May, 2000
Doug Petrie
May 1, 2000
In the last twenty five years, Harvey Pekar has established himself as an extremely influential comics creator and a somewhat eccentric cultural institution. To be honest, the only thing really "eccentric" about Pekar is his ageless refusal to put up with much crap from anybody -- that, and his dedication to sharing intimate stories about Read More...
Diana Schutz 2000-05-01
May 1, 2000
Doug Petrie became a comic book writer by eager default. As one of the main staff writers of the hit television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he\'s had a great time helping craft the mythos of an irrepressible teenager named Buffy Summers and her all-out war against the legions of Hell. For all the glamour implied by the notion of writing for such Read More...
Dave Land 2000-05-01
May 1, 2000
Harvey Pekar long ago secured his position as the neurotic godfather of autobiographical comics. Pekar has been publishing his searingly honest comic book American Splendor for 25 years, and in that time his work has inspired everyone from punk upstarts like Peepshow\'s Joe Matt to best-selling comic-book writers such as Warren Ellis. American Sp Read More...
Tony Millionaire 2000-05-01
May 1, 2000
Come October, Dark Horse\'s relationship with the young and talented C. Scott Morse will come full-circle, as Morse\'s much-anticipated, three-issue Ancient Joe miniseries will be published by Dark Horse Maverick. Ancient Joe made his first appearances, to much acclaim, in Scatterbrain and last year\'s Dark Horse Maverick anthology, and this new se Read More...
Jane Espenson
May 1, 2000
For the last five years, one of Dark Horse\'s best-selling manga titles has been Kenichi Sonoda\'s rubber-burning, thug-whacking, pistol-packing action series Gunsmith Cats -- a long-running comic-book series that followed the adventures of two hot, young female bounty hunters on the mean streets of Chicago. Gunsmith Cats has officially wrapped in Read More...
Frank Miller 2000-05-01
May 1, 2000
Jane Espenson is a phenomenally talented writer who\'s having a lot of fun these days writing for the hit television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Her talents have also graced the medium of comics, as she\'s written a handful of comics and short stories for Dark Horse\'s Buffy line. In December, Espenson\'s newest comic-book endeavor will be hitti Read More...
Haden Blackman
May 1, 2000
In this first year of the new milennium, it seems that Mike Mignola\'s cloven-hoofed hero Hellboy is finally getting his due. By all accounts, 2001 has been a great year for both Mignola and Hellboy. Mignola enjoyed a nice amount of mainstream media attention for his latest Hellboy miniseries, The Conqueror Worm, and he watched the fruit of his des Read More...