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Post by mikelmidnight on May 27, 2017 11:37:21 GMT -5
I do wish some of these, particularly the ones which were focussed on articles rather than listings, or on original comics, would be reprinted by some charitable soul with more money than sense. There have been collections of Alter Ego, and Bill Black has done some collections of his 70's material.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 27, 2017 13:30:43 GMT -5
I do wish some of these, particularly the ones which were focussed on articles rather than listings, or on original comics, would be reprinted by some charitable soul with more money than sense. There have been collections of Alter Ego, and Bill Black has done some collections of his 70's material. Some did morph into actual books. Ron Goulart published Comics, The Golden Age, which provided the basis for a few histories of comic books that he wrote.      David Anthony Kraft has collected some of the Comics Interview material:  |
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Post by hondobrode on May 27, 2017 18:43:01 GMT -5
I've got most of those, and love Ron Goulart's articles.
Haven't seen that Comics Interview complete collection before. That was a really good series. I liked how they not only interviewed big names, but also production people behind the scenes that you've probably never noticed or knew of.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 27, 2017 19:03:25 GMT -5
I read all those Comics Interviews as they were being published but I can't give the magazine itself a very high score. The problem being that they had 6 or maybe more interviews per issue. That, plus all the artwork that accompanied the interviews, as well as the ad pages, left the interviews themselves very short and lots of areas left unasked. Great that they spoke to so many people but they were far from in-depth interviews. Seemed they also tended to steer away from anything controversial nor would challenge the one who was interviewed with the responses he/she provided. Comics Interview never wanted to step on any ones toes and played it very safe
Now, the interviews in the Comics Journal magazine were the real deal
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Post by berkley on May 27, 2017 20:04:31 GMT -5
Great that they spoke to so many people but they were far from in-depth interviews. Seemed they also tended to steer away from anything controversial nor would challenge the one who was interviewed with the responses he/she provided. Comics Interview never wanted to step on any ones toes and played it very safe Pretty much the same as most interviews of comics creators and editors now, then. |
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Post by hondobrode on May 27, 2017 21:49:12 GMT -5
Well nobody interviews like TCJ.
Gary Groth and company are legendary for their in-depth interviews and no-punches-pulled style.
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Post by tingramretro on May 28, 2017 2:47:57 GMT -5
This is Crikey! the British comics fanzine I used to write for/edit. It was launched as a quarterly by Sequential Media in 2007, went bi-monthly with issue #3, and ended up running sixteen issues to August 2010, plus the digital Special shown. We were fairly successful, and I had the pleasure of getting to know a number of my childhood heroes through the mag; Dave Gibbons and Pat Mills both contributed pieces to Crikey!, Pat more than once, and we interviewed a number of people including Kevin O'Neill, Bryan Talbot, Dez Skinn and Enrique Romero. Alan Moore was supportive, but impossible to pin down for an interview. In the end, it was the collapse of Borders UK that killed us: we'd started out with limited distribution via mail order and in branches of Forbidden Planet, but sank a lot of cash into getting a high street distribution deal with Borders starting with #11. Things were looking pretty good. Then Borders went bankrupt and took our entire distribution network and a chunk of money wih them. Glenn Fleming, Crikey!s publisher, still wants to revive the title, but short of a lottery win...   |
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Post by codystarbuck on May 28, 2017 20:34:51 GMT -5
