Tag: drawn & quarterly

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.

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 #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 #53: 1996 Preview

January 1996 (on sale date: November 1995)

A recap of the year 1995 in alternative comics, and a look at what was in store for 1996.

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 #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 #46: Adrian Tomine

June 1995 (on sale date: April 1995)

My interview with Optic Nerve creator Adrian Tomine appeared just as he was taking his minicomic to Drawn & Quarterly as a full-size comic.

Wizard #45: Don Simpson

May 1995 (on sale date: March 1995)

Dandy Don's superhero parody series Bizarre Heroes was featured in Palmer's Picks in early 1995.

Wizard #43: David Mazzucchelli

March 1995 (on sale date: January 1995)

Legendary cartoonist David Mazzucchelli on his anthology series Rubber Blanket and the joys of two-color comics.

Wizard #42: Very Vicky

February 1995 (on sale date: December 1994)

Self-published '90s comic Very Vicky was profiled in "Palmer's Picks" along with its creators Jana Christy and John Mitchell.

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.

Wizard #31: Chester Brown

March 1994 (on sale date: January 1994)

A great example of perfect timing: this column about Chester Brown's Yummy Fur was published in 1994, right as the influential series ended.

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.