julie doucet

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.

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!

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.

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And now for something completely different…an unpublished article about indy comics written for a specialty magazine co-produced by Wizard and Toys R Us.

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.

art spiegelman's iconic cover of raw magazine #1

Wizard #10: Anthologies

Anthology comics Raw, Taboo and Drawn & Quarterly get the spotlight in this reexamination of my fourth “Palmer’s Picks” column.

Cartoonist Kayfabe Playlist: Palmer's Picks