Ink Stains Archive

Ink Stains 40: Baycon 1
Posted on April 1, 2012 | 5 Comments
Let’s get in the hot tub time machine, back to when conventions were fun and convention program books weren’t 90% ads! Let’s bubble back to Bay Con 1, in 1975! Bay Con 1 program book, 1975 Tom Orzechowski, editor Comic conventions these days, especially the...
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The Horror & Fantasy art of Ken Meyer Jr. collected- You can help!
Posted on March 10, 2012 | 4 Comments
ComicAttack.net’s very own Ink Stains columnist, Ken Meyer Jr., is in the middle of a Kickstarter campaign to fund the printing of his new art book, Into the Crimson Light… and you can help! Ken Meyer Jr. has been writing for ComicAttack.net since its inception in...
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Ink Stains 39: The Collector 28
Posted on March 1, 2012 | 6 Comments
Back for another shot at the title! The Collector! Weighing in with John Byrne, Ken Barr, Gil Kane, Don Newton, Don Rosa, and more! Ding! The Collector 28: 1973 Editor/Publisher: Bill G. Wilson Those of you who have been with this column from the beginning...
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Ink Stains 38: Charlton Bullseye 4/5
Posted on February 1, 2012 | 10 Comments
If you like the fanzine CPL and Charlton comics, this is the installment for you: Charlton Bullseye! Charlton Bullseye 4, 5: 1976 Editor/Publisher: Robert Layton In the 1970s the “Big Two” saw that fanzines were garnering a lot of attention and love from comic fandom...
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Ink Stains 37: Anomaly 4
Posted on January 1, 2012 | 7 Comments
If you have read previous installments of Ink Stains, you know that Jan Strnad’s Anomaly delivers! Richard Corben! Robert Kline! Git some! Anomaly 4: November 1972 Publisher/Editor: Jan Strnad The last issue of Anomaly by writer Jan Strnad hits us with the one-two punch of...
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Ink Stains 36: Phantacea 1 and 2
Posted on December 1, 2011 | 7 Comments
If you like BIG Cosmic story lines, then check out the BIG ideas in Jim McPherson’s Phantacea! Phantacea: 1977 Editor/Writer: Jim McPherson Jim McPherson had big ideas even at the beginning of his writing career. Right out of university he put his creative writing degree to...
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Ink Stains 35: Infinity 2
Posted on November 1, 2011 | 2 Comments
Even early on, Infinity boasted a myriad of big name artists, including Berni Wrightson, Roy Krenkel, Jeff Jones, Frank Brunner and more…all this and more in the second issue! Infinity 2: 1970 Editors/Publishers: Adam Malin and Gary Berman As regular readers know from reading my...
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Ink Stains 34: Anomaly 1
Posted on October 1, 2011 | 7 Comments
Writer Jan Strnad started his award winning professional career in fandom with the beautifully illustrated fanzine, Anomaly. Anomaly 1, 1969 Publisher/Editor: Jan Strnad If you have read Ink Stains regularly, you have seen Anomaly 3 already covered here, and you know what a stellar cast...
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Ink Stains 33: Fantastic Fanzine 13
Posted on September 1, 2011 | 9 Comments
As you know by now, Gary Groth’s Fantastic Fanzine was one of the best of its kind. Issue 13 is no exception, featuring art by Dave Cockrum, Berni Wrightson, Don Newton, and more! Fantastic Fanzine 13: 1971 Publisher and Editor: Gary Groth It seems like...
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Ink Stains 32: Phase
Posted on August 1, 2011 | 10 Comments
The names alone will draw you in: Neal Adams, Mike Kaluta, Berni Wrightson, Tony DeZuniga, Rich Buckler, Ken Barr, Frank Brunner, Jeff Jones, Gerry Conway, Ernie Colon, Tom Sutton, Denny O’Neil…and more! All in Phase! Phase: 1971 Published by Phase Publications/Sal Q There were very...
