Grendel Omnibus Vol. 1
There are a handful of creators who have steered characters, often creator-owned, over many years. Wayne Markley takes a look at a few of his favorites – Grendel, Nexus, and Don Rosa’s Disney Ducks stories.
Dark Horse Presents #1
Dark Horse Comics turns 30 this year! Wayne Markley takes a look at the history of the publisher.
Nexus front
by KC Carlson
(Author’s note: This article is a behind-the-scenes historical piece about the early – and ancient – days of Direct Comic Distribution – so it’s pretty much one for all the process junkies out there – and I know you’re out there! For the rest of you who just read these columns for the (alleged) jokes, you are hereby advised to skip to the end, where I put the funny stories about poison, cockroaches, soda cans, and my mentor in my life of crime that never actually happened.)
I started working at Capital City Distribution (CCD) in January of 1982, less than two years after the company first started. CCD eventually grew to become one of the largest Direct Market Comic Book Distributors in the world, and it was probably one of the most exciting and interesting places to work during those early days when the workings of the comic book industry were changing virtually week by week. (Unfortunately, in the mid-90s, the big comic publishers chose to go exclusive with Diamond, leading to CCD’s eventual purchase by that former competitor in 1996.) I had previously met both co-founders Milton Griepp and John Davis when my friend and employer Herman Shiltz and I traveled to Madison, Wisconsin, on occasion to help them unload and sort large collections (truckfulls) of comics that they had purchased.
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