comic, so I'm fine with that idea. I've got a pretty wide range of interests in comic art and have been collecting for a few years.

This is a bookshelf that was formerly sacrosanct as far as not having comics, but we all know how that goes...

The top shelf still has remnants of its former life -- some books I meant to read, some that have particular meaning (a great-uncle's union-forming activities in In Transit, my grandfather's copy of Lynd Ward's Frankenstein, a leather bound Louis L'Amour from my father) while others are books that either I or my wife wrote parts of. On this shelf I've got a 'complete edition' set of the Harvey Pekar: Conversations book I edited - a proof copy, a paperback and a hardcover. I had to trade with a reviewer to get the proof. Some Jim Ottaviani snuck in up there too. The Robin Hood is illustrated by Frank Godwin, who also did comic strips like Connie.

The second shelf has what went on it when I moved the previous books on dinosaurs into the garage. Of interest might be the Richard Thompson cards of an Obama caricature (available on Cafe Press). The book on the far left, with a black dustjacket is Bryant's Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Cartoonists and Caricaturists. This has basic biographical information on them -- we really need a similar work for the US. Next to that is Roger Langridge and Jason so this shelf dates from an Small Press Expo when I got some of these signed by them. The yellow spine is Michaelis' Schulz biography which anyone reading this column should have. Dark Horses' reprinting of Harvey Comics has been popular with my daughter so I made some space so she could return to these -- the Richie Rich volume seems to be missing though. The Schulz book, and Tomine's Shortcomings, and Diffee's The Rejection Collection point out a highlight in living in a city -- these were all signed when the authors came to the Politics and Prose Bookstore.

Postcards is done by Jason Rodriguez, a local comics writer, as is Mr. Big by Matt Dembicki a slim volume next to it. Barefoot Gen, the story of surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima never appeared completely in English until recently -- this is part of the set of eight books, I think. The Power of Angels is Herb Trimpe's story of being a minister in New York after 9-11, and the Chris Ware book was bought and signed when he spoke at the local Jewish center with Alison Bechdel and Lynda Barry. I love the fact that you can now get so many comics I only dreamed of as a kid, so that explains Jim Aparo's Phantom Stranger and the Marvel Masterworks Ant-Man/Giant Man. I've bought 98% of DC Archives and Marvel Masterworks because I never expected these to stay available for so long.

We cross the living room away from this shelf and go to the one that has the starting core of my collection, although it's now largely hidden by accretions.

Back before the current explosion of reprints and graphic novels, one collection came out a year. You can see the Origins of Marvel Comics by Stan Lee poking out -- that was the reprint book for the year. The others next to it -- Son of Origins, Superhero Women, Mysteries in Space (that one from DC) - are all similar collections. Also on this shelf are proto- or early graphic novels like Lee and Kirby's Silver Surfer or the 'computer-generated' Shatter. Comics that I really liked back in the day (and still do) such as V for Vendetta, O'Neil/Adams' Green Lantern, Claremont/Byrne's X-Men, Gaiman's Sandman and Moore's Swamp Thing fill the back row. Also on this shelf are signed copies of Don Rosa's excellent Scrooge McDuck collections, a few of my self-published projects, books by my friend Cul de Sac cartoonist Richard Thompson, a few knickknacks and a large collection of Rob Ullman's art, which he sells at cons. He used to illustrate Savage Love for the Washington City Paper, but there's a relatively tame coffee drinker showing (with a recent Chris Schweizer image tucked in front of it and behind the Iron Giant). Before we leave this shelf, on the top note All in Color for a Dime by Thompson and Lupoff and The Comic-Stripped American by Berger. Once upon a time, this was a significant part of the written history of comics.

I'm an editor of the International Journal of Comic Art, and these have largely taken over this shelf, blocking a set of Marvel Masterworks and some DC reprints especially of Gaiman's Sandman. The jewel cases are recordings of talks by cartoonists from Politics and Prose that they'll sell you. The mug is by the great Keith Knight.