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Ink Stains 31: Jeff Jones’ Spasm
Posted on July 1, 2011 | 4 Comments
On May 19th of this year we lost one of the best painters of our generation. Jeffrey Catherine Jones was an incredibly prolific painter and comic artist with an uncanny sense of composition, among many other amazing traits. This installment, we look at the artist’s...
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Ink Stains 30: 1981 Fandom Spectacular
Posted on May 1, 2011 | 11 Comments
It’s serious business, folks! Ominous lettering! Massive power beams! Geometric headgear! Waist crunching logo belts! We must be in superhero land! Fan Spectacular 1981 Publisher: Matt Bucher There were a few young go getters who saw themselves as the new Stan Lees of...
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Ken Meyer Jr.’s Top 20 Art Pieces!
Posted on April 28, 2011 | 6 Comments
Many of our readers here at ComicAttack.net may not know that Ken Meyer Jr., our Ink Stains columnist, is a well published artist throughout the comic book and gaming industries. He’s worked on comics and art pieces for numerous CCG’s and RPG’s like Magic the...
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Ink Stains 29: Hot Stuf 1
Posted on April 1, 2011 | 7 Comments
One of the best adult story zines of the 70s, Hot Stuf’ had a plethora of big names having a blast writing and drawing non-superhero hijinks! Hot Stuf’ 1: Summer 1974 Editor and Publisher: Sal Quartuccio Way back in the 1970s, there sometimes was a...
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Ink Stains 28: Abyss 1
Posted on March 1, 2011 | 14 Comments
Abyss 1 Abyss Publications, November 1970 If you like the great EC comics of the past, or the similar publications that came later, you will love Abyss! Abyss is composed of stories that were originally intended for the short lived Skywald publication, Web of Horror....
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Ink Stains 27: Mindworks
Posted on February 1, 2011 | 6 Comments
Brent Anderson did not only produce work for Venture, but his own fanzine as well. Welcome to Mindworks! Mindworks 1: 1974 Horizon Zero Graphiques/Brent Anderson I have a small confession to make. There are several reasons why I am profiling Brent Anderson’s fanzine, Mindworks, in...
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Ink Stains 26: Venture 5
Posted on January 1, 2011 | 13 Comments
Venture was a training ground and showcase for some big names in comics, including Brent Anderson, Frank Cirocco, Gary Winnick, and in this issue, Jeff Jones, Alex Nino, Neal Adams, Tom Orzechowski, and Steve Oliff. Venture 5: 1976 Publisher/Editor: Horizon Zero Graphiques/Frank Cirocco Venture ran...
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Ink Stains 25: 1970 Jim Steranko Portfolio
Posted on December 1, 2010 | 15 Comments
The ultimate stylist. Magician, designer, illustrator, painter, writer, and all around coolest man in comics. Jim Steranko. It’s all Jim, all the time…50 pages worth! Jim Steranko Portfolio, 1970 Editor and publisher: Supergraphics/Jim Steranko If you are truly a student of the comic art form,...
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Ink Stains 24: Reality 2
Posted on November 1, 2010 | 27 Comments
What kind of 15-year-old could wrangle Bernie Wrightson, Michael Kaluta, Reed Crandall, Howard Chaykin, Larry Todd, Kenneth Smith, Frank Brunner, and others to contribute to his fanzine? Robert Gerson, that’s who! This month, the fabulous, the entertaining, Reality 2! Reality 2: 1971 Publisher/Editor: Robert Gerstenhaber...
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Ink Stains 23: Fantastic Fanzine 11
Posted on October 1, 2010 | 10 Comments
Face Front, kiddos! It’s a Jim Steranko special and Fantastic Fanzine 11! Fantastic Fanzine 11, 1970 Editor and Publisher: Gary Groth Those of you that have read this column from the start know that one of my favorite fanzines of all time is Gary Groth’s Fantastic...
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Ink Stains 22: Epitaph
Posted on September 1, 2010 | 3 Comments
Gene Day worked in professional comics for a spell, including a great run on Marvel’s Master of Kung-Fu. But, before his big break came, he contributed to many fanzines, including today’s installment, Epitaph! Epitaph 1: 1975 Publisher and Editor: Larry Nibert There were a multitude...
