Wizard Magazine issue 9, May 1992, Kayfabe Commentary

[@funnypicturescomics]

Man...I had collected WIZARD for so many years...I regret ever getting rid of them...Your videos bring back so many memories of these incredible years of comic fandom...Please continue with these videos!!!

[@GnocchiTV]

Just recently discovered the channel. This was the first issue of Wizard that I bought. I saw it at the newsstand at the famous Farmer’s Market in LA on an art class field trip to the LA County Museum of Art. I was immediately hooked. I still have my Wizard collection in storage. I wish I still had my Comic Scenes from the late 80s.

[@TerryParr]

Been waiting for this episode. My very first Wizard Magazine was this issue. I loved it so much.

[@user-sj3lf1uw9j]

Love your content guys! I was knee deep in the early 1990's with getting into comics (Superman 75) and this is all so familiar. I saw it all rise then fall and frankly, I miss the 90's. Today, it's just an impersonal feel for some reason and I rarely buy a new one. I loved Wizard Magazine and enjoy re-reading them again with what we all know now. Your insights are spot on and this is an enjoyable time capsule into a classic time.

[@JimRugg]

I agree with you about today's comics feeling impersonal compared to the 90s. I'm not sure why that is. Maybe they're a little more polished or something. So much of comics history is fandom. And there's a quality to that fandom that I find charming. As comics have courted wider acceptance as an art form, we may have sacrificed some of that amateur/fandom/outsiderart/DIY/personal quality in favor of a more professional veneer. I miss that personal connection though. I'm with you.

[@ArtCreatorsChannel]

Greatly appreciate all of the quality content you guys have been producing!! Thank you!!!

[@dannycruz5446]

Simon Bisley and Neil Gaiman did end up working together on a short story In Batman Black and White a couple of years later.

[@santiagodelgado875]

A very good one too!

[@coreytbean]

Another great episode! I am not surprised at you guys giving praise to the Image founders for what they contributed to creators' rights & the modern landscape of American comics. I am a bit surprised at how effusive you are with that praise. Each of the big names of Image (Lee/Liefeld/Silvestri/Mcfarlane) wound up having some sort of black mark in their dealings with creators that worked for or with them. Nothing on the order of what we've seen from the large corporations, but still worth noting when considering their legacies in that area.

[@djdustat]

Absolutely loving these videos guys; please do the whole run!!

[@pjbrown4736]

Brilliant nostalgia with great running commentary. I was 14 at this period of time.

[@richdannys2906]

I recognized the name "'Alex Chun" as the writer of the IMAGE Comics article. He's a FB Friend. I know him as a California member of the CFA-APA (Comic and Fantasy Art Amateur Press Association), when I was still part of that group. A bigtime comics fan and original art collector.

[@WaltsComicBookChannel]

What a great show. So insightful, funny and educational. Easily the best comics-related thing on youtube. With great respect, W.

[@derekdraws]

Cheers for the Bill Merklein links! Another great episode, guys.

[@TomChansky]

I remember reading this on the bus going home from Jim Hanley's Universe on a Friday afternoon and seeing that bit about the SW prequels at the end of the toys article and almost falling out of my seat.

[@doolittle_]

Love that Ed's just like, "BAM! Gideon figure! BAM! GW Bridge!"

[@THectOrtiz]

My first Wizard magazine. I saw it on the stand in the grocery store and immediately picked it up because of that Bart Sears cover.

[@onamaska]

this was my first issue of wizard!

[@pjp9840]

Cover artist Bart Sears used the penname Mark Wittman

[@linknlog]

Paul Mounts is currently killing it as the colorist for IMMORTAL HULK.

[@KretchWretch]

He's one of my favorite colorists!

[@THectOrtiz]

The talk about valiant. I remember Wizard was so far up Valiant’s ass praising their books every chance they got. Having their books in that lame top 10 hottest books list, for example. I fell for it. For a time, I would get Valiant books because wizard praised them. I found out quickly how not good some of the books were.

[@blzimbub]

Fish Police. Hanna-Barbera Productions adapted Fish Police into an animated television series that was first broadcast on CBS in 1992

[@gmosphere]

Its gonna really interesting to see where comics will when the generation that comes up on manga and the works of people like Raina Telgemeier and Dav Pilkey start breaking into the industry.

[@Quiro26]

I have been fascinated by Valiant. I always wanted to know why Jim Shooter was fired from Valiant .

[@sark3153]

Really curious what the marvel UK title compared to aeon flux is

[@CartoonistKayfabe]

The Marvel UK title is Wild Thing: www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=96641 There's also a book called Widow: Made in Britain, that is only 1 issue: www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=244061 The similarities are mostly art style and it's not that close unfortunately. If anyone else has suggestions on comics that are similar to Aeon Flux, please share.

[@sark3153]

@@CartoonistKayfabe thanks for the info!

[@gameboy_colorful7078]

Rip dickie Betts

[@KmanScan]

George Perez would eventually bring his creator-owned book Crimson Plague from Event to Image in the late 90s as part of the short-lived Gorilla Comics imprint. Sadly, only two issues of it came out.

[@patrickmarkfort7480]

"If they like what they see, they may work you from 9:00am to 11:00pm!"

[@popfrictionsupr4478]

This was the first issue I ever saw of Wizard. I was 12 years old. Bought it at a local grocery store and bought every issue until it was cancelled. It was a pale shadow of it glory days when it finally folded.

[@ShogunZIlla]

Loved Death’s head 2 but I couldn’t really get into those other marvel UK titles despite trying. Funny story: At one con in NY I went to in 1993, I saw a Marvel UK artist come up to the marvel talent scout and show his portfolio. Artist said the marvel UK editors told all their artists: “just draw like Jim Lee!” Lol

[@wisewerethewords]

I didn't know that Piskor is a PA boy!

[@mothbot]

Was the Marvel UK book something like "Brats Bizzare"?

[@beebyart6053]

The Daniel Rodriquez Fan Art Wizardcoverwas an Alan Davis swipe from a Wolverine one shot called Bloodlust. I'm pretty sure the 14 year old me swiped the same image.

[@ichabodcrane6198]

lol you always pass by Shadowhawk. I'm starting to think you guys don't like him.

[@pulps2397]

Ed and Jim do America