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Post by james on Feb 12, 2017 11:05:29 GMT -5
Does anyone read Back Issues. I do and enjoy the articles
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 12, 2017 12:43:59 GMT -5
Does anyone read Back Issues. I do and enjoy the articles Periodically, depending on the subject. I picked up a digital collection of the old issues and stumbled across one focusing on Mike Grell. As I read the article, I came across a chapter header that talked about the Sable tv series. The line was "So good it lasted 7 whole episodes." That was awfully familiar; it was my title for my review of the tv series, on IMDB. It was the first review posted there and the article was written about a year or so after I posted the review. I kind of retroactively wanted credit in print and at least a free subscription. Then, I had to laugh at the fact I was discovering it about 10 years later. I started reading with Comic Book Artist, when it debuted, before it morphed into Back Issue (or spun off, if you prefer), after coming to the Kirby Collector a bit late. Back Issue had a great issue devoted to women in comics, with some great perspectives from (mostly) the 80s generation of women professionals who came into the field. |
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Post by brutalis on Feb 15, 2017 13:36:18 GMT -5
Like codystarbuck, i have picked up issues that catch my interest periodically. Have about 30 or so issues both in print and digital. I really tend to gravitate towards the specialty issues: like horror, westerns, war or especially when covering much of the 70's. Great variety of articles and always tons of art and scans of the comics. Also enjoy that they include pictures of the artists/writers/colorists from the time about when they are writing the article. Interesting stuff all around for some light reading when i am out and about waiting in the doctor's office or auto shop.
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Post by Confessor on Feb 15, 2017 23:44:19 GMT -5
Yeah, I read it when a) I can find it over here in the UK b) it has articles in it about my favourite series. Same goes for Alter Ego magazine.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2017 1:13:59 GMT -5
Yeah, I read it when a) I can find it over here in the UK b) it has articles in it about my favourite series. Same goes for Alter Ego magazine. This is pretty close to my approach too (except I am in the US). When I see issues on the stands (not all shops order it, and many only order for pulls not the shelves so it's not always easy to find), and it has something that interests me, I'll pick it up. I sometimes pick up older issues at shows and such too. Same approach for Alter Ego (though I usually buy issues Kurt has an article in no matter what), but my interests skew more towards the Bronze Age and 80s, so I find stuff if interest in Back Issue a little more often. -M |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Feb 16, 2017 2:31:49 GMT -5
Yeah, I read it when a) I can find it over here in the UK b) it has articles in it about my favourite series. Same goes for Alter Ego magazine. This is pretty close to my approach too (except I am in the US). When I see issues on the stands (not all shops order it, and many only order for pulls not the shelves so it's not always easy to find), and it has something that interests me, I'll pick it up. I sometimes pick up older issues at shows and such too. Same approach for Alter Ego (though I usually buy issues Kurt has an article in no matter what), but my interests skew more towards the Bronze Age and 80s, so I find stuff if interest in Back Issue a little more often. -M I'm opposite from your point of view. It's because I grew up and read all those 70's and 80's books as well as all the fanzines that were published during that time. So I find very little in Back Issue that I did not already know. Now, Alter Ego I find fascinating because it's chock full of info that I have not heard about. I also find the writing style between the two a bit different. Back Issue seems a little fannish and adolescent, Alter Ego somewhat more sophisticated. The difference isn't blatant but I do get a sense of it. Granted, I don't know if things have changed of late. I have stopped going to the comic stores for the past 3 1/2 years so have not sampled either magazine in that time. |
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Post by starscape on Feb 16, 2017 14:26:07 GMT -5
I love Back Issue. Being in the UK, it is pretty difficult to find. None in our capital, Edinburgh, so I have to go to Glasgow (which I don't go to much, so have to rely on back issues of, erm, Back Issue). It's also very expensive. I would happily subscribe but adding on the postage just takes it too much when there are issues I'm just not that interested in.
Alter Ego I struggle with. It always looks interesting but it's really too much about creators, rather than stories and their history. I'm not too bothered about creators I'm afraid. I'd rather read about the ideas behind Galactus than where CC Beck was living in 1943.
I do wish Back Issue could also take account of the 1960s, rather than Bronze Age and beyond.
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Post by hondobrode on Feb 17, 2017 22:35:33 GMT -5
I love both, though as Professor Ish has pointed out, are entirely different in style, like People and The Economist.
Still love The Jack Kirby Collector as well.
God bless the Morrow brothers !
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 21, 2017 16:47:59 GMT -5
God bless the Morrow brothers ! The "Two Morrows" are John and his wife Pamela. twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=8"In 1989, my wife Pamela and I started TwoMorrows Advertising in Raleigh, North Carolina, providing advertising and graphic design services to local and national accounts. ("TwoMorrows" is a play on our last name-there’s two of us!)" If you create an account on their site, you get regular (but not too many) emails about upcoming issues, books, sales, etc.: twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=login |
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Post by hondobrode on Feb 21, 2017 21:27:51 GMT -5
John started it, but I met him and his brother that first year at SDCC.
I assumed that was where TwoMorrows came from.
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