Crew (comic)

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Crew, the first regular Czech international comic magazine started publication in 1997. It was meant to be published every two months (which worked out in the first year), but it started having long breaks afterward. Officially publication ended 2003 with Crew 21.

It ran for quite some time under the team of Štěpan Kopřiva,Jiří Pavlovský and Petr Litoš. But issues 17-21 were done by Vladimír Veverka. After the collapse of the original magazine, Litoš, Kopřiva and Pavlovský began to publish a new magazine - Crew2., 17 issues have been published to date published (first issue2003, latest 2006).

Name Unlike the English meaning of the word crew, witch means a group, the name of the magazine was a pun on the word blood (Czech:Krev) as the magazine wished to portray "bloody" comics alongside others.

Legend In the Czech and Slovakian republic, it is long held for a legend (being Czech,,the Slovakians have no such magazine of their own), being the only magazine to officially publish international comics after the 90's comics wave within the Czech republic. Critic has been given for not publishing home comics, which was redeemed partly by local magazines, such as Pot.

• Crew 1
• Crew 2
• Crew 3
• Crew 4
• Crew 5
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• Crew 8
• Crew 9
• Crew 10
• Crew 11
• Crew 12
• Crew 13
• Crew 14
• Crew 15
• Crew 16
• Crew 17
• Crew 18
• Crew 19
• Crew 20
• Crew 21

Crew2

• Crew2 1
• Crew2 2
• Crew2 3
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• Crew2 17

Explaining the end of the original magazine: crew 22 was meant to be and issue of the original Crew comics magazine, yet it never was published and Veverka sold the Logo back to the original team. Also, all the comics (except for Understanding comics's second part) were published in the new magazine.

The Crew under Veverka was visibly less popular for the long-time fans, although it had an own following.

The new Crew magazine has claimed legacy of the old one and there are some that claim that the new magazine also claims the long pauses between issues (to summarize:in 2005 5 issues were produced, instead of the regular five and the Christmas issue of 2005 appeared as 1th issue of 2006 and only issue so far, leaving the dates of two more magazine publishings unfulfilled. But the crew of the magazine must be credited, because instead they have published other comic books, such as:

• Spider-man:torment (utrpení)

• Preacher 2-until the end of the world (až do konce světa)

• Formerly known as the Justice League (Dříve zámí jako Liga spravedlnosti)

• Usagi Yojimbo:The shadows of death (stíny smrti)

• Nitro těžkne glycerinem (original work of editor Kopřiva(script) and famous, firstly in Crew debuting artist Grus (art)

• Comicsové legendy 13: Wolverine 4

• Torpedo: Sebrané spisy 1

• Spider-Man 3: Dokud hvězdy nezhasnou

[edit] External link

• new magazine's official page (in Czech)