Lollipop Magazine

Graffic Traffic – Ryk loses his war with the Marvel Empire – Column

November 1, 1995

In 1995, Marvel did it to us all, the whole comic company/distributor/retailer web. People lost their jobs and their dreams of self-employment.

Graffic Traffic – Ryk Goes to War with Marvel Empire – Column

October 1, 1995

Now it’s all gone, wiped out in what could be just another case of Darwinian business reality. Maybe that’s all it is. But that wouldn’t make a good read.

Graffic Traffic – Top Ten Reasons Why I Have No Real Column This Month – Column

September 1, 1995

Sure, Thor has sucked like tar since Walt Simonson left in 1987, but a new storyline by Warren Ellis and art by Mike Deodato, add a whole fresh, godlike start.

Graffic Traffic – Mr. Ryk Goes to Comic Storeville – Column

July 1, 1995

Even if you find a comic store that is well-lit, professionally arranged, and staffed by people who wash regularly, it still seems an intimidating place.

Graffic Traffic – Column

June 1, 1995

Hilariously and often poignantly lived through is Bitchy Bitch, an every-woman trying to live in a man’s world and survive doing it. Consistently a great book.

The Bed – Fiction

May 1, 1995

She gave him a look that had him pointing north. She pulled him down to the ground. “We will call this laying down together, and this place we will call a bed.”

Graffic Traffic – Column

May 1, 1995

This extra-dimensional energy was the result of an alien scientist’s experiment that went kablooey because the United States set off atom bombs in the ’50s.

Graffic Traffic – Column

April 1, 1995

Yes, Dr. Druid of Dr. Strange and Avengers as well as that recently cancelled, did-we-really-have-to-kill-the-trees-to-make-it? title, Secret Defenders.

Graffic Traffic – Column

March 1, 1995

Weathering the storm and still strong are Love & Rockets, Naughty Bits, Hate, Usagi Yojimbo, Cerebus; all knew quality speaks for itself and never compromised.

Graffic Traffic – Column

February 1, 1995

There’s Steve Bissette’s Tyrant. Set in the Cretaceous period, it gives an up-to-your-neck-in-flies-and-filth look at life and times in that era.