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ed brubaker lowlife

Wizard #73: Ed Brubaker

The penultimate “Palmer’s Picks” featured cartoonist Ed Brubaker and his autobio and fiction comics including Lowlife, At The Seams, and Detour.

magic boy by james kochalka

Wizard #69: James Kochalka

Prolific cartoonist James Kochalka landed a slot in Palmer’s Picks with one of his early graphic novels.

the sands by tom hart

Wizard #60: Tom Hart

Cartoonist Tom Hart was featured in Palmer’s Picks for Wizard’s fifth anniversary issue.

jar of fools by jason lutes

Wizard #58: Top 10

Wizard’s unofficial small press issue featured a special Palmer’s Picks rundown of Ten Small Press Books You Should Own: Hate, Eightball, Dirty Plotte, and more!

atomic city tales by jay stephens

Wizard #56: Jay Stephens

The second Palmer’s Picks spotlight on Jay Stephens coincided with the launch of his two new comics, The Land of Nod and Atomic City Tales.

chris ware's acme novelty library

Wizard #49: Chris Ware

Chris Ware was interviewed for “Palmer’s Picks” as he began serializing Jimmy Corrigan in the pages of Acme Novelty Library.

adrian tomine's optic nerve

Wizard #46: Adrian Tomine

My interview with Optic Nerve creator Adrian Tomine appeared just as he was taking his minicomic to Drawn & Quarterly as a full-size comic.

the back cover of jay stephens' land of nod treasury

Wizard #37: Jay Stephens

The first of two full-length “Palmer’s Picks” focusing on the imaginative worlds of Canadian cartoonist Jay Stephens.

back cover of colleen doran's a distant soil 1

Wizard #28: Colleen Doran

The most controversial “Palmer’s Picks” ever! Read about all of the trouble surrounding my profile of Colleen Doran and A Distant Soil.

dylan horrocks cover for pickle 1 from tragedy strikes press which later became black eye productions

Wizard #25: Tragedy Strikes Press

Wizard’s milestone 25th issue contained my overview of short-lived Canadian publisher Tragedy Strikes Press (Pickle, Cheese Heads, Sin, Way Out Strips).

scott mccloud's destroy comic book cover

Wizard #20: Scott McCloud

I profiled Underrstanding Comics author Scott McCloud before his landmark book. Delve into his early work with a revisit of my original “Palmer’s Picks.”

Cartoonist Kayfabe Playlist: Palmer's Picks