This is WAY advance notice, since this publication isn't due to come out until sometime this summer, but I'm just incredibly stoked that some comic fan publication is finally giving some recognition to Archie Comics. Here's a preview of the cover:
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And the solicitation copy for this issue:
QuoteSummer 2017 - 84 FULL-COLOR pages
COMIC BOOK CREATOR #16 visits Riverdale High, U.S.A., to celebrate America's Typical Teenager Archie and his pals 'n gals—as well as the mighty MLJ heroes of yesteryear and those of today's "Dark Circle"—with a look at the 75-year-old comics line's wildest characters and titles. Plus we conduct career-spanning conversations with two of the imprint's hottest creators: Brooklyn's own DEAN HASPIEL (the Emmy-winning alternative-slash-mainstream artist who collaborated with HARVEY PEKAR) and DAN PARENT (GLADD award-winning cartoonist and creator of the Archie universe's ground-breaking gay character, Kevin Keller), who both jam on our great exclusive cover depicting a face-off between humor and heroes. Rounding out the ish are our usual features to fascinate and enlighten, including the hilarious Fred Hembeck. Edited by Jon B. Cooke.
Dean Haspiel previously collaborated with Mark Waid on THE FOX miniseries for Red Circle, the only title to carry over into a second miniseries for Dark Circle.
In addition to having the print version of the magazine distributed through Diamond Comics, TwoMorrows will offer the digital version for sale on its website here:
http://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=98_132&products_id=1272 (http://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=98_132&products_id=1272)
If you order the print version of the magazine direct from TwoMorrows, you can also get the digital version as a free bonus.
This looks fantastic. Thanks for sharing!
I really enjoyed the Fox mini series it was loads of fun! Thanks for sharing that...
I should mention that this isn't the first issue of a TwoMorrows fan magazine to focus on the MLJ/Mighty Comics/Red Circle heroes.
Previous cover-featured issues in which the focus was on those characters appeared in:
ALTER EGO #82:
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A free 25-page digital preview of that issue is located here:
http://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=98_55&products_id=738 (http://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=98_55&products_id=738)
ALTER EGO #96:
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A free 25-page digital preview of that issue is located here:
http://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=98_55&products_id=878 (http://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=98_55&products_id=878)
... and of course, the major trade paperback retrospective, THE MLJ COMPANION:
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A free 25-page digital preview of that issue is located here:
http://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=95_71&products_id=1251 (http://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=95_71&products_id=1251)
The most recent publication from TwoMorrows to feature an article on an ACP character was BACK ISSUE #91 (Sept. 2016), the "All Jerks Issue!"...
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... which contained a 5-page article by Steven Thompson, "Archie's Antagonist, Reggie Mantle":
(https://www.archiefans.com/index.php?media/file/reggie-article-from-back-issue-91.2599/)
The traditional Archie humor characters (and artists) aren't featured in articles very often, which makes the above article somewhat of a rarity for the TwoMorrows group of fan magazines. That's why I was delighted to see COMIC BOOK CREATOR, which focuses its articles and interviews pretty much exclusively on artists and writers, rather than characters, having a major long career-spanning retrospective interview with Dan Parent. In past fanzines, I can recall a few articles and/or interviews with Dan DeCarlo, but this is the first spotlighting an ACP artist from the modern era (1987- ). He's long overdue for the recognition.
Super-Awesome
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