Lollipop Magazine

Graffic Traffic – As Our Story Continues – Column

July 1, 1997

Basement Comics has collected the six early, self-published issues of Bud Root’s CaveWoman, a well-drawn mix of Good Girl cheesecake and lots of dinosaurs.

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.

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.

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!!!”

Graffic Traffic – The Return of Stuff – Column

June 1, 1996

Otherwise you’d be hip-deep in new Image titles, concerned about Captain America, and still dreaming of being loved by someone with an impossible body.

Graffic Traffic – Column

May 1, 1996

Sandman #75 is just what writer Neil Gaiman promised: his retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, a glorious finale to one of Comics’ Greatest Stories.