Bruce Sweeney | Lollipop Magazine

Underground Station – Column

September 29, 2006

Word has it that the great underground artist John Jackson, aka Jaxon, has died at his own hand by a gunshot. We have lost an enormous talent.

Underground Station – Column

April 28, 2006

Adventure Classics is perfectly named. Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, and O. Henry paired with current illustrators like Hunt Emerson and Mary Fleener.

Buddy Does Seattle – Review

February 3, 2006

By the great Peter Bagge, this is a helluva book with 336 pages of black and white humor. The complete Buddy Bradley stories from Bagge’s Hate comics Vol. 1.

Underground Station – Column

June 13, 2005

Now the term is “alternative comics,” which pushes the borders back from political/dope-oriented or bawdy stories to equally controversial graphic novels.

Underground Station – Column

February 28, 2005

It’s taken me nearly 20 years to claw my way up from Playboy to Lollipop, but I’m finally here in the big time!

Underground Station – Column

October 4, 2004

In an odd recycling, underground comix legend Spain has moved towards a new comic action hero that is totally reminiscent of his earlier comix hero, Trashman.

Underground Station – Column

May 23, 2004

Chrysalis, a British publisher, is moving ahead with a history of underground comics. The author, Dez Skinn, is a previous editor of a magazine devoted to the British sci-fi phenomenon, Doctor Who.

Mr. Crumb goes into these restaurants, orders food, and while he waits or is between courses, he draws fellow patrons or random ideas onto his placemats. He collects them, sends them to a publisher, and they end up in these books.

Underground Station – Column

July 23, 2003

What the book lacks in full sweep of its subject, it replaces with good looks. The editing is excellent and the content can be stunning. Its display of underground art pieces – some of it rare – brings you to realize that this movement laid a lot of bricks in the foundation of alternative illustrated periodicals.

Underground Station – Column

April 18, 2003

Ever since Robert Crumb and Justin Green, there’s been a glut of young artists sure that we want to read their personal anecdotes of growth. Summer Blonde captures issues #5 through #8 of Adrian Tomine’s personal comic, Optic Nerve, and looks to be a blockbuster.

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