Tag: charles burns

Wizard #77: A Small World?

January 1998 (on sale date: November 1997)

Was there a future for the small press after the late '90s comic book market crash? I tried to answer that question with this feature in Wizard #77.

Wizard #73: Ed Brubaker

September 1997 (on sale date: July 1997)

The penultimate "Palmer's Picks" featured cartoonist Ed Brubaker and his autobio and fiction comics including Lowlife, At The Seams, and Detour.

Wizard #71: Gary Spencer Millidge

July 1997 (on sale date: May 1997)

The critically-acclaimed comic Strangehaven and creator Gary Spencer Millidge were the subject of Palmer's Picks in the summer of '97.

Wizard #61: Dave Cooper

September 1996 (on sale date: July 1996)

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

Wizard #56: Jay Stephens

April 1996 (on sale date February 1996)

The second Palmer's Picks spotlight on Jay Stephens coincided with the launch of his two new comics, The Land of Nod and Atomic City Tales.

Wizard #49: Chris Ware

September 1995 (on sale date: July 1995)

Chris Ware was interviewed for "Palmer's Picks" as he began serializing Jimmy Corrigan in the pages of Acme Novelty Library.

Wizard #48: Charles Burns

August 1995 (on sale date: June 1995)

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

Wizard #41: The Picks of ’94

January 1995 (on sale date: November 1994)

Relive the heyday of alternative comics as I recap the best of 1994.

chester brown's ed the happy clown from the cover of yummy fur

Wizard #13: “Weird” Comics

September 1992 (on sale date: July 1992)

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

June 1992 (on sale date: April 1992)

Anthology comics Raw, Taboo and Drawn & Quarterly get the spotlight in this reexamination of my fourth "Palmer's Picks" column.

tom palmer jr from palmer's picks the alternative indy comics column from wizard the guide to comics

What is “Palmer’s Picks”?

The return of "Palmer's Picks!" The old alternative/indy comics column from Wizard is back with a brief history of how it all began and a mission statement.