peter bagge

girlhero by megan kelso

Wizard #64: Megan Kelso

Megan Kelso and her self-published one-woman anthology series Girlhero were the focus of Palmer’s Picks in the fall of 1996.

crumple by dave cooper

Wizard #61: Dave Cooper

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

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!

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And now for something completely different…an unpublished article about indy comics written for a specialty magazine co-produced by Wizard and Toys R Us.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

cover of peter bagge's hate collection buddy the dreamer featuring buddy bradley

Wizard #30: Peter Bagge

Grab your flannel shirt, crank up some Seattle grunge, and read my profile of Peter Bagge’s Hate from 1994.

larry marder's tales of the beanworld comic book cover

Wizard #22: Larry Marder

Larry Marder’s Tales of the Beanworld is a most peculiar comic book experience, but my “Palmer’s Picks” about it had a decidedly peculiar opening line.

al feldstein's cover of ec comics' tales from the crypt #22

Wizard #11 & #12: EC Comics

Back in the summer of 1992, I devoted two “Palmer’s Picks” columns to EC Comics. Now you can relive the whole experience in one handy blog post!

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.

doug gray's eye of mongombo with a duck attacked by a gang of mimes

Wizard #8: Humor Comics

A look back at my very serious examination of some seriously funny cartoonists like Peter Bagge, Drew Friedman, Doug Gray, and more.

morpheus from the cover of neil gaiman's sandman #1 by dave mckean

Wizard #6: Neil Gaiman

Revisiting the very first “Palmer’s Picks” column from Wizard Magazine and my essay about Neil Gaiman’s iconic Sandman series.

Cartoonist Kayfabe Playlist: Palmer's Picks