Chuck Raborn turned a childhood love of wax packs into Chuck’s Field of Dreams, an Albany card shop where one-of-ones, Louisiana history and a family business share the same collecting table.

A high school art assignment started Brad Thompson on a journey through front doors, galleries, Hurricane Katrina and more than 50 years of painting before finally bringing him to the street where he always wanted to be: Royal Street.

Remembering Ben Jones, who kept the General Lee running as Cooter Davenport and later gave Hazzard County a permanent home. His passing closes another chapter of a show that helped define my childhood.

Remembering Mississippi comic-book artist Mitch Byrd, whose dynamic work on the New Orleans-set Cat & Mouse launched a career that later reached Marvel, DC and beyond.

Five comics. One convention table. Nearly an hour with Jim Shooter discussing Marvel, Valiant, publishing and creativity. Years later, the conversation remains every bit as memorable as the signatures.

From a vintage copy of Welcome to My Nightmare to a signed CD nearly forty years later, my journey with Alice Cooper became a story about music, faith and learning to look beyond the makeup.

Growing up in Peru, Marco dreamed of giant robots, American movies and the toys he saw on television. Those childhood memories eventually led him across continents, into engineering and back to the characters that inspired it all.