Go, Bookmark: Highwater History

The Comics Comics site is going to be reprinting some of the oral history from the catalog related to the imminent Highwater Books retrospective show. What's available through that initial link are stories about Coober Skeber 2, the infamous "Marvel Benefit Issue," which was the introduction for a lot of folks to several in that group of artists. My hunch is to disagree with the notion floated in the testimonies that Devlin was a brand-new or unknown quantity; my memory of that book is that it came out of a certain context, if only a "oh yeah, that guy" context. It wasn't something that was all brand new and seemed to come from Mars. I even remember wanting to see how some of the artists did their stories.

It was quite the scene, though. One of my favorite personal memories from that show is a prominent Direct Market retailer gushing about the Seth cover and how Seth should be convinced to do superhero work all the time and my looking at this man's face very carefully to see if he was kidding, because I figured he had to be kidding. He wasn't. Also, I think this proves we should all give Tom Devlin credit for inventing the free model of doing comics, as he really did run around that show giving away copies of that lovely little book.
 
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