Sad to note the sudden passing of Drew Ford at age 48. There's a fundraiser right now to help the family through this difficult time.
I became aware of Ford when, from 2015 to 2017, he ran a comic book division for Dover Publications. This was an imprint remarkably aligned to my tastes, as you can see from that gallery of books up top, and moreover dedicated to delivering a quality product in cooperation with the creators, unlike most re-publishers of classic comics. That PUMA BLUES book has a new 40-page coda by Zulli and Murphy. That WANDERING STAR book has Teri Wood's original mini-comic version, plus numerous colour covers and prints. ATTU has a whole third unpublished book by Sam Glanzman. PALEO has several stories never before printed by Jim Lawson, including two written by Stephen R. Bissette (who also provides detailed historical notes for several of the books). I've written before about my "paper moratorium", where I avoid getting newly published comics with some exceptions for about the last decade. Well, for those years, these were most of the exceptions. All gorgeous books, and I was tempted by many more that they published.
Never was quite sure why the line folded so quickly. Certainly wasn't the quality of the work or the production. Anyway, after that Ford founded his own It's Alive Press, continuing to bring some classic work back into print.
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