Arcade (magazine)
| Arcade: The Comics Revue |
Arcade #1. Artwork by R. Crumb |
| Publication information |
| Publisher |
Print Mint |
| Schedule |
Quarterly |
| Format |
oversize |
| Genre |
Underground |
| Publication date |
Spring 1975 – Fall 1976 |
| Number of issues |
7 |
| Creative team |
| Artist(s) |
Robert Armstrong, Mark Beyer, Aldo Bobbo, Michelle Brand, Harrison Cady, Oliver Christianson (aka Revilo), Robert Crumb, Kim Deitch, Will Fowler, Justin Green, Bill Griffith, Rory Hayes, J. Hoberman, Jay Kinney, B. Kliban, Aline Kominsky, Paul Krassner, George Kuchar, Jay Lynch, Curt McDowell, Michael McMillan, Victor Moscoso, Willy Murphy, Diane Noomin, James Osborne, Spain Rodriguez, Gilbert Shelton, Art Spiegelman, Lulu Stanley, Robert Williams, and S. Clay Wilson |
| Creator(s) |
Art Spiegelman & Bill Griffith |
| Editor(s) |
Art Spiegelman & Bill Griffith |
Arcade: The Comics Revue was a magazine-sized comics anthology created and edited by Art Spiegelman and Bill Griffith to showcase the work of underground artists. Published by the Print Mint, it ran for seven issues between 1975 to 1976. Arriving late in era of underground comix, Arcade introduced key underground artists to a generation of readers who had been young children in the late 1960s.
Issues
Each issue's title page contained a group self-portrait by all the contributors.
- #1 — in addition to pages by Griffith and Spiegelman, the first issue (Spring 1975) featured contributions from Aldo Bobbo, Robert Crumb, Kim Deitch, Will Fowler, Justin Green, Jay Kinney, Aline Kominsky, Paul Krassner, George Kuchar, Jay Lynch, Curt McDowell, Michael McMillan, Willy Murphy, Diane Noomin, James Osborne, Spain Rodriguez, Gilbert Shelton and S. Clay Wilson, plus a Harrison Cady reprint and a back cover by Victor Moscoso.
- #2 — most of the above contributors returned in the second issue. Charles Bukowski was featured in the third issue.
- #6 — with a front cover by M. K. Brown, the final issue (Fall 1976) displayed a section on Sex Comics of the Thirties, and included work by Robert Armstrong, Mark Beyer, Michelle Brand, Oliver Christianson (aka Revilo), Crumb, Deitch, Green, Griffith, Rory Hayes, J. Hoberman, B. Kliban, Kominsky, McMillan, Noomin, Spain, Lulu Stanley, Robert Williams and Wilson.
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