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Comico co-founder and publisher Gerry Giovinco and Art Director/Production Manager Geraldine Pecht reflect on the company's five-year journey from crude black-and-white self-published books through Black September to its current position as a quality color publisher competing with Marvel and DC on the newsstand. Giovinco attributes survival of Black September to lucky timing — no product in the pipeline meant no capital exposure — and credits Diana Schutz's production scheduling with Comico's 100% on-time delivery record since February 1985. Both discuss ambitions to move beyond the direct-sales market into bookstores, K-Mart, and educational institutions.

Group interview with the young founders and creators of Comico, a new independent publisher based in Norristown, Pennsylvania, putting out five titles: AZ, Skrog, Slaughterman, Grendel, and Primer. They describe how they started the company straight out of college with creative rights as its foundation, working eighteen-hour days in a suburban studio. Each creator discusses the deeply personal nature of their characters — Lasorda designed AZ after his father, Giovinco's Slaughterman is "the first transvestite superhero," and they speak effusively about Matt Wagner's Grendel, predicting he will be "the next Frank Miller." They discuss their upcoming transition from black-and-white to four-color printing, their emphasis on advertising, and their philosophy of being artists first and businessmen second.