Comments on: Shelf Pictures: Carlson Comic Library

By: Westfield Comics Blog » KC COLUMN: Panapictagraphist

Westfield Comics Blog » KC COLUMN: Panapictagraphist — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:20:31 +0000

[...] collections live — as well as just a fraction of Johanna’s manga collection. (Some pictures here.) Two large bookcases are pretty much filled with Marvel Masterworks and DC Archives and related [...]

By: Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment » Send us your shelf porn!

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:53:03 +0000

[...] on the Internet, Johanna Draper Carlson was inspired enough to give a quick tour of her shelf situation: From the top, that’s the Justice [...]

By: Tammy

Tammy — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:37:35 +0000

I don’t think you guys have enough comics…there’s a little part of the wall in the living room that’s still visible!

By: David Oakes

David Oakes — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:37:31 +0000

“[A] couple of kit-bashed Shrinking Violet figures and Lost Girls.”

What a difference a comma makes…

(And is it a sign or fanboy maturity or Moore’s immaturity that the concept of a Moore penned Legion book leaves me with little more than a “Why bother?”)

By: Alan Coil

Alan Coil — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:36:23 +0000

I am a little frightened by how many comics, toys, and books I have. I desperately need to get some shelves.

By: James Schee

James Schee — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:56:54 +0000

Wow cool, it certainly looks like you guys have made a lot of improvements since last time I was in town visiting.

I remember being both amazed, and a little frightened :), by how many books you guys had.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:32:28 +0000

It was made by a carpenter at our church when I was a teen. When I went to find a companion for it years later, the bookcase place said they wouldn’t make one that large without a center support because the shelves would warp. 20 years later, they haven’t, because they’re solid boards, and whenever I moved, I flipped them over.

The first time I went to take it somewhere, though, we weren’t sure I could. It was built inside my bedroom, you see, and no one had ever thought about moving it. Thankfully, it just went down the hall and out the front door sideways. Since then, it’s gone up 18 flights of stairs in Philadelphia and into a former pencil factory in Jersey.

We don’t make furniture any more, but KC did the staining on that first case himself.

By: Rivkah

Rivkah — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:19:25 +0000

Something about these picture have put me in a state of mental bliss. There’s no home more perfect than a home filled with books.

Who made the handmade 6×8 foot companion? I ditched my ol’ particle-board bookshelves a year ago and made three 7′x2′x8″ (perfect size for paperbacks and light trade novels) oak shelves in almost these exact same colors, and I love ‘em. There’s something about making furniture yourself (or by a loved one) that’s so intensely satisfying, especially when all your favorite books find a permanent home in them. :)

By: KC

KC — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:41:18 +0000

Johanna didn’t mention this, but the glass cabinet (where the current manga live) was actually where my entire comic collection was stored when I was 12. Now it takes up 3/4 of the garage.