Blackwing Volumes No. 343
$ 38.00
The Blackwing 343 limited edition Volumes pencil celebrates Broadcast TV!
If you know you know (IYKYK) why this pencil is related to television. Not streaming of today but broadcast TV, way back when there was a NTSC test pattern. A color bar that was on-screen when nothing was being broadcast. Remember the "snow" or black and white fuzz? Ah, the good ol' days of network television...
Background from Blackwing:
On February 28, 1983, a wartime surgeon named Hawkeye said “Goodbye, farewell, and amen.” Ten years later, Mayday Malone straightened a picture on the wall and turned out the lights for the last time. In millions of living rooms across the country, viewers sat quietly through these final moments, saying goodbye together. The credits rolled, but no one moved.
Carried freely through the air, broadcast television invited participation without qualification. The same signal that arrived at a downtown apartment also reached a home on the edge of a country road. Broadcast television created a quiet cultural leveling, allowing audiences to form connections not just with stories, but with one another.
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