This shelf takes us way back in time. Some of the earlier collections of comics are here - the 4-volume Disney set and Blackbeard's Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics in particular. Great stuff, as is the Monster Society of Evil collection of Fawcett's Captain Marvel on the far right. The Trigan Empire is a collection of a British strip -- you used to have to work to avoid tripping on it, but it's gotten rarer now, I guess. Empire next to it is an early Howard Chaykin / Samuel R. Delaney graphic novel. Asterix and Tintin are Franco-Belgian comics that everyone should read. There's some great strip reprints like McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland, Popeye and Tarzan. I'm glad to see all the current strip reprint projects because I couldn't afford to buy sets in the past, but I can now.

There's a British history book, 4th in from the left -- Denis Gifford was a great collector who did a lot of the early work on cataloguing British comics. This is more wide- ranging The International Book of Comics. When Gifford died a few years ago, his collection was dispersed at auction. The Pink Panther toy is from my grandmother's house -- I used to hide it around the living room on her whenever I visited. On the next shelf, you'll see a few things that won't appear in the next image as I cleaned them out of the way including the Bone stuffed toy, a Tom and Jerry Big Little Book and a bunch of DVDs of comics movies like Trudeau's Tanner on Tanner and the Italian Danger Diabolik.

Here's that shelf cleaned off -- lots of older material here too. On the left, behind a Gaston LeGaffe toy wrapped in a mattress that was made by a French friend, is Batman (that's an odd sentence). Batman always had a lot of books about him due to his mass media appearances. The Batman, Superman and Shazam collections came out in the 1970s and were great reading from the library. The three encyclopedias next to them for Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman were the source of a lot of amazement to a 10-year old. Some classic comic books, comic strips and cartoonists come next. Of note are The Incredible Hulk, one of those 'once a year' books but 3" taller just so it wouldn't fit with the others, Michael Kaluta's adaptation of Metropolis (with the stripes), Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein, the famed collector Art Wood's Great Cartoonists and their Art, and photocopies of hard to find stuff like Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent. You can see part of the bottom shelf although most of it is obscured with recent purchases waiting to be put away. There's Trudeau's fantastic Doonesbury, P. Craig Russell's adaptations, the pulp hero The Shadow, and a bunch of works by comics historian Maurice Horn including a volume of his World Encyclopedia of Comics.

It's a small house, and this bookcase is tucked at the end of the basement stairs. Of note on the top is a set of 'finger puppets' from Richard Thompson's Saturday feature 'Richards Poor Almanack' which only runs in the Washington Post. Some more signed books are Stephanie McMillan's As The World Burns, Ted Rall's 2024 and John Kovaleski's Bo Nanas - Monkey Meets World as well as some other books from SPX 2008. You'll notice a lot of toys and the like on shelves too - I love the creativity of merchandising. One of the first articles on comics I wrote was 'The Commercialization of Comics' (IJOCA 1:2, Fall 1999). In spite of the opinion of Bill Watterson, comics spun off all kinds of licensing since the 1890s - Geppi's Entertainment Museum in Baltimore is a great place to see that type of thing. There's a couple of toys from Ratatouille here too - I love about half of Pixar's output. And be sure to check out the New Yorker cover artist Bruce McCall's Marveltown.

I've fallen behind on my Complete Peanuts again, but here's the start of the set as well as Walt and Skeezix (aka Gasoline Alley) and Dick Tracy. Shannon Wheeler's lamented Postage Stamp Funnies from the Onion lurks under a gift Super Hero Kit. Above that we can see a mixture -- More Washingtoons by Mark Alan Stamaty, Jen Sorenson's Slowpoke, Ward Sutton, the Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig, Mutts' Patrick McDonell, political cartoonist Joel Pett, and as we move across the top piles, Edward Gorey and S. Gross, followed by a fantasy novel with a cover by Charles Vess, the Indian cartoonist RK Laxman, a Walt Kelly book, and under them, Mo Willem's travel cartoons, Alison Bechdel's awesome Fun Home, more Winsor McCay, more DC Archives, Lynn Johnston's For Better or For Worse, and some manga novels.

