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March, 1996

Hiroaki Samura

March 1, 1996

It\'s been a year since I first had the pleasure of speaking with Mark Hamill and Eric Johnson about their groundbreaking project for Dark Horse, The Black Pearl. Despite the fact that they\'ve long since finished their comic-book script (the 5th issue has recently shipped, as I write this), the two writers have kept quite busy. In addition to the Read More...

Mike Baron & Steve Rude & Mike Allred

March 4, 1996

I came into the world on February 17, 1970. Born in Chiba prefecture (near Tokyo), never married. The reason I don\'t appear in public is that I believe there\'s no reason for readers to know that much about the cartoonist. What matters is the art. As for hobbies, I don\'t really have one. But...I have been drawing some erotic pictures of women, al Read More...

Gilbert Hernandez

March 4, 1996

Nancy Collins is a veteran in the field of dark fantasy and horror writing. Among her numerous books is the award-winning Sunglasses After Dark, which has recently been optioned for film rights and is slated to hit theaters sometime in the fall of `98. Collins has made a name for herself in the comic world, too, having taken the Swamp Thing throne Read More...

Mark Verheiden & Ron Randall

March 1, 1996

If ever there were a person to earn the label \"comics veteran,\" Mike Grell is that individual. The man behind Jon Sable: Freelance, Warlord, and the writer for so many issues of Green Arrow the listing of the issues is dizzying to look at, Grell has been in the comics business for more than 25 years, and at a youthful 50 years old shows no sign o Read More...

Arthur Adams

March 1, 1996

Jim Steranko: A Biography More than any of his contemporaries, Jim Steranko brought the noir sensibility to comics: in his characterizations (heroes and villains alike driven by alienation and psychotic obsession), narrative themes (cynicism, paranoia, eroticism, tragic irony, fatalism), and the visual style (chairoscuro, montage, symbolism, meta Read More...