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	Star Reach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Star Reach was an science fiction and fantasy comics anthology that was published between 1978-1980.
		The title picked up creators from the defunct Warren Publishing titles as well as independently minded writers and artists from Marvel and DC comics.
		The title ceased publication due to lack of sales but was an important contributor to the early 1980s Independent Comic Publishing Boom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Star_Reach (124 words)

	Neal Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Neal Adams (born June 6, 1941) is a comic book artist best known for his superhero stories which have a very naturalistic style of illustration.
		His best known collaborator is writer Dennis O'Neil who created noteworthy stories that reestablished Batman's dark brooding nature and experimented with social commentary in the Green Lantern title.
		During the 1970s Adams mostly did illustration for paperback publishers and some film work but with the Independent Comic Publishing Boom of the early 1980s he did work for Pacific Comics and other publishers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Neal_Adams (310 words)

	Nonduality Salon Highlights, #1823
		Prior to a boom in independent comic publishing in the 1980s, religion - especially Christianity - in comic books manifested mostly as evangelistic vehicles, Sunday school material, or maudlin stories of "good" boys and girls versus "bad." They were often sponsored by denominations or mission societies.
		Often heavy with violence, Vertigo comics and others of their type deal with issues of salvation and damnation, and justice and retribution, in a visceral manner.
		Image Comics created a historical story that dated from the crucifixion when Mary Magdalene began a secret lineage of women warriors who fought against the enemies of the Lord while struggling with authorities within the church to control and manipulate members of their order.
	www.nonduality.com /hl1823.htm (2753 words)

	Comic Book Artist Magazine #8 - Scott McCloud Interview - TwoMorrows Publishing
		Part science-fiction strip, part romance comic, Scott's title is one of the most fondly-recalled books, and we're grateful he took time from his extremely hectic schedule (preparing the final proof for his forthcoming Reinventing Comics) to grant us an interview.
		We did form a comics club in Syracuse, and got to know some other like-minded people, but we were a writer/artist team all through the rest of high school and college.
		The funny part is that the boom and bust, the whole Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles stuff, the obsession with #1 issues, the various knock-offs of the Turtles, from Eclipse's Adolescent Radioactive Black-Belt Hamsters [laughter]...
	www.twomorrows.com /comicbookartist/articles/08mccloud.html (4907 words)

	The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today
		Comic illustrators call themselves independent because they attempt to maintain independence from the publishing industry.
		However, the comic strip boom in Indonesia during the 1970s was flooded with numerous teenage romance comic strips, influenced by the residue of the "flower-power generation."
		He also gave his assurance that the comic industry in the country was indeed promising, especially considering that a number of companies, non-government organizations, and even political parties had begun to use comic strips.
	www.thejakartapost.com /yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20030920.P02 (988 words)

	Arts
		And with the popularity of comics, there must be a corresponding number of men and women who aspire to be writers, artists and publishers for the comics industry.
		In addition, there is an index of publishers and resources, a guide to making a comics 'zine, a brief essay on independent publishers, an interview with a major player on how to get into the industry and a comprehensive index of the book.
		The guide to independent publishing gives a good explanation as to why they are worthwhile to look into, as far as contacts, experience and recognition go.
	www.oberlin.edu /stupub/ocreview/archives/1996.03.01/arts/comic.html (990 words)

	Quarter To Three Forums :: View topic - My experiences as a comic/card dealer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		These were the trade shows where representatives from all the comic companies laid out their offerings for the coming year and tried to convince storeowners they would make big bucks selling them.
		Early series produced by Comic Images looked like crap and sold poorly, but a company by the name of Impel had just released a few series of the Marvel Universe that sold very well, with hologram chase cards that were in high demand.
		Comics collectors were finally mad at Marvel for churning out garbage for the past few years.
	www.quartertothree.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13386 (4721 words)

	A Brief Publishing History of Captain Canuck
		Comely was literally years ahead of his time: U.S. comics only started employing quality paper in the 80s and the multi-tone colouring in the last decade.
		In the pages of the comic, it was said he had left to pursue other projects (and certainly within a year he had launched his political comic Star Rider and the Peace Machine, in which he expounded on his belief in a global conspiracy between Western super-industrialists and the U.S.S.R.).
		The claim was that the sales were good, but the costs of producing an independent comic were just too high (U.S. advertisers weren't much interested in hawking their wares in a Canadian comic, and Canadian companies just weren't used to the idea of advertising in that venue).
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Study/4273/hist.html (835 words)

	Carmine Infantino Interview - Comic Book Artist #1 - TwoMorrows Publishing
		Comic Book Artist, Eisner Award winner for "Best Comics-Related Magazine", celebrates the lives and works of great cartoonists, writers and editors from all eras through in-depth interviews, feature articles, and unpublished art.
		CBA: You started doing comics that had a blurb on the debut issue that said "First DC Issue." Newsstands would shy away from first issues as they were untried, but you appealed directly to the collector.
		That year, we won every award comics had to offer, plus we were neck and neck with Marvel.
	www.twomorrows.com /comicbookartist/articles/01infantino.html (6970 words)

