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The Amateur Creator’s Union Part 2: Empire Building Part 1: My Internet Before the Internet Part 2: Empire Building Part 3: The End While I was yacking with my new-found friends, the Amateur Creator’s Union was building its own little publishing empire. It started with a series of photocopied “ashcan” comics. Here the ACU played … Read more
The Secret Origins of Avatar Press, The Last Outlaw Publisher I’ve long been puzzled by Avatar Press’s origins. It appeared seemingly out of nowhere in the mid-90s to publish a staggering number of titles that had previously been published elsewhere. Most of these were “Bad Girl” comics, like Widow (London Night Studios), NiraX (Entity), Hellina … Read more
Part 1: My Internet Before the Internet Part 2: Empire Building Part 3: The End One of the most important moments of my youth came one October day in 1993 when I spotted the following news story in Wizard magazine # 27: The Amateur Creator’s Union, a new non-profit organization dedicated to [helping inexperienced comic … Read more
From the very beginning, comics were dangerous. In the early-1900s, magazines like The Atlantic Monthly and Ladies Home Journal ran articles accusing comic strips, still a new addition to newspapers, of undermining literacy and encouraged children to disrespect their parents and the law. In the 1950s, crime and horror comics incited a full-blown moral panic … Read more
The Outlaw Comics community lost one of its most important figures when Glen Hammonds passed away on February 13, 2020 after a three and a half year battle with pancreatic cancer. Hammonds founded the comics mail order, wholesale, and publishing company Raw Comics. He coined the term “Outlaw Comics” in the early 1990s and popularized … Read more
Content warning: this article discusses comic books that portray violence, including sexual violence, in a graphic manner. I don’t describe these things in detail in this article (though might discuss them in more detail in future articles) and have tried to keep the illustrations relatively tame, but some do contain gore and sexually suggestive images. … Read more