| Posted: 26 July 2009 at 4:36pm | IP Logged | 10
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I remember Boris the Bear and Southern Knights. There seemed to be an entire world opening up for the first time in those years. Then the whole speculator boom and crash thing happened and none of those characters or the creative teams behind them stuck around. Admittedly, you still have small publishers today, but the genres are more or less stuck on a few staples (the demonic "bad girl", the zombie fighter, dark-n-gritty superheroes, etc).
One of the old indie publishers that I used to follow a little bit back then was an outfit called Comico. They had an office up in Norristown, Pennsylvania, so that made 'em local for me. They published the comic adaptations of the Robotech cartoon airing during the time, as well as a few others. Unfortunately, they went belly-up after someone from out of town took over from the founders and moved the offices out to Chicago. Some of the artists who worked there still come to local conventions every now and then.
An artist that I remember from back then as a guy by the name of Reggie Byers, who had published a ninja-themed mini titled Shuriken, basically one of the early manifestations of the "bad girl" heroine. He had worked on some of the Robotech titles for Comico, too. Since then, I've heard from one of his colleagues that he had a religious "rebirth" and is now working on Christian-themed comics (though I have yet to see them).
Anyway, that's my recollection of the era.
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