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		They were doing a better-than-average attempt to parody the state the comics industry was in at the time, where mutants ruled the charts (not unlike today) and ninjas seemed to be behind every bush (The Tick made light of the same market fad in the same time period; everyone had noticed it).
		So they published a short, awkwardly-produced magazine-sized comic, and on a lark decided that the best advertising they could get would be a story run by the Associated Press newswire.
		Some retailers were trying to "hoard" the comics, ordering dozens or hundreds of "extras" so that "when it got hot and was $200 a book, they'd make a killing." This falsely inflated print runs, and publishers kept publishing.
	www.io.com /~patman/posts/thompson.txt (1692 words)

	BAD HABIT: The comic book art of Jeff Nicholson
		A bust in the independent comics boom led to the series going bi-monthly with issue 24, and a year-off hiatus between 27 & 28.
		I was even convinced to enter into a reprint project with another publisher that resulted in 13 new covers that ended up going unpublished (it sounds crazy now, but at the time a new Ultraman show was debuting, and parody comics had a very brief resurgence).
		This is the only single comic sized issue still in print, but serves as a nice sampler to the series.
	www.coloniapress.com /ultra_klutz.html (486 words)

	Comic-Book Superstore: Main Level
		And reflecting the real boom in creativity and drive in the comics world today, you'll find an ever-growing list of independent publishers.
		Comics for the classroom: Science, history, biology, math, and beyond..
		All comics, characters, and related indicia are copyright © their respective creators, unless otherwise indicated.
	www.zianet.com /comic-booksuperstore/main (385 words)

	Notes from the Underground (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The 4th annual Underground Publishing Conference in Bowling Green, OH, over the June 22-23 (2002) weekend was just a great time all the way around.
		The exhibition hall was packed with tablers and their amazing projects -- zines, magazines, letterpress projects, comic book artists and more.
		Independent bookstores were there selling their wares, and so were librarians interested in adding to/getting the word out about their alternative book collections.
	www.bookmouth.com /upc_word.html (1807 words)

	CBR Special Features - Issue #206
		The standard American comic is stronger now than it has been in years, but not nearly so strong that it can withstand another bursting bubble.
		COMIC EFFECT continues to be one of the best old school fanzines available, a half-size labor of love.
		Well, they seem to in comics, where people are so obsessed with characters coming off as "heroic" that they beat it to death because they want to have their cake and eat it too.
	www.comicbookresources.com /columns/index.cgi?column=pd&article=1762 (3971 words)

	Articles - Todd McFarlane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		In 1992, he helped form Image Comics and created the occult hero Spawn, who became one of the 1990sâ most popular heroes and encouraged a trend in creator-owned comic book properties.
		As a teenager, he discovered comic books and was a fan of stars such as John Byrne and Frank Miller, but was especially drawn to the more atypical art of Michael Golden and Art Adams (Adamsâ detailed but cartoon-ish approach is especially noticeable in McFarlaneâs work).
		McFarlane's bold assertion that comic writers were irrelevant in comparison to artwork was seen as boorish, egotistical behavior, and the exchanges with David as bad publicity for the Image line that took the comic imprint several years to recover from.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Todd_McFarlane (1241 words)

	D.G. CHICHESTER
		I don't look at writing comics as any different than writing any good story (aside from the peculiar language and mechanics of the medium).
		If anything prepared me for comics, it was a diversity in the kind of things I enjoyed reading as a kid.
		While I've no beef doing work for hire work (unlike some, I go into those arrangements fairly open eyed to their pros and cons), there are some themes and approaches in storytelling that I now feel would be best served by some properties that I've created and want to maintain ownership over.
	www.b-independent.com /interviews/chichester.htm (982 words)

	Comic Book Resources - CBR News - The Comic Wire
		For a while, the notion of comic creators as rock stars was thrown around, which has since seemingly been debunked.
		Comics have so many more of their own special virtues but being any kind of a "star" really isn't one of them.
		I can be the same way when it comes to seeing independent or other media artists whose work I love turning their attention to characters I grew up with.
	www.comicbookresources.com /news/newsitem.cgi?id=4894 (5126 words)

	Comic Books, Comic Book Subscriptions, Graphic Novels, Trade Paperbacks, Manga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Moonstonebooks.com: Comics and illustrated fiction from the Dark Side to the light...
		Comic books, comic book subscriptions, trade paperbacks and graphic novels, manga, RPGs, collectibles and more at INCREDIBLE discounts.
		We are committed to being your online dealer for the best discounts on marvel comics, dc comics, image comics, archie comics and independent comic books from over 200 indy publishers.
	www.speedycomics.com /index.asp?PageAction=EMLPASS (375 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > Comic Book: The Movie > Printer Friendly
		More or less, Image was founded by a group of young artists and writers who had recently left their jobs at the big leagues to form their own 'independent' comic book company.
		Although independent comics had been around for decades, this was a bold step for the industry and a major turning point for the future of comics.
		He's a longtime fan of comics who's even written a few himself, and he dreamed of working in the comics industry long before he picked up a light saber.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/print.php?ID=9359 (1921 words)

