Mutation Vectors: Imprinted

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Status Update

Just a quick one to plug a few things.

Sewer Mutant

A man follows a crowd into a night club called Raze. Inside the crowded club, another man, this one wearing a visor, seems to recognize the first man and leads him away.
Art by Kurt Belcher

 

Above: An excerpt from Memento Amoris by Kurt Belcher from the forthcoming Sewer Mutant Cyberpunk Spectacular print zine. There are two more previews on Instagram here and here.

New podcast episode: The Dark Age was also the era of imprints. This is a solo episode where I run down a brief history of the rise of imprints like Marvel’s Epic and DC’s Vertigo, and how imprints are becoming central to comics publishing once again.

Media Diet

Tabs

  • An Alternate History Of Comics: A video from Strange Brain Parts on YouTube tracing the history of comics by looking outside of the superhero genre.
  • Meanderware. This is a little hard to explain but is worth a click.

Music

  • We caught Die Spitz at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland the other night. Fun!

Podcasts

A few perennial favorites for keeping on top of what’s going on in the world, locally, and in the comics biz, respectively:

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And that’s quite enough out of me!