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Tim Vigil cleaved his way into public consciousness with Grips # 1 in the fall of 1986, around the same time as Watchmen # 1. The artist announced his arrival with a double splash page — aggravatingly split into two frames — highlighting what has become the hallmarks of his work: sex and violence. In that spread, vigilante protagonist … Read more
Bill W. Miller Promises More Jontar as Bib Fortuna Actor and Other Celebs Induct Cartoonists Into the First Power Comics Hall of Fame Before Sewer Mutant, before Cartoonist Kayfabe, there was Power Comics. For nearly a decade the Power Comics crew has been excavating and documenting the diamonds they find in the dollar bin rough, … Read more
For this month’s trash barrel fireside chat, I interviewed Nicholas Bunch and MechanicalPencilGirl, two of the people behind my favorite current comic: Reptile House Comix. Reptile House is a collective of Philadelphia-based comics creators. Every issue of their zine-format anthology is chock-full of lowbrow comics, art, and gags by creators like Tia Roxae, ShittyStyle, Cum … Read more
It had to happen! Sewer Mutant now has a podcast! You can listen to it on YouTube above, or subscribe to the feed. You can also find it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and a bunch of other places. For our inaugural trash barrel fireside chat, I talk with Barbatus and Meanboss, the artists … Read more
EC only published horror comics from around 1950 until 1955. But that was long enough to warp a new generation of cartoonists. A decade after the Comics Code Authority defanged newsstand comic books, Underground Comix . “I always saw the underground comix movement as a sort of extension of the ECs,” S. Clay Wilson told … Read more
Continuity Studios. The Studio. Homage Studios. Extreme Studios. Gaijin Studios. These are near-legendary agglomerations of talent that comics fans will remember forever. The short-lived Homegrown Studios should have been on that list, if only they’d gotten more of a chance to show off their work before the mid-90s comics market crash. They published a small … Read more
A prehistory of Outlaw Comics could stretch back as far as the Marquis de Sade’s The 120 Days of Sodom in 1785, or even to paleolithic erotic art. It could cover films, novels, art, music, and more. But let’s stick to comics. We’ll begin with Entertaining Comics, better known as EC, because you can draw … Read more
Part 1: My Internet Before the Internet Part 2: Empire Building Part 3: The End My family moved from Dalhart to Sheridan, Wyoming in December of 1994. It was a difficult move. I didn’t have many friends in Dalhart, but it was hard to leave the ones I had. We’d lived in Texas my whole … Read more
I’m still plugging away at the Outlaw Comics history series. The “prehistory” section — which covers things like EC, underground comix, Warren magazines, the rise of the direct market and more — is taking quite a long time. I already jumped ahead once with the Avatar Press history. Below I’m sharing a timeline I assembled for the Bad Girls … Read more
So you want to read some Outlaw Comics and don’t know where to start. Don’t worry, your friendly neighborhood Sewer Mutant has you covered. For better or worse, building an Outlaw Comics collection generally means haunting your local quarter bins or shelling out for back issues on sites like Lone Star Comics or eBay. But … Read more