Any 1980s independent B/W Love ?

[TrueDave]

The only comics I have kept through adulthood are some of the Black and Whites of the early 80's .

Any body a Fan of Bob Burden ( Flaming Carrot ) ? Dan & Dave Day ?

[Blue Meanie]

I remember back in the mid 80's cutting out of school and going into Manhattan on more than one occasion...especially my senior year...and going to Forbidden Planet (The one uptown in the 50's). I bought a few British import Black and Whites like The Adventures of Luther Arkwright (Bryan Talbot) and a sort of homage to Red Sonja called Red Fox. Still have them. As for the other Black and Whites...Turtles and stuff were just not my thing. Closest I came to a Turtles like title was Boris The Bear which was hysterical...reminded me of Not Brand Echh.

[Brazoo]

I'm a HUGE Bob Burden fan!

I also "Cerebus", "Love and Rockets" and "Reid Fleming, The World's Toughest Milkman".

[LadyZod]

I lost my love for Cerebus about half way through.

I loved the original TMNT back when they were a parody of Frank Miller's Daredevil stuff.

And who didn't love Robert Crumb?

[babycyclops]

I love Reid Fleming, Worlds toughest Milkman, there are lots of laughs in those comics! Also Love and Rockets, particularly the Xaime Hernandez stories- his artwork is so beautiful and his characters so human.
I also bought a few Luther Arkwright, but I think the stories sorta went over my head, though the artwork was lush.

And who didn't love Robert Crumb?

No one didn't love Robert Crumb

[johnnystorm]

Didn't the Days do the Sherlock Holmes illustrations? Wasn't too much B/W stuff I got into back then...I knew a guy had a second hand store where he sold back issue comics, and he got a license from Diamond to carry new stuff. Back then, you could get hooked up as a comic dealer with little or no strings attached. He started getting all that b/w Gerbils, Bears, Penguins, everything that people were buying hoping it would be the next Turtles and finance their kid's college education. Sadly, the trend immediately died and he rapidly went out of the new comic business, with boxes of unsold mutant animal comics.

[TrueDave]

Didn't the Days do the Sherlock Holmes illustrations? Wasn't too much B/W stuff I got into back then...I knew a guy had a second hand store where he sold back issue comics, and he got a license from Diamond to carry new stuff. Back then, you could get hooked up as a comic dealer with little or no strings attached. He started getting all that b/w Gerbils, Bears, Penguins, everything that people were buying hoping it would be the next Turtles and finance their kid's college education. Sadly, the trend immediately died and he rapidly went out of the new comic business, with boxes of unsold mutant animal comics.

I bought A Sherlock Holmes page from the Days back in 87 still have it framed over my Aquarium.

I can draw like Burden but hope to be as good as the Days with the crosshatching one day.

Mister x was a favorite of mine ( have no idea what it was all about though) Silent Invasion, Aliens, . . .

[samurainoir]

I have a soft spot for this title.






Mark Millar's first comic

[kingdom warrior]

Love and Rockets rule!!!

[Bizarro Amy]

I love Adrian Tomine's "Optic Nerve" and Daniel Clowes' "Eightball," although I don't know if they showed up during the 80s or 90s.

[palitoy]

I was 14 when the stoner clerk at the local shop introduced me to this book. I snuck it home like it was a porno mag. I haven't been quite the same since.

[samurainoir]

I first saw Bagge's work when he took over Weirdo from Robert Crumb, but the game-changer for me was the underground work of Richard Corben.




The Beguiling, Toronto's alt-comics shop opened around this time and the guys who originally ran it were willing to sell undergrounds to me.

This comic was the first time I realized that I could enjoy a comic based on a relative degree of realism without any kind of fantastical, escapist elements.

[The Toyroom]

Not a fan of Black and White comics...feel like I'm getting ripped off

[Blue Meanie]

I completely forgot about Chris Warner's The American. Didn't get into Concrete until wayyyyy after the hype died down on that book...same went for Grendel when that came out.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

Have YOU come to the right place! The independent boom of the early 80's is what really made me think comics were worthwhile! Some of my all-time faves (although not all B&W):

-Albedo
-Normalman
-Grimjack
-Army Surplus Komiks
-Mars
-American Flagg
-Area 88 (which was an independent on THIS side of the world)
-Judge Dredd (which wasn’t an independent on the other side of the pond....)
-Zot!
-Usagi Yojimbo
-Omaha
-Micra
-Those Annoying Post Bros

Don C.