The Montreal Signs Project: 10 years
Heritage Montreal’s blog has a look at ten years of the Montreal Signs Project.
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MarcG 19:35 on 2020-12-23 Permalink
Wow, Mars Comics, was that a crazy place or what? I spent hours rummaging through their junk with my friends as a teen.
Kate 20:43 on 2020-12-23 Permalink
Where was it? I wasn’t a comics buff myself (not having realized, as a teen, that I would grow up into an entertainment world dominated by comics and the aesthetic of comic books).
Update: I see from this PDF of a very old sci-fi newsletter that it was at 531A Ste‑Catherine West.
MarcG 20:49 on 2020-12-23 Permalink
That looks right to me. They moved to a location across the street at some point and were there for a few years before they closed. I didn’t go for the comics – they had piles of vinyl, casettes, and CDs, and a mishmash of other junk.
Uatu 13:10 on 2020-12-24 Permalink
Wow monsffa! That’s a real blast from the past!
Michael Black 14:06 on 2020-12-24 Permalink
Monsffa still exists, they’ve been having virtual meetings this year.
But they were about to leave their long time hotel, about January they started looking for a new location because the room rental was going up in a few months. They had narrowed it down to a few locations when the pandemic hit.I think they’re church basement bound, though maybe they’ll stay with virtual meetings.
They have a used book sale every November. A few years back they had one after a member moved and gave the club a lot of SF books. But they’ve kept it as an annual event. It preceeds the November meeting (when things are normal) and is open to the public. A better chance of finding good SF, and finding.people who want it. I went to one used book sale a few years ago, and they ended up with a lot of SF books, obviously from one person. And I figured most of it wouod remain afterwards, not enough interested people.
Kevin 14:11 on 2020-12-24 Permalink
Michael Black
Cool!
I really do need to make a better list of things I want to read/make up the missing volumes in my collection. Last year I picked up the Conan book I had been trying to find since the early 00s.
DeWolf 14:24 on 2020-12-24 Permalink
I guess it was before the Signs Project was officially launched, but I remember meeting Matt Soar in 2007 and he showed me some of the signs he had already managed to collect. I really hope that one day the signs can be properly displayed in a permanent exhibition.