Two shelves, one of which has a bunch of comic book novels. I'm a sucker for these. Around 1977, Marvel came out with a set of them and I loved them (I was 12. What can I say?) so since then I've been collecting them. Walt Disney's Comics Digest used to be a reliable place to find great Carl Barks reprints. In the middle, near the Hellboy movie cup is minicomics from Ryan Claytor who does good autobiographical work. The bottom shelf has the authorized spiral-bound photocopy reprint of David Kunzle's amazing works on early comics, more Ted Rall, Charles Addams, a beer bottle labeled by Ralph Steadman, Brunetti's Graphic Fiction anthology, Preston's The Artist Within book of photographs, and the exhibit catalog of the arguable Masters of American Comics.

We wrap up with the reality of milk crates filled with con buys like Graphic Classics and Shakespeare comics ... and hey, Richard Sala and Matt Madden. There's Fantagraphics' Crumb book which is too big to store easily, the National Lampoon on French Comics, and a bunch of mystery magazines (although the New Yorker is recognizable) in both crates. Faced with Warman's Comic Book Field Guide (what is that?) and topped off with The Don Rosa Archives vol. II, Marvel Comics Guide to New York City and The Definitive Frazetta Reference because they all fit so well together.

Believe me, there's more... but that's it for today.

It's Wednesday, and you know what that means. Yes, it's Shelf Porn time once again! Our Guest this week is Mark Poulton, the VP of Operations at Arcana Comics, as well as the writer/co-creator of Koni Waves. Since  Waves takes place in Hawaii, Poulton decided to build a tiki bar in his basement to display his collectibles.

Before we get to Mark's collection, though, let me offer my regular reminder. Sure, you may be saying "My collection is nowhere near as awesome as the ones featured here. There's no way I should send my pics in." You know what I say to that negative thinking? Fiddlesticks! Send me photos of your collection, be it large or small to cmautnerATcomcastDOTnet and we'll post 'em with love no matter what.

Now, here's Mark to take us on a tour of his home ...

First off, I want to Chris Mautner for a great feature like Send Us Your Shelf Porn. I truly enjoy seeing how other people display their collectibles, not only for ideas on how to display my stuff, but just to see the cool things people collect. Recently, my wife and I finished our basement and my wife was kind of enough to let me make it my comic room. My goal was to create an environment to not only house my collectibles, but for me and my friends to hang out at after local cons or to discuss projects. Since my comic book, Koni Waves, takes place in Hawaii, my wife thought I should have my very own tiki bar! So grab a barstool and enjoy the tour…

First thing when you head down the stairs to the basement, you see some framed artwork as well as a Koni Waves collage a friend made for me.

The artwork on the left is a Koni pin-up from Mathew Tow and an Avengelyne vs. Koni Waves pin-up from myself. On your right are the covers to my creator-owned book Club Vampire by Mathew Tow, and the variant cover by myself. I’m really not a fan of my own artwork, but my Club Vampire variant (which is a homage to the Lost Boys movie poster) is one of my favorite things I’ve done.

Once you get to the bottom, you’ll see the lay of the land. The pool table came with the house so we decided to design the room around it. I’m not much of a pool shark, but my wife got me some Phillies/Mets pool balls for Christmas so the Phillies can beat up on the Mets all year round.

On the left hand side, I have a couple of movie posters and skateboard decks. I have the Lost Boys 2 movie poster signed by the entire cast. One of the perks of going to SDCC every year with Arcana is getting the chance to wander off for a couple hours for these signings.

Next is my Lost Boys skateboard deck. Mathew Tow, who is my co-creator on Club Vampire, was nice enough to do this skateboard deck for me at Wizard World Philadelphia a couple of years ago.