This is Crikey! the British comics fanzine I used to write for/edit. It was launched as a quarterly by Sequential Media in 2007, went bi-monthly with issue #3, and ended up running sixteen issues to August 2010, plus the digital Special shown. We were fairly successful, and I had the pleasure of getting to know a number of my childhood heroes through the mag; Dave Gibbons and Pat Mills both contributed pieces to Crikey!, Pat more than once, and we interviewed a number of people including Kevin O'Neill, Bryan Talbot, Dez Skinn and Enrique Romero. Alan Moore was supportive, but impossible to pin down for an interview. In the end, it was the collapse of Borders UK that killed us: we'd started out with limited distribution via mail order and in branches of Forbidden Planet, but sank a lot of cash into getting a high street distribution deal with Borders starting with #11. Things were looking pretty good. Then Borders went bankrupt and took our entire distribution network and a chunk of money wih them. Glenn Fleming, Crikey!s publisher, still wants to revive the title, but short of a lottery win... You weren't alone in that. Borders bankruptcy took down Tokyo Pop's US operation and damaged several smaller distributors and publishers. They had purchased large amounts of material; but, couldn't pay their bills and the publishers and distributors took huge hits to cash flow. The ones who could ride it out survived. Similar things happened when Login Bros. (a small press distributor to US bookstores) went under. Several of their publisher clients got into severe financial difficulty and went under or nearly did. Fantagraphics was using them and were close to folding; but, were able to make an appeal to the community through multiple comics press channels and got enough direct orders for books to stay afloat until they got a new distributor and financing. Earlier, around the Holiday season of 1996 or 97, bookstores ended up with a lot of unsold high-profile releases from major publishers and sent back so many returns that several of the big houses got into financial trouble. The publishers had pushed big initial print runs and bookstores loaded up on what had been sold as pure things. However, there were several turkeys, including Robert James Waller's (Bridges of Madison County) Puerto Vallarta Squeeze, a memoir from Faye Dunaway, two books about Michael Jordan, while he was gone from the NBA (playing baseball), and the dual Stephen King/Richard Bachman releases (Regulators and Desperation). I worked for Barnes & Noble and we had huge stacks of this stuff everywhere, over the holiday season. After that, the company started pulling back on initial orders and publishers retooled their systems for faster reorder turnaround. |
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Post by codystarbuck on May 28, 2017 20:37:30 GMT -5
I was just looking at some of Bill Black's Fun Comics, his mixture of fanzine/comic book, done in the early 80s. I believe I saw the Bullseye cover (#3) in a comic shop, when I started college, in 1984.  |
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Post by zilch on May 29, 2017 21:04:47 GMT -5
My indispensable fanzine of the 1970's was The Comic Reader.  This was the first issue that i bought in a comic shop on my first trip to a comic shop! B&R Comix World carried a few 'zines (this, TCR, Jennings Comic World and a few back issues of of others). None of the STL shop owners were really big into fandom, so this aspect was a bit sparse, tho we did see stuff like Wizzard and semi-pro stripzine work from Rick Burchett, Paul Daly but sadly, no Jim Lee who did sell little mini-posters for a couple of bucks each before turning pro. |
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Post by fz2017 on Feb 6, 2018 16:52:31 GMT -5
Anybody on here know of a good Batman site/discussion?
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 6, 2018 18:18:52 GMT -5
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Feb 11, 2018 14:49:12 GMT -5
Love my old fanzine, but I must say my favorite and most beloved comics of the past ten years have all been fanzines. Here's my favorite ever though :  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 12, 2018 14:59:08 GMT -5
In the early 90s, at a sale at Heroes Aren't Hard to Find, in Charlotte, NC, i came across an issue of the original run of Starlog's Comic Scene magazine. I had been picking up the then-current version, which had restarted a year or so before. The current version was heavily geared towards Hollywood; but covered comics fairly well, with in depth articles, though with more of a focus on the mainstream. I was surprised at the earlier version and greatly enjoyed the issue, so I sought out the others. They had some great interviews, including one of the first I had ever seen with Mike Grell, discussing his material in both comic books and his work on the Tarzan neswpaper strip. Howard Cruse had a great column about alternative comics and the magazine offered really good features on creating comic books. Vastly superior to those Wizard pieces, getting into real tools and mechanics. They had a great one about lettering that was a subject most magazines ignored. It also covered the industry better. However, I can see why Starlog revamped it into something with a wider appeal. Early version...   Later version...   |
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