Poopsheet Wants Your Comics!

By John Freeman on 6 January 2009

The Poopsheet Foundation, a US-based organisation whose primary focus is mini-comics and their history, from their underground/new wave “birth” in the 1970s to the current scene of today, is actively seeking comics collections both for use in their web site’s History Archive and for the Poopsheet Shop (the part of the site that ultimately allows the rest to exist).

Wanted are mini-comics, underground comix, alternative comics, fanzines, APAs and mainstream comics. “Generally speaking, we’re looking for material published in the 1980s or earlier,” says founder Rick Bradford, “but there are always exceptions.

“We pay in cash or trade.”

If you’re a fan of fanzines or worked on them either now or in the past it’s worth checking out the Foundation web site.

• Drop Poopsheet a line and let them know what you’ve got

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.