Paper Rodeo #19: Last Issue?

Rumors are flying that last summer's issue #19 of Paper Rodeo may be the groundbreaking publication's last, news basically stemming from this thread at the Comics Journal message board in which a potential contributor was told this to be the case. I'll try to confirm, but confirming with the artists involved can sometimes be pretty arbitrary. If the tabloid newspaper-style publication from various Fort Thunder alumni, those inspired, inspirations and fellow travelers has ceased to exist, that will bring to a close the way many readers were accessing this type of comic since many of the artists involved first broke into comics consciousness with an attack wave of mindbending, beautiful mini-comics in the 1990s. Personally, I thought some of the more ambitious stories in Paper Rodeo, particularly Mat Brinkman's, may have represented the best works of this type yet seen.

Something to keep in mind: as someone pointed out to me this morning, all of these artists are tremendously active, and it's not like one outlet fading from favor is likely to mark an interruption in their output, even if the vehicle or medium changes. For instance, Dan Nadel's publishing efforts seems devoted in part to making some of this type of work available in very high-end, beautiful books.
 
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