Faust: Love of the Damned co-creator David Quinn is back this July with The Addiction, his first new comics work published since the final issue of Faust in 2012. Quinn is joined for this crime/horror/superhero/food series by co-creator/co-writer Vincent Zurzolo (co-owner of Metropolis Collectibles) and Claudia Balboni (known for Killer Queens from Dark Horse). The … Read more
Tim Vigil’s first project for Comics Express was Omega, a sci-fi series co-created with inker Paul Martin. Omega was a big departure from Grips. Vigil tapped into his love of Jack Kirby and Fantastic Four to produce cosmic psychedelia complete with “Kirby Crackle.” The story is the tale of a hiker who stumbles upon a … Read more
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
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
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