by Robert Greenberger
Fellow Westfield subscribers may have discovered Sean McKeever when he was writing Gravity at Marvel or later, when he did a nice run on DC’s Teen Titans . I, on the other hand, first discovered him in 2001. When attending a convention, I wander the publisher booths, seeking out interesting looking series, usually not involving spandex and super-powers. That summer, I found The Waiting Place at the Slave Labor Graphics table and bought a few issues. I was hooked by Sean’s work and bought every issue until the series ended just months later.
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by KC Carlson
Crime comics used to be the bread and butter of the industry, long before many of us were born. Beginning in the early 1940s (although newspaper strip Dick Tracy [1931] was an important precursor), these types of stories lasted until they were driven out by crusading psychologists, crazed legislators, and wimpy publishers in the comic book witch hunts of the early 1950s. They were gory, grim, violent, wanton, and celebratory of crime and criminals. Of course, kids loved them! So they were crushed in the name of protecting the young ‘uns – covered up with the postage stamp of the Comics Code, which was your guarantee of bland comics!
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by Robert Greenberger
Detectives Inc. cover
Two things were happening more or less simultaneously in the 1970s. First, there was the rise of the direct sales market which helped fuel the options for publishers. Growing out of the underground comix movement came the “ground level” publishers, several of whom were helping shape and develop the American graphic novel field.
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Our friends at IDW have provided Westfield with an exclusive preview of the new comic from creators John Ostrander and Timothy Truman, GrimJack: The Manx Cat #1. This is also the first book in a collaboration between IDW and ComicMix.
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