Holy Grail of OUTLAW Comics! Caliber Presents Issue 1: James O'Barr's Crow, Tim Vigil's Cuda & more

[@matrix_comix]

Wow! So glad you guys have no problem handling a 1,000$ comic like that! Putting all those slab people to shame 👏🏽⚘👏🏽

[@CartoonistKayfabe]

READ MORE COMICS!

[@dobidy]

My local shop in TO used to sell Caliber in shrink-wrapped bricks of 10 comics. Picked up a ton of good reading back in the day, including this book.

[@amirmalekpour4316]

When do we see Jim’s Halloween costume picture as the Crow?

[@raydillon]

I've developed a new goal. Making comics that you guys think are awesome. :D

[@raydillon]

@@kenlieck7756 Ha! I actually went by RAYD! when I was starting out, so that could work. ;)

[@garytucker3563]

Shout to my boy Ed for the Sunday morning Mid Atlantic TV lineup w/Exo Squad!! Man, sometimes it's crazy how just seeing one thing could influence a creative mind. By this time I was only knee deep in CLASSIC X-MEN, SPECTACULAR SPIDERMAN, and WOLVERINE. To see something like NIGHT STREETS (along w/ SENSATIONAL SHE HULK) just as I was maturing and getting into fit, muscular female physiques would have pushed me into drawing them much earlier than I did! Better late then never though, off to research those 50 cent dollar bins! Thanks Ed And Jim!

[@daranaraghi1991]

Jim, I like when you point out the manga influence on some of the pages of the IO story, given that Guy Davis did the layouts. If you check out Davis' earlier art on the Arrow fantasy series The Realm, you'll see it's almost straight up Amerimanga.

[@mattprather3140]

What a great look. Such a wonderful comic. Thanks for sharing guys.

[@danelsen1278]

My buddy Nate McDonough (creator of the awesome GRIXLY minicomics) once told me the unforgettable story about how he and Eddie P were digging thru quarter bins together one day when Ed snatched out this very copy of Caliber Presents #1. Ive scored a handful of “valuable” comics in this manner (most recent one was “Roadrash” - see Jim’s skateboarding comics episode) but never something worth as much as THIS!

[@poisonelvis]

that hand, when the Crow grabs homeboys head!!! damn!!

[@apexcomix3200]

Damn good video, Ed & Jim. I'm looking for Caliber Presents. I'm HOOKED!

[@klintfinley4505]

- As I mentioned in my comment on Pink Dust, believe O'Barr's style of drawing eyes comes from his late mentor Vaughn Bode. - I don't know for sure but I would guess that The Crow story here was drawn after The Crow # 1, which O'Barr has said he'd been working on since the early 1980s. The style of the first issue is pretty different from the later issues and this short piece. - The Mount Rushmore of Outlaw Comics depends on how you define Outlaw Comics, but I think the "big three" of the first wave of Outlaw Comics (as opposed to Underground Comix) were Faust, The Crow, and Cry for Dawn. - "Io" was also republished by frequent O'Barr collaborator John Bergin in color. You can get it as a print-on-demand book from Amazon. - The Danzig character also appeared in O'Barr's "Snake Dance" (published Blackball Comics's Monster Massacre Special # 1) and in John Bergin's Golgothika (from Caliber) and Wednesday. Wednesday is still in print, and Bergin is working on finishing and reprinting Golgothika. - "Snake Dance" was supposed to be part of O'Barr's abandoned "Gothika" series ("Frame 137" was part of this as well). The idea, according to Bergin, was that Gothika would include portions by both O'Barr and Bergin. Golgothika is basically Bergin's contributions. IIRC, O'Barr's Danzig stories for Gothika were meant to take place before Io, and Bergin's Golgothika and Wednesday both take place after Io.

[@DACOSTA78]

Robert Williams Kim Dietch Chester Brown Vigil Those are my “New Wave Outlaws”

[@szcorpioilluzion]

In 2013 Jim Bergin released a colored version of IO thru Stompbox 13.

[@portland-182]

Jim is correct, Vince Locke did some inking on Sandman - 42 and 55

[@p.chacon]

Doyle / Misfits as the Crow !!! Never seen that cover !! Thanks for the channel and I already preordered rEDroom .

[@TheTonyFigueroa]

I would cite Ken Landgraf as a Mount Rushmore outlaw artist. I'd also say Jack T. Chick is another type of outlaw creator .

[@Wastelandman7000]

And CFW did some fun stories. Tales of the Ninja Warriors is also fairly affordable.

[@drawrobot]

Guy and Vince would frequently table next to each other at Motor City. Ground zero for anything Caliber back in the day. That’s where I bought my one piece of original art (a page from Sandman Mystery Theater) from Guy. $40 well spent.

[@jawshhneedsin1708]

jump to 24:10 to hear Jim NUT

[@AlfredComic]

Mike Diana (Boiled Angels) has to be on the Outlaw Comics Mt. Rushmore, he’s the only cartoonist to be arrested and tried for obscenity over art, let alone comic books

[@johns9325]

That was an amazing issue.

[@violencehero]

LONG LIVE OUTLAW COMICS!

[@George-on5hi]

18:18 thats hardcore 😂

[@vonVile]

I have this issue.

[@chrisperry8220]

Man that Io art is soo reminiscent of mid career Barry Windsor Smith

[@snarferyasmr3739]

Exo Squad!

[@chalupacabra1727]

Faust came before Cuda. FYI

[@klintfinley4505]

To nitpick: Faust came before Caliber Presents # 1 (First appearance was in Omega # 1 from Northstar in 1987), but Cuda actually first appeared in a Sacramento fanzine called Access in 1985 (there's also art in it by Sam Kieth!).

[@thedailydanblog247]

Great video I do some comic book reviews too you're awesome

[@professorlaser7132]

22:52 She is standing at the sink in the kitchen talking about 'cleaning up the city'. #storytelling

[@davemills8193]

You are woefully uninformed if Richard Corben is not your first pick, Tim is in a dignified second place I'd say

[@JamesParatiiArts]

oh these guys know the history , they've done plenty of Corben talk up in here. I think "outlaw comics" is specific to the wave of 80's/ early 90's independent heavy black ultraviolent comics not so much the 70's pioneers of the form Dave. Jim and Ed have waxed lyrical about corben, s clay wilson, spain rodreguiz, kim deitch, crumb and their peers in here long time