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

Amateur Creator’s Union Part 3: The End

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

The Amateur Creator’s Union: My Internet Before the Internet, Part 1

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