	Dream Weaver Press Comic Book Publishing
		We started publishing a little over 10 years ago under the name Golden Realm Unlimited and here we still are just with a new name.
		As independent publishers ourselves, we know the struggle with having poured our hopes, dreams, and hard work into a product and almost not being able to bend to or survive the whims of a volatile industry who would much rather such publications disappear all together.
		For years we have been disturbed by the growing trend of disappearing independent publications and we are glad to have come up with a way we can help to reverse the tide.
	www.egoworks.com /dreamweaverpress/main.html (455 words)

	Corante > Amateur Hour
		Free Comic Book Day is being held in conjunction with opening weekend of Spiderman II (man was there a crowd at the opening the other night at the Buckhead Backlot, first run movies and beer are doing some business in Atlanta).
		Local participating independent comic store's are giving away free comics on July 3rd.
		Quite a few comic stores are doing readings, signings and the like with local illustrators.
	www.corante.com /amateur (3333 words)

	Dead End Days
		Much has been written about the “self publishing” boom of the late 70s, early 80s, but Dave was certainly one of the marshals of the charge.
		Before the Internet, vanity publishing, “independent”, “zines”, suffixing things with “garage”, Dave paid to print however many issues he could and hoped they’d sell… either by mail order, or by his driving around to every store he could.
		While I would like to report that the end came with the pomp and circumstance deserving of such an acheivement (with the adulation and recognition of the comics industry and a huge financial windfall for the creators) the truth, like many of Sim’s stories, is a more sobering subdued affair than one might have hoped.
	www.deadenddays.com /news/index.php?m=20040326 (1054 words)

	Vol. IV No.25 SURPRISES, MAYBE
		PUBLISHERS WEEKLY gave ALAN HOLLINGHURST's new novel, THE LINE OF BEAUTY, a boxed and starred review; this is high visibility indeed.
		It's the boom years in the UK and Maggie Thatcher is the PM; everything is gamed.
		It is more than just a personal memoir about an independent and daring Southern woman; it is an account of the golden age of the entertainment world in the UK and the USA, juicy as a ripe orange.
	www.calamusbooks.com /newsletters/4/25 (1972 words)

	digitalwebbing.com \| Comic News and Press Releases
		Manga in the US has become mainstream and an apparent consumer trend has developed where comic book fans are choosing media chain stores over comic book stores to purchase manga and comic book graphic novels.
		Comic book retailers will not order the manga because of they assume that fans will head to media stores to purchase the books instead of them.
		Founded in August 2000, eigoMANGA is an independent media and publishing company committed to developing, producing and marketing original American "manga," or Japanese-influenced comic books and graphic novels.
	www.digitalwebbing.com /news/030605-2.html (476 words)

	MetroActive Arts \| San Francisco Comedy Competition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		While Fox has seen a major shakeup in the stand-up comedy boom of the '80s--when a glut of hungry comics hit the road, vying for stage time on a crowded suburban nightclub-and- pizza shack circuit--he is encouraged by the trend overall.
		Yet one of the casualties of that retrenchment was Just for Laughs, a national stand-up comedy newspaper founded by the Foxes and published for a decade out of their Mill Valley office.
		From the Sept. 17-24, 1997 issue of the Sonoma County Independent.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/09.18.97/comedy-9738.html (895 words)

	BUZZSCOPE :: Jeff Smith Signing Bone At Midtown April 19th (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Jeff Smith’s Bone is one of the few undisputed successes to come out of the ’90s self-publishing boom, and, after ten years, eight Harvey wins, nine Eisner wins, and pocketfuls of other comics awards worldwide, it stands as one of the most successful independent comic book series of all time.
		But, the state of comics being what it is, one can well be the most successful independent comic book series of all time and still be almost completely unknown outside of the industry.
		Smith is embarking on a countrywide tour to promote the series, and Midtown Comics is proud to host him on April nineteenth.
	www.buzzscope.com /news.php?id=1796 (290 words)

	Comic Book Resources Forums - Johnny Raygun
		Though, thanks to free comics day, I got a few independent comics that I prob would never picked up otherwise.
		The Image and the Johnny Raygun comic are my two favorites of the free comics I got.
		It is my goal to own EVERY comic that has featured Erik either writing or drawing, not too much to go now...
	forums.comicbookresources.com /showthread.php?t=8321 (499 words)

	NEWSARAMA - eigoMANGA TRANSITIONS FROM DOT COM TO PUBLISHER
		With high-quality and compelling original comic book work, eigoMANGA as a core company has proven to become a valuable brand to the eyes of the comic book industry and fans worldwide.
		Now the company is primarily engaged in traditional publishing comic books and distribution through brick-and-mortar retail outlets, much to the approval to their audience.
		ABOUT eigoMANGA: eigoMANGA is an independent comic book publishing company producing original manga (Japanese-influenced comic books) and media works.
	www.newsarama.com /forums/showthread.php?threadid=6028 (541 words)

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