Comics – Page 6 – Lollipop Magazine

Underground Station – Column

June 1, 1997

Fantagraphics have a new Crumb title, Self-Loathing, due out in May for $3.50. This will be in the standard black & white format.

Graffic Traffic – More Comics About Buildings And Food – Column

June 1, 1997

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark and Deadbeats: New In Town reprint the early issues of their comics. Elvira at least has the goofy camp, if not the cleavage.

Graffic Traffic – Thank You Sir, May I Have Another? – Column

May 1, 1997

Minimum Wage: Nobody draws the kind of people I’ve known with an art style that is professionally clean, but with a less-schooled creative natural ease.

Underground Station – Column

April 1, 1997

There’s been a burst of autobiographical comics within the underground. Justin Green, Harvey Pekar and Robert Crumb are just a few of the more prolific.

Graffic Traffic – Column

February 1, 1997

While it’s a four-part mini-series and over by the time of this writing, I recommend Milestone’s Wise Son – The White Wolf (art and story by Ho Che Anderson).

Graffic Traffic – Column

December 1, 1996

Chuck Dixon weaves a story that makes sense, holds together, and incredibly, actually adds to the Joker persona and to the on-going Joker-Batman entanglement.

Graffic Traffic – Column

November 1, 1996

Years ago, the best of Marvel Comics’ stable left, disgruntled at creating characters and being stiffed on licensing money, to form Image Comics.

Graffic Traffic – Column

October 1, 1996

Since super-heroes still dominate the comic world, it falls on those who make the stuff to deliver something more. Or just something better.

Graphic Traffic – Less Talk, More Comics – Column

September 1, 1996

Everything that was good about the really old Fantastic Four comics and Godzilla movies is in this book.

Graffic Traffic – Column

August 1, 1996

So do I hate everything this month? No, no. There’s good stuff out there, or, to quote The Kids In The Hall, “Fine Ham Abounds!!!”