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charless burns' black hole

Wizard #48: Charles Burns

My interview with Charles Burns was featured in “Palmer’s Picks” when he began his landmark series Black Hole in 1995.

cover of stephen bissette's tyrant 2

Wizard #38: Steve Bissette

Horror master Steve Bissette’s sorely-missed dinosaur comic Tyrant was the subject of Palmer’s Picks in the fall of ’94.

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.”

eddie campbell's bacchus on the cover of deadface immortality isn't forever trade paperback

Wizard #15: Eddie Campbell

Eddie Campbell’s Deadface got the “Palmer’s Picks” spotlight, and now you can look back at all of the excitement just like it was ’92 again.

alan moore and bill sienkiewicz's big numbers cover image

Wizard #14: Alan Moore

Alan Moore, Big Numbers, From Hell, Lost Girls, glaring typos, and flatulence…all in my revisit of “Palmer’s Picks” from 1992.

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).

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.

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.

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