charles burns

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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).

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