Search: Henry Vogel

Comics Interview — Issue #035 (June 1986)

Vogel and Propst discuss the origins and development of Southern Knights, which Vogel co-created in 1981 and self-published through The Guild before DAK took over as publisher with issue #8. They explain the conception of each team member — Electro...

Comics Interview — Issue #055 (February 1988)

interview Henry Vogel

Interviewed on the occasion of Southern Knights #25, Vogel discusses the book's six-year run and how DAK's involvement as publisher freed him to focus on writing. He offers sharp opinions on the b&w market crash (blaming over-ordering triggered by Tu...

Comics Interview — X-Men X-Tra (1993)

interview Dennis Mallonee & Henry Vogel

Mallonee and Vogel discuss Hero Comics' Southern Knights and Champions and a crossover event connecting them. Mallonee describes the business realities of running a small independent publisher and the creative philosophy behind building a shared ...

Comics Interview — Issue #069 (April 1989)

article The Last Word / Letters (Henry Vogel)

...s editorial by comparing gun-control logic to atomic bomb regulation; staff writer Henry Vogel replies, conceding that laws do not deter determined criminals but arguing that gun control would primarily harm law-abiding citizens.

Comics Interview — Issue #058 (May 1988)

article Up Front — Guest Editorial (Henry Vogel)

Vogel argues that publisher's rights deserve the same recognition as creator's rights, noting that his own publisher David Kraft and former partner David Willis hold shares in the Knights because without their investment the comic would never have ex...

Comics Interview — Issue #059 (June 1988)

article Up Front (Henry Vogel, guest editorial)

Vogel warns about the danger of expanded RICO laws that now include pornography without any legal definition of the term, arguing the government has effectively granted itself power to destroy any business selling potentially objectionable printed ma...

Comics Interview — Issue #061 (August 1988)

article Up Front — Guest Editorial (Henry Vogel)

A libertarian argument that true freedom means the right to be responsible for one's own actions, concluding that the United States, despite its reputation, does not meet that standard given its various paternalistic laws.

Comics Interview — Issue #062 (September 1988)

article "Up Front" — Guest Editorial (Henry Vogel)

Vogel warns about a Washington, DC phone line established for armed-services members to report colleagues with "foreign accents," noting that far more civilians than servicemen are calling it; he argues this is an incremental erosion of civil liberti...

Comics Interview — Issue #063 (October 1988)

article "Up Front" (Henry Vogel, guest editorial)

A libertarian editorial arguing that freedom is inherently unsafe and that attempts to legislate safety — whether through gun control or drug laws — are ultimately futile, closing with a paraphrase of Benjamin Franklin on liberty versus safety.

Comics Interview — Issue #065 (December 1988)

article Editorial: Up Front (Henry Vogel)

A guest editorial arguing that comic writers are systematically undervalued compared to artists — both by the price guide and by fandom — despite writers like Chris Claremont and Marv Wolfman being the sole constants behind the longest-running succes...

Comics Interview — Issue #066 (January 1989)

article "Lying for a Living" — Guest Editorial (Henry Vogel)

A short meditation on storytelling as one of humanity's oldest professions, arguing that fiction writers are essentially paid to lie in the most respectable way possible.

Comics Interview — Issue #067 (February 1989)

article "Up Front" — Guest Editorial (Henry Vogel)

Vogel argues that letterers and editors are the most overlooked contributors to comics, crediting CI editors David Kraft and Dwight Zimmerman with improving his own writing on X-Thieves and Southern Knights.

Comics Interview — Issue #077 (December 1989)

article "Up Front" — Guest Editorial (Henry Vogel)

A libertarian-leaning essay arguing that money represents labor and that taxation is equivalent to forced unpaid work, framed as a provocation for readers to reconsider what they accept from government.

Comics Interview — Issue #079 (February 1990)

article "Up Front" — Guest Editorial (Henry Vogel)

A philosophical argument that self-interest underlies all human motivation, including altruism, framing selfishness as a positive driving force rather than a moral failing.

Comics Interview — Issue #080 (March 1990)

article "Up Front" (Henry Vogel, guest editorial)

Vogel argues that the U.S. government's war on drugs is an expensive failure, drawing an extended analogy to a boy plugging a dike, and calls for drug legalization on the grounds that prohibition primarily benefits criminals.

Comics Interview — Issue #016 (October 1984)

article Southern Knights Preview Insert

...rode, Dragon, Connie Ronnin, Kristin Austin, and the Weed) with plot and script by Henry Vogel, pencils by Chuck Wojtkiewicz, and inks by Steve Kent. Includes a back-up interlude teasing the Cybernet subplot.

Comics Interview — Issue #112 (November 1992)

interview Dennis Mallonee

...I Group's Southern Knights, scripted entirely by Mallonee with plotting input from Henry Vogel, featuring art by Mark Propst across most chapters and a George Pérez opening. He also addresses the challenges independent publishers face with retailers ...

Search Results