Stewart Lee on the collector of mass-reproduced objects in a digital age…

“And all this stuff, in the digital age, is literally worthless financially, and losing any value it had daily. There’s nothing here a burglar would even bother with. I’m aware I’m a social relic […] like a character in a dystopian science-fiction novel, holed up in a cave full of cultural artefacts, waiting for the young Jenny Agutter to arrive in a tinfoil miniskirt, fleeing a poisonous cloud on the surface, to check out my stash and ask me: “Who exactly was the Quicksilver Messenger Service? Who was this Virginia Woolf? What kind of man was Jonah Hex?” “

If I was a collector of modest means, what would I be investing in today?

* “Golden era” 1990-2000 computer games, in mint boxed format.

* Various hand-made ‘pop surrealist’, Lovecraftiana and steampunk hand-made crafts items. Fine contemporary clockwork and electric automata.

* Hand-written private diaries.

* I’d be commissioning new comic-books from young talent and retaining the original artwork.