Sewer Mutant Podcast Episode 1: Sortie Sack

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

Best Comics Imprint You’ve Never Heard Of: Homegrown Studios

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

Sad Sack: The Comic Forcing Us to Think the Unthinkable

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

Remembering Glen Hammonds, Outlaw Comics Patron

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