xeric grant Archives – Palmer’s Picks

Wizard #69: James Kochalka

Prolific cartoonist James Kochalka landed a slot in Palmer’s Picks with one of his early graphic novels.

Linda Medley was interviewed for Palmer’s Picks when she began her fairy tale comic book Castle Waiting.

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

My interview with Optic Nerve creator Adrian Tomine appeared just as he was taking his minicomic to Drawn & Quarterly as a full-size comic.

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.

Troubled self-publisher Martin Wagner, and his comic Hepcats, was the focus of my tenth “Palmer’s Picks” column. Where did it all go wrong?