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Autographed (and personalized) copy of Collect All 21! Memoirs of a Star Wars Geek
- Item Number
- 154
- Estimated Value
- 25 USD
- Sold
- 25 USD to jabetts
- Number of Bids
- 5 - Bid History
Item Description
When the original Star Wars hit theaters in May 1977, John Booth was six years old. Edited by Adam Besenyodi, former PopMatters editor and author of Deus ex Comica: The Rebirth of a Comic Book Fan,, Collect All 21! also features a striking throwback cover by artist and author Kirk Demarais (Life of the Party: A Visual History of the S.S. Adams Company) and a foreword by “Darths and Droids” and “Irregular Webcomic” creator and astrophysics Ph.D. David Morgan-Mar. The book has reached readers in ten countries and garnered positive feedback from buyers via both Amazon.com and Lulu.com.
John Booth is a northeast Ohio writer and graduate of Bowling Green State University. His writing has been honored by the Associated Press Society of Ohio,The Press Club of Cleveland, and the Society of Professional Journalists. He can be found online at http://johnbooth.wordpress.com or reached at booth@fieldsedge.com or 330-498-0928.
Thirty years later, the award-winning Ohio journalist and writer celebrated the anniversary of the film's release with a series of essays and a WKSU-FM affiliate commentary about growing up in the age of George Lucas' original space trilogy. Those essays grew into a year-long project culminating in the publication of the book Collect All 21! Memoirs of a Star Wars Geek: The First 30 Years.
The 1970s and '80s are revisited, to be sure, from those early years of action figures and playground battles, through the Golden Age of The Empire Strikes Back and the goosebump thrill of seeing Return of the Jedi as a 12-year-old on opening night. But Collect All 21! also moves beyond that decade and straight nostalgia to look at how the Star Wars saga and the author's fandom evolved through the lean years when the movies were far from the mainstream consciousness, through his own difficult personal times in the early 1990s, and on into the Special Editions and the Prequel Era, when he experienced the films as a parent and shared them with his daughter.
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