Tag: dan clowes

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 #72: Peter Kuper

August 1997 (on sale date: June 1997)

Famed magazine illustrator and master of silent comics Peter Kuper was interviewed for Wizard in the summer of '97 to discuss several of his graphic novels.

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.

peep show by joe matt from the wizard 1997 preview issue

Wizard #65: 1997 Preview

January 1997 (on sale date: November 1996)

The Palmer's Picks recap of 1996/preview of 1997 was the final year-end installment of the column.

Wizard #62: Seth

October 1996 (on sale date: August 1996)

The Palmer's Picks interview with Canadian cartoonist Seth appeared shortly before he began his long-running Clyde Fans graphic novel.

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 #58: Top 10

June 1996 (on sale date: April 1996)

Wizard's unofficial small press issue featured a special Palmer's Picks rundown of Ten Small Press Books You Should Own: Hate, Eightball, Dirty Plotte, and more!

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 #52: Strange Attractors

December 1995 (on sale date: October 1995)

The obscure self-published series Strange Attractors got a full-length Palmer's Picks column near the end of its run.

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 #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.

a selection of alternative comics from the 1990s, including robert crumb, joe matt, joe sacco, roberta gregory, julie doucet, chester brown, terry laban and stephen bissette

Wizard: How To Collect Comics

Unpublished (written spring 1994)

And now for something completely different...an unpublished article about indy comics written for a specialty magazine co-produced by Wizard and Toys R Us.

cover of the final issue of teri s. wood's wandering star

Wizard #35: Teri S. Wood

July 1994 (on sale date: May 1994)

There were quite a few self-published comics in the '90s. Teri S. Wood's science fiction series Wandering Star was one of the few to get a "Palmer's Picks" profile.

cover of peter bagge's hate collection buddy the dreamer featuring buddy bradley

Wizard #30: Peter Bagge

February 1994 (on sale date: December 1993)

Grab your flannel shirt, crank up some Seattle grunge, and read my profile of Peter Bagge's Hate from 1994.

cover of daniel clowes' lout rampage, colleting stories from eightball

Wizard #29: Dan Clowes

January 1994 (on sale date: November 1993)

My "Palmer's Picks" about Daniel Clowes' Eightball: magazine column or college essay? You be the judge!

paul chadwick's concrete reflected in a mirror

Wizard #23: Paul Chadwick

July 1993 (on sale date: May 1993)

Paul Chadwick's Concrete was the subject of a "Palmer's Picks" column, but what happens when you lose interest in a comic you used to like?

larry marder's tales of the beanworld comic book cover

Wizard #22: Larry Marder

June 1993 (on sale date: April 1993)

Larry Marder's Tales of the Beanworld is a most peculiar comic book experience, but my "Palmer's Picks" about it had a decidedly peculiar opening line.

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).