Go, Bookmark: James Vance On Tekno

Tekno Comix was a line of funnybooks with other-media aspirations that featured bigger names like Neil Gaiman and Leonard Nimoy providing the genesis of a title, the idea/concept, while other, solid, mostly independent comics talent would execute them. With an eye towards developing properties rather, they were kind of a year 2000s company that arrived and failed several years before such efforts became a bit more common. They published from 1995 to 1997, although some of the Tekno titles had a second life with another publishing company, I believe. It was one of the more splendid disasters in comics during a period where everything shifted from "we can use comic books to build a minor entertainment empire" confidence to one of those flickering TV sets in a disaster movie that shows Marvel distributing itself, Image going with Diamond and stores shuttering across America before going to the emergency broadcast system. Because things were so board and because Tekno never really found the kind of traction in the marketplace that made them much more than a supporting player during the slow roll to comic near-Armageddon, I don't know that its rise and fall has been covered to the extent it deserved.

The writer James Vance was one of many solid comics creators who worked on the line, and he's going to tell his experience, starting here. If nothing else, Vance's essay is worth it for the extended description of the late Mickey Spillane's neck.
 
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