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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN)
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Subject: re: Publications about comics
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Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 03:34:13 EDT
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> From:	pur-ee!hsut	(Bill Hsu)

> 	Has anyone been getting SPEAKEASY, a British (I think) magazine
> on comics? I usually don't get publications about comic books, but since
> this one was cheap (35p/70 cents) and had articles on Dean Mullaney
> (of Eclipse Comics) and Miracleman, I decided to pick it up.
 
No, I've never tried SPEAKEASY, because none of the shops in my area have
carried it (to my knowledge). I do get both THE COMICS JOURNAL and AMAZING
HEROES, though. I had stopped getting TCJ for a while, but I found that I
missed the bile and venom. I also get hand-me-down copies of THE COMICS
BUYER'S GUIDE.
	I also get MARVEL AGE, but don't ask me why. It's good for a laugh
once in a while, though, especially during the long wait between issues of
MYTH ADVENTURES and STIG'S INFERNO (and GROO THE WANDERER isn't quite enough).
 
> 	Speaking of Eclipse, I was surprised they were not part of the
> group that put together New Age Comics. Maybe they figured they were
> big enough that their own pamphlet would suffice. If nothing else,
> New Age Comics provided a list of weird titles for my next batch 
> of mail orders...

Good for you. If NEW AGE COMICS has spurred your interest in trying some new
independents, then it's served its purpose. Eclipse *was* going to be a part
of the New Age consortium, but they pulled out at the almost-last minute.
They gave as their reason the belief that Fantagraphics (who publishes NEW
AGE COMICS) would not be disinterested enough a party, or something like that.

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA)

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