You then have my Punisher poster signed by Thomas Jane, as well as my Darkness skateboard deck which I got signed by Stjepan Sejic this year at the Arcana booth.

Further down the left wall, we have a limited Lost Boys movie poster which was created for a recent showing of the film in Texas. The theater had sold out of them, but I contacted the artist who created it and was fortunate enough to purchase one of the last ones.

Next is the original artwork to the cover of issue #4 of the Lost Boys comic book by Jonathan Wayshack. By now, I’m sure you can guess I’m a huge Lost Boys fan so I definitely had to have this when I saw it for sale.

On the wall nearest the steps, I have some of my baseball and wrestling memorabilia in an Ikea glass case I got off Craig’s List. Craig’s List is a great place to find shelving or cases for your stuff. I got 2 of those glass cases for $40. On the first two shelves, I have a bunch of George Brett baseball stuff as well as an autographed Joe Dimaggio baseball. Then the bottom 2 shelves have some Philadelphia Phillies and WWE collectibles.

Next we have my comic toys and collectibles. First are 2 CGC’d Koni Waves comics. I’m not big into getting my comics graded, but I just liked the cases they came in. I thought they made for easier display. I lucked out and found a surfboard style shelf at a boardwalk shop and thought it would go great with my tiki bar.

Beside the CGC’d comics is my case of Spider-man, who is probably my favorite comic book character. I have various busts and action figures. You’ll also notice a pair of Spider-man cowboy boots. My wife wanted to have a country western style wedding, so I had these boots made to wear with my tuxedo. I retired them after the reception.

The bookshelf holds a bunch of action figures (Awesome Toys, Misfits signed by the entire band, Power Rangers, and Kamen Rider), as well as some signed comics by Michael Turner, Rob Liefeld, and Tyrese. I have a little shrine to Youngblood and more Spider-Man toys. I also have all my Cable/Deadpool tpbs and Witchblade/Darkness tpbs on display, as well as some custom tpbs I had made. I’ve been going back and getting all of my Extreme Universe comics bound into Exteme Essential tpbs.

The right wall has prints and framed original artwork all related to Rob Liefeld. Rob is my favorite artist and the reason I wanted to get into comics in the first place. Now, I’m lucky enough to get to work on some of his characters including a new Avengelyne series.

First up, is a commission my wife surprised me with at SDCC in 2006. It was my first con as a pro, and my wife had Rob do this Bloodwulf commission for me.

Next is a print of the Avengelyne vs Koni Waves oneshot Arcana is releasing. It was done up like a vintage boxing poster.

Next to it is the original painting from the boxing poster. Koni Waves artist Stephen Sistilli gave it to me as a house warming present.

Then we have a parody of the boxing poster featuring teen versions of Avengelyne and Koni Waves. This was done for the upcoming Koni Waves teen spin-off, Koni Confidential.

Finally, we have a piece that means a lot to me. It’s from X-Force Vol. 2 #1. Rob gave me the page as a gift at NYCC ’07.

On the same wall, I have a case of signed baseball helmets including my favorite player, George Brett. Others are Don Mattingly, Scott Rolen, and Robin Yount. I have some signed wrestling pictures as well as another skateboard deck. This one was done by Ken Haeser and Buz Hasson from the Living Corpse. They did Koni Waves with Demonslayer and Avengelyne.

My spinning DVD rack holds some custom built DVD box sets I have including all of Kevin Smith’s films, Hellraiser, Halloween, Spider-man, and more.

Finally, the tiki bar. My father-in-law and I built this out of plywood. We then wrapped the exterior in bamboo. The top of the bar is made with floor panel, and then we did the bamboo trim around the edges. The chairs were bought at Target. Behind the bar I have a Mark Brooks X-Men print. I’m not a huge X-men fan, but I love Brooks’ artwork and I especially love that Deadpool is standing away from all of the other mutants in the print. I then have a couple of my more exclusive comics, Club Vampire sketch cover and Avengelyne vs. Koni Waves SDCC cover on display.

