Ink Stains 20a: I Will Be Back!

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…

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Ink Stains 20: Voice of Comicdom 17

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…

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Ink Stains 19: CPL 11

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…

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Ink Stains 18: Always comes Twilight

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!…

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Ink Stains 17: Graphic Illusions

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…

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Ink Stains 16: Comic Crusader 10

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…

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Ink Stains 14: Nimbus 3

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,…

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