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Ink Stains 21: Anomaly 3
Posted on August 1, 2010 | 13 Comments
Jan Strnad has written for Warren, DC, Dark Horse, the television industry, and published several books. But he cut his teeth on his very own fanzine, Anomaly! Anomaly 3: 1971 Editor and Publisher: Jan Strnad Writer Jan Strnad is probably best known as one of...
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Ink Stains 20a: I Will Be Back!
Posted on June 21, 2010 | 9 Comments
Hello everyone. I wanted to give everyone kind enough to follow this column a heads up. This week’s installment will be delayed another 7 days due to some events I have to handle here at home. I have a couple of great ‘zines I’m going...
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Ink Stains 20: Voice of Comicdom 17
Posted on June 7, 2010 | 9 Comments
Richard Corben burst onto the fanzine scene in an earlier issue of this fanzine, Voice of Comicdom. His style and skill, virtually unmatched, made him an instant smash. Voice of Comicdom 17: 1971 Publisher/Editor: Rudi Franke I remember when I first saw Richard Corben’s work...
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Ink Stains 19: CPL 11
Posted on May 24, 2010 | 10 Comments
Gil Kane. Alex Toth. Don Maitz. Rick Buckler. Joe Sinnott. Jim Starlin. Berni Wrightson. John Byrne…LOTS of John Byrne. All in one “little” zine. And that zine is…CPL 11! CPL 11: 1974 Publisher: Robert Layton As you know, if you read Ink Stains 5, which...
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Ink Stains 18: Always comes Twilight
Posted on May 10, 2010 | 4 Comments
No, this is not about the kiddie vampire movie. It’s a fanzine from 1976 with art by Dennis Fujitake, Gary Kato, Robert Kline, Clyde Caldwell and much more! Again…no vampires! Always Comes Twilight 1: 1976 Editor: Dave Dapkewicz Publisher: Fantagraphics I will warn you, I...
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Ink Stains 17: Graphic Illusions
Posted on April 26, 2010 | 17 Comments
Sometimes the best art comes in small – or in this case, thin – publications. Graphic Illusions boasted some pretty big name artists in its only issue. Graphic Illusions, Summer 1971 Editor and Publisher: Rob Gustaveson, Jeffrey and Robert Gluckson Graphic Illusions was a one-shot,...
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Ink Stains 16: Comic Crusader 10
Posted on April 12, 2010 | 17 Comments
Most fanzines were quick flash in the pans. Martin L. Greim’s Comic Crusader stuck around for a whopping 17 issues, and was the first to publish many great fan artists who later became pros. Comic Crusader 10: 1970 Publisher and Editor: Martin L. Greim Like...
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Ink Stains 15: Fantastic Fanzine 12
Posted on March 29, 2010 | 21 Comments
Gary Groth is known as a lightning rod in the comics community, and was the editor and guiding light of The Comics Journal for many years…but he had to start somewhere, and Fantastic Fanzine is that somewhere! Fantastic Fanzine 12, 1970 Editor and Publisher: Gary...
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Ink Stains 14: Nimbus 3
Posted on March 15, 2010 | 10 Comments
Many editors/publishers of fanzines used them as training grounds for what later became their careers. Frank Lovece did this with his art-crammed fanzine, Nimbus. This installment we examine issue 3, the final issue. Nimbus 3, Sept 1977 Editor/Publisher: Frank Lovece Frank Lovece, the publisher and...
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P. Craig Russell Interview
Posted on March 6, 2010 | 2 Comments
Philip Craig Russell has been working steadily in the comic book field for close to 40 years now. Though his first full comic job was an Ant-man book, it was his extended run of Killraven/War of the Worlds in Amazing Adventures for Marvel that brought...
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Ink Stains 13: Seraphim 5
Posted on March 1, 2010 | 12 Comments
Seraphim was one of the select group of fanzines that catered to those that appreciated the best artists in the business. The final issue delivered in spades, with stalwarts such as Al Williamson, Berni Wrightson, and Kenneth Smith. Get ready for a feast for the...
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