Off to the side, I have a print of Koni Waves with Flavor Flav and Chuck D of Public Enemy. It’s for an upcoming team-up. Surrounding it, I have different Koni Waves sketch cards by various artists. The upper right one is probably my favorite. It’s done by Todd Nauck.

Now, the coolest feature of the room is probably the comic closet. I built this (along with my father-in-law’s help) cedar closet to store my comic books. I store most of my comics in D-ring binders so to the left I have a couple bookcases.

To the right I keep stock of some Arcana books for con season.

I hung up some autographed horror posters, because this is the only place I could get away with displaying them. My wife thought they were too scary for the main room. I have a Freddy vs Jason poster signed by Robert Englund and Ken Kerziner, a Hellraiser poster signed by Doug Bradley, and Urban Legends 2 signed by the entire cast (Eva Mendes, Joey Lawrence, Anthony Anderson, etc.).

So that’s pretty much everything. I hope you enjoyed a tour of my comic tiki lounge!

Welcome to another edition of Send Us Your Shelf Porn. Our guest this week is Dan Royer, a graphic designer from Wilmington, Il., and one of the co-creators of From the Tomb, an online horror comics magazine.

Often with Shelf Porn, folks send in collections built around a certain theme or character. Dan's is unique in that it's the first I've seen to focus on Iceman from the X-Men. To read about his fascination with the character and see more photos from his collection, just click on the link below.

I fell in love with Iceman when I saw Uncanny X-men #281. It was the first comic I ever bought. Thank you Mr. Whilce Portacio. When I was around 10 years old I saw the original Toy Biz Iceman and went nuts at Wal-Mart to get my mom to buy it for me. Ever since then I have been hooked on buying the toys and what not. I currently am missing the bigger stuff like statues and busts. The one thing I am looking for above anything else is the Secret Wars Iceman that was a Europe only release.

Below is my wall featuring 43 Different Iceman toys. That does not include all items, just the toys.

The top row contains the small items: Heroclix, loose figures, minimates, Kubrick, and the Iceman copter. The 2nd row holds smaller toys: Superhero Squads, Iceman stickers, two Iceman pint slasses and the X-Men NES game. 3rd Row: All three Icemen from the X-men set (Regular, Bobby, and Ultimate), and the X-Men 2 Movie Iceman

4th Row: Iceman Covers (as seen in the pic above) the small cards are every cover Iceman has been the focal point on, Iceman buttons, and three Iceman covers CGC'd: Ultimate X-men 9, X-Facotr 64, Uncanny 422 Bottom Row: Large Toys and box sets (as seen at the very top photo): 2 Fire and Ice sets (one with Pyro one with Torch) Main ones are Ninja Iceman, and 2 Canadian variants with Iceman and Bishop and a 4 pack with Iceman, Apocalypse, Sinister and Weapon X.

Some close-up photos of the buttons and cards.

It's really hard to find info on this particular item. What I have been able to find is that these metal toys were prototypes that were shown at shows but never took off. It's the rarest piece in my collection.

I came across a bobble head at a garage sale and I am converting it into an Iceman bobble head.

I also collect New Orleans Saints Toys and Futurama toys, so this is the wall with them. My rarest thing here is the original Moore collectibles Fry.

A close-up shot of the Futurama toys.

My comic collection. Iceman-wise I have the two mini-series, Strange Tales #120, Amazing Spiderman #92, and many more that I think have significant for me, at least as far as the character is concerned.

It's Wednesday again and here we are for another edition of Send Us Your Shelf Porn. Our guest this week is Batman devotee Julian Smoger, who has accumulated quite the caped crusader collection and wanted to share some of his more interesting finds with Robot 6 readers.

Once again, let me encourage any and all of you who'd like to submit your collection to please do so. Just send any pictures and commentary to cmautnerATcomcastDOTnet and I'll try to get it up on the site in a few weeks time.

In the meantime, I'll hand the virtual mic over to Julian ...

