I'm torn between selling off most of collection with the proceeds going to the CDBLDF or donating it to my alma mater. My main concern with the latter is that it won't do any good there, since comics aren't exactly part of the curriculm there.

Either way, my Grant Morrison comics are going with me when I'm cremated.
Joe Gualtieri | Email | 10.20.05 - 12:18 am | #

I think your corpse should be launched into space with them, Viking Prince-style. When aliens come across the ship two billion years from now, your SWAMP THINGs may be all that's left of our once-flourishing civilization.
Sarah | Email | 10.20.05 - 12:46 am | #

well think on the brightside Mike, i've quit smoking... plus I'm still like 20 years younger than you.
kid chris | Email | Homepage | 10.20.05 - 1:41 am | #

Jee-zus. Now I know why they say Dorian is the cheery one.
M. A. Masterson | Email | Homepage | 10.20.05 - 4:27 am | #

Imagine, if you put them in your tomb with you, you could be the tuth-ank-amon of some future empire, your vast comic hoard the greatest treasure to have been unearthed from exotic prehistoric America!
Martin Wisse | Email | Homepage | 10.20.05 - 5:55 am | #

"...and everywhere, the glint of Golden Age..."
Dave Lartigue | Email | Homepage | 10.20.05 - 6:04 am | #

I've told my wife that, should I kick the bucket, she should donate my collection to OSU's comic book collection. Most of my collection is pretty cheap (mainly 80s and up, with only a few boxes of the older stuff.. and I'm not a stickler for mylar and backing boards), but if she could donate the books and take a tax write-off for the books based on Overstreet she should do pretty well. Sad that its been discussed..
Pope Impious XXIII | Email | Homepage | 10.20.05 - 6:07 am | #

Bowling Green State University in Ohio has one of the largest "pop culture" libraries in the country. They have a large collection of comics that are kept in good condition for "research" purposes.

If my eventual kids don't want my comics, I've told my wife to donate the whole thing to them. They can keep the ones that they need and sell the rest off to help fund the library.
Jer | Email | 10.20.05 - 6:20 am | #

I volunteer to be your heir Mike.
Josh | Email | Homepage | 10.20.05 - 8:08 am | #

Don't worry, Mike. I will ensure that your collection put on display in bulletproof, hermetically sealed boxes all over the great gold-and-jewel encrusted temple we intend to lay your lucite encased corpse to rest in. Yes, that should mollify the masses nicely. Excellent.

--m4
mojo_iv | Email | 10.20.05 - 9:25 am | #

I vote for the "launching into space" route, so eventually all comics will become the basis of some future civilization like in "A Piece of the Action" on Star Trek. (The one where everybody's a gangster.)

One could do worse than base society on New Gods.
DougBot | Homepage | 10.20.05 - 9:40 am | #

Yeah that launching into space thing sounds like a good idea. All the early image comics should be launched into the sun though.
Shane | Email | Homepage | 10.20.05 - 10:26 am | #

You just had to take the "comic blogging is dead" discussion a little too far, didn't you?
Ian Brill | Email | Homepage | 10.20.05 - 10:43 am | #

I always thought about leaving them to my kids, kind of a passed through the generations sort of a thing. First I need to kidnap some kids.

My main source of comics-related death-despair is that after I'm worm meat, they'll still be publishing comic books (maybe) and I'll be missing them. I think as a tribute to me all major publishers should wrap up ongoing storylines and end their comics when my health begins to take a turn for the worse.
David Cutler | Email | 10.20.05 - 11:09 am | #

My comics are going to the collection at Bowling Green. It's in my will, for real.
elgoose | 10.20.05 - 11:13 am | #

It's a catch-22 Mike.

If you decide to start giving them away as presents, folks will start to think you're gonna off-yourself.


If you don't give them away eventually they'll become tinder for a house fire that will kill you....or you'll find youself trapped under 12 long boxes after an earthquake, and for two weeks the only thing you'll have to read is the complete collection of Marvel's 3 issue A-Team miniseries.

I pity the fool.
Chris Brown | Email | Homepage | 10.20.05 - 11:28 am | #

Ha. You've seen the emptiness that's at the heart of consumerism. Become a Buddhist; start along the Noble Eight Fold Path.
Andrew Davison | Email | Homepage | 10.20.05 - 6:53 pm | #

You MUST have kids Mike. It's the only way to insure grandchildren who *will* appreciate your comics. Either that or you must have nieces and nephews and begin grooming them young.

Alternately, you can one day bury your comics all over the world and then leave map filled with vague and mysterious clues as to their whereabouts.
Evilbeard | 10.21.05 - 12:21 am | #

Reversing Mark Gruenwald's will, I want my comics to be liquified and then injected straight into my body instead of embalming fluid.
John DiBello | Email | Homepage | 10.21.05 - 3:45 am | #

"All the early image comics should be launched into the sun though."

Why do you hate the sun?
Bob | 10.21.05 - 6:51 am | #