Tag: martin wagner

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.

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 #50: Small Press Expo 1995

October 1995 (on sale date: August 1995)

Palmer's Picks hit the road for the Small Press Expo for Wizard's fiftieth issue.

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Unpublished (written spring 1994)

And now for something completely different...an unpublished article about indy comics written for a specialty magazine co-produced by Wizard and Toys R Us.

Wizard #26: James A. Owen

October 1993 (on sale date: August 1993)

Self-publisher James A. Owen and his fantasy series Starchild was the subject of the twentieth installment of "Palmer's Picks."

martin wagner's hepcats comic book cover

Wizard #16: Martin Wagner

December 1992 (on sale date: October 1992)

Troubled self-publisher Martin Wagner, and his comic Hepcats, was the focus of my tenth "Palmer's Picks" column. Where did it all go wrong?