I like Batman. I like Batman a lot. I like Batman so much that I plan on opening my own Batman museum one day. On top of the toy and doodad collection, I've accumulated a few thousand Batman only comic books.

These are my first Batman toys from when I was a kid in the early '80s. The SuperPowers toy is actually a replacement for the original, which I lost when I was young and cried for ever about. The bed comforter was used until I was in college or something ridiculous like that. The 2 Mego toys were bought for me by my parents when they went on a vacation (it's at the point now where, when on vacation, my mother just buys me Batman stuff from antique dealers).

This is probably one of my favorite pieces in my collection. My mom made this from scratch for Halloween when I was mad young. Notice the muscles sewn in to make my scrawny ass look beefy! Eventually, I want to get a maniquin and a plexiglass case to house it in, just like the Batcave!

The story behind this one is a bit funny. I was living in NY and saw the promotion. I did not, however, want Domino's. I just walked in and asked for the box, got odd looks from the staff, then demanded a box. Eventually, they just wanted to get rid of me, so now I have it!

This is a custom piece I had done at the famous Six Flags amusement park! Ha ha. I had originally gotten it for my Grandmother as a present but since she's moved, I've re-inherited it, which is ok with me!

I got this at NYCC2009. I had never really met any big names before, and as I was walking through the aisles, I saw a little unassuming old man at an empty table with a sign that just said "I created the Joker". I walked up and met Jerry Robinson, a very pleasant gentleman who signed this print for me. It was great to be able to meet a piece of history.

These pics are about 2 years old as I now live in a tiny apartment where I'm unable to set everything up. As you can see, my obsession runs deep. If Batman's on it, I'll buy it; spaghettios, shampoo, bubble bath. Since I've moved, I cataloged everything individually. If you want to see more (a LOT more), check out The Batman Museum.

Time once again for Send Us Your Shelf Porn, the only Internet blog post (that I know of) that lets you, the reader, be the nerd king (or queen, or regent) for a day. This week we're featuring the collection of Jeff Keller from New Berlin, Wisconsin, whose got quite the set-up in his basement.

Remember, Shelf Porn can only continue with your help. Got a collection you'd like to share? Let the world see it by emailing photos and commentary to me at cmautnerATcomcastDOTnet.

And how here's Jeff:

First of all, thank you for this great forum. I’ve always been curious how other people display their collections, and you have provided a chance for all of us to share our inner sanctums. I have collected comics for most of my life, and honored to open mine up to all. I hope you enjoy the tour, and I would like to hear what you think.

In my basement room, I wanted people to walk in and be able to peruse the various displays just as you would the aisles of your local comic shop. You’ll find a cross-section of old and new, with the emphasis on DC Comic characters (heavily Batman oriented) and related memorabilia. A large part of my collection is in trade paperbacks of comic strips, dating back to the early 70’s

Lots of comic strip trade paperbacks dating back to the early 70’s

The Overstreet Price Guides start at 1974!

Check out the McDonalds menu board (circa 1974) Quarter Pounder with Cheese for $1.00!

The metal “Best Comics Reading” DC Comics sign came from the spinner rack from the local drug store where I bought comics for 15 years as a kid.

This spinner rack contains one of every DC title from the “Go-Go Checks” era of 1966-67. After over 40 years of collecting, I am “specializing” a little. I am currently compiling a complete collection of every “Go-Go Checks” cover, and I am about 80% complete!

The lateral file cabinets provide a neater storage alternative from the traditional white boxes. Each cabinet holds about 2400 comics.

In addition to the Go-Go Checks, I have also compiled a complete collection of DC 100 Page issues, as well as all of the Bicentennial covers from 1976.

The Toy Corner. A mix of old and new.

Thanks!

Welcome once again to Send Us Your Shelf Porn. Our guest this week is Marc Mason, newly established PR guru for NBM and proprieter of the Comics Waiting Room Web site.

