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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.

peep show by joe matt from the wizard 1997 preview issue

Wizard #65: 1997 Preview

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

crumple by dave cooper

Wizard #61: Dave Cooper

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

the sands by tom hart

Wizard #60: Tom Hart

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

rare bit fiends by rick veitch

Wizard #57: Rick Veitch

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

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.

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.

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

And now for something completely different…an unpublished article about indy comics written for a specialty magazine co-produced by Wizard and Toys R Us.

jim woodring's frank

Wizard #36: Jim Woodring

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

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.

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

Wizard #13: “Weird” Comics

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).

Cartoonist Kayfabe Playlist: Palmer's Picks