Tag: jim woodring

Wizard #73: Ed Brubaker

September 1997 (on sale date: July 1997)

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

peep show by joe matt from the wizard 1997 preview issue

Wizard #65: 1997 Preview

January 1997 (on sale date: November 1996)

The Palmer's Picks recap of 1996/preview of 1997 was the final year-end installment of the column.

Wizard #61: Dave Cooper

September 1996 (on sale date: July 1996)

Dave Cooper talked about his serialized graphic novel Crumple in his Palmer's Picks interview.

Wizard #60: Tom Hart

August 1996 (on sale date: June 1996)

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

Wizard #57: Rick Veitch

May 1996 (on sale date: March 1996)

The second Palmer's Picks on Rick Veitch focused on the "Crypto Zoo" story from his Rare Bit Fiends series of dream comics.

Wizard #56: Jay Stephens

April 1996 (on sale date February 1996)

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.

Wizard #53: 1996 Preview

January 1996 (on sale date: November 1995)

A recap of the year 1995 in alternative comics, and a look at what was in store for 1996.

the back cover of jay stephens' land of nod treasury

Wizard #37: Jay Stephens

September 1994 (on sale date: July 1994)

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

a selection of alternative comics from the 1990s, including robert crumb, joe matt, joe sacco, roberta gregory, julie doucet, chester brown, terry laban and stephen bissette

Wizard: How To Collect Comics

Unpublished (written spring 1994)

And now for something completely different...an unpublished article about indy comics written for a specialty magazine co-produced by Wizard and Toys R Us.

Wizard #36: Jim Woodring

August 1994 (on sale date: June 1994)

Delve into the dreamscapes of Jim Woodring with a revisit of my "Palmer's Picks" about his Frank comics.

a collection of minicomics including work by david lasky, aleksander zograf, matt feazell, elizabeth watasin, tom motley and sean bieri

Wizard #32 & #33: Minicomics

April & May 1994 (on sale dates: February & March 1994)

My look at some standout minicomics of the '90s was spread over two issues of Wizard, and there still wasn't room for all the good ones.

brian sendelbach's cover for tundra publishing humor anthology hyena featuring a lot of grotesque faces hurting each other

Wizard #23: Everything…And The Kitchen Sink Too

September 1993 (on sale date: July 1993)

My second feature about Kevin Eastman's Tundra spirals into chaos when Brandon Lee's death scuttles plans for The Crow and Kitchen Sink "buys" the company.

chester brown's ed the happy clown from the cover of yummy fur

Wizard #13: “Weird” Comics

September 1992 (on sale date: July 1992)

Relive the time I talked about Chester Brown's adults-only Yummy Fur in Wizard Magazine (along with Dan Clowes, Charles Burns and Jim Woodring).

james o'barr's the crow trade paperback cover from tundra publishing

Wizard #12: Tundra-The Creator’s Edge

August 1992 (on sale date: June 1992)

A look back at my first feature length magazine article, a profile of Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman's Tundra Publishing.