Remember, you too can be a featured Shelf Porn guest. All you need do is take some photos of your burgeoning comics collection and send them to me at cmautnerATcomcastDOTnet. Feel free to include as much or as little info about yourself and your collection as you like.

And now here's Marc ...

I enjoy this feature very much and thought I’d give it a shot. At this point in my life, I now have over 2000 graphic novels (not to mention plenty of regular comics). Thanks to being a reviewer, my shelves are overflowing! While plenty of these books weren’t review items, many were books I got in trade for comics I no longer wanted or needed. Not sure how this works, but I’ll try to hit some high points…

I don’t own too many action figures, but it just makes sense to have Steel guarding the S-Z shelf. Included here: all of the TRANSMETROPOLITAN, Y THE LAST MAN, STRANGERS IN PARADISE, and SHE-HULK volumes. This bookcase probably has more “mainstream” material than any of my others.

The front part of the alphabet for regular trade paperbacks. Things here include all of the JOHN BYRNE FF VISIONARIES, all the MADMAN trades, each of the volumes of FLIGHT… as you can see, I’m stacking right now because I have no room to add anything new. This problem is only growing as the months pass.

Hardcover land starts here. Plus, over-sized trades, some digest-sized collections and more. In the lower right, you’ll see a ton of minicomics as well. I also have all of the Minx line sitting here. And if that isn’t cool enough? How about statues of Merv Pumpkinhead and the Black Widow? I contain multitudes!

Top row, over-sized hardcovers. I’ll come back to those later. The regular shelves contain 6x9 and smaller books. This is easily the most eclectic bookcase in my collection. Lots of stuff from Oni, Fantagraphics, First Second, NBM, and Top Shelf to be found here. Bottom left you’ll see all the books I have from Lewis Trondheim’s DUNGEON series. I worship Trondheim. Massively. Upper right: statues of Spider Jerusalem (my personal hero) and Harley Quinn. Again- expecting consistency from me isn’t a good idea. J

Couple hundred manga volumes, anyone? Apparently I need to shelve that NOBLE CAUSES book- no idea why that’s sitting there.

The Marvel Essential is probably my favorite format running right now. Plus, it allows me to get the comics I had (and loved) as a kid back into my hands at a cheap price. Also living here: some of the COMPLETE PEANUTS volumes, as well as the complete BUFFY and ANGEL series on DVD.

I’m missing a couple of CEREBUS volumes. The guy I traded with to get 13, 15, and 16 didn’t have the others. Drat.

Top shelf here: the Grant Morrison NEW X-MEN omnibus hardcover. I am certain this is the heaviest book I own. Bright side: potential murder weapon (should I need one).

Back to the over-sized hardcovers. One of the things I love about comics (and my collection in turn) is the eclectic nature of what I enjoy. In a row here I have: the COMPLETE FAR SIDE, the ABSOLUTE edition of Warren Ellis’ AUTHORITY, Fantagraphics’ first POPEYE reprint, and a Chris Ware book. Fun!

Further down this shelf, THE PRO shares space with STRAY BULLETS, THE BOYS, COMIC BOOK TATTOO, and THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Anyone ever tells you that comics don’t have something for everyone, they’re lying. Or ignorant. Set ‘em straight!

A closer look at over-sized trades and the minicomics. Still waiting on one more volume of COMPLETE OMAHA. As for minicomics… they rock. The purest form of comics out there. Anyone can fold a piece of paper in half, write and doodle, hit Kinkos and put their work in front of people. How can you not love that? Even when they suck, you have to respect the effort.

Over-sized manga and the smaller omnibus format Dark Horse and IDW are using. Have I mentioned how much I love omnibus-type books?

Smaller hardcovers. The Ted McKeever books from Image came out really nicely.

So yeah, I have a lot of graphic novels. And running Comics Waiting Room, along with being the p.r. guy for NBM Publishing, means the collection is only going to grow larger. But I don’t see it as a burden- I’m really fortunate to have been able to read and own so many wonderful books. I wish the same for everybody out there reading!