Mondo is a brand, their stuff is not better or worse than any of the other places doing these kinds of limited prints. Mondo is a phenomenon that is hard to explain. They do low runs for fast sellouts, which perpetuates the aura. Most of the posters can eventually be found for cost or less. I attribute Mondo's meteoric rise to the Olly Moss Star Wars set. The press that gave them major name recognition. Others with more experience and history may chime in and disagree.
I jumped in hard, jumped out equally as hard. I had a bunch of tubes, no flat file, so kept them on the kitchen table for a year. I finally said forget it, if I am not going to frame something I will sell it. Its very easy to get caught in the hype of every new show and release but I use restraint now and ask myself if I will really frame and display the piece or not.
For me there are so few movies I really love enough to frame and put on the wall - Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Tolkien related stuff, maybe some Alien stuff, Conan (yet to find anything I really like), the Thing.
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