Tag Archive | "Steve Bissette"

Dave Sim & Bissette – the epic letter fest concludes….

Sunday, January 23, 2011

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I covered Steve Bissette and Dave Sim’s continuing correspondence here on the blog a few weeks ago. Since then it’s been continuing in the same, highly entertaining and enlightening fashion and has, as far as we know finished (although you can never really tell with Sim). The final post (#15) on the subject is at [...]

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Bissette & Sim having a little chat….

Sunday, January 9, 2011

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Actually, considering it’s up to 9 parts already (all parts linked here), each one filled with something interesting, and is showing little signs of stopping, it’s hardly “a little chat”. Dave Sim, as is his way, is doing it all through fax. Steve Bissette is then putting the faxes and his responses and continuations up [...]

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Steve Bissette’s Forgotten Comic Wars concludes

Sunday, April 4, 2010

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(Steve Bissette and his last Swamp Thing cover for DC, Feb 1987: note the “suggested for mature readers” label) Steve Bissette’s most enjoyable and informative series of posts about the comic ratings troubles of the 80s concludes over at his blog with “How Angry Freelancers Made It Possible for A New Mainstream Comics Era (Including [...]

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Steve Bissette’s forgotten comic wars

Saturday, March 20, 2010

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Over on his blog Steven Bissette, artist on Swamp Thing, Tyrant and publisher of Taboo is currently chronicling the trials and tribulations of the comic industry circa 1986. It’s fascinating stuff from an era when a lot of important things were just beginning to develop across the industry. Bissette’s subtitle to the series of posts [...]

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Three Interviews for your Sunday entertainment: Bissette, Talbot & Seth.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

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Bissette, Talbot & Seth – possibly the strangest legal firm in the world? It’s Sunday morning and you have nothing to do all day. Well, how about spending a while with three fantastic interviews: Steve Bissette: The artist and publisher talks about the lifetime of work, the bad days at DC, Swamp Thing, publishing Taboo, [...]

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