EPISODE 26: CONCRETE - STARS OVER SAND

Can you remind me what's special about Dark Horse?

Uh, Dark Horse, possibly most well known now for being the comic home of Mike Mignola, so Hellboy and that universe.

Uh, they publish quite a lot of licensed comics as well, but they were one of the earlier, um, independents that started in the '80s when, when creator r- creators' rights started becoming more of a thing, you know, so creators actually holding their own copyright to the characters.

Yes.

Dark Horse was one of the early ones that, uh, published creator-owned titles.

So it's where Frank, Frank Miller, after he left Marvel, went to Dark Horse, Mike Mignola.

There was...

At one point they had a, uh, an imprint of... that was called Legend, which was, I think, Frank Miller, uh, Arthur Adams, and Mike Mignola.

What's an imprint?

So it's a small collection of comics within the publisher's catalog.

Oh.

So they, they, they published it on d- it had a certain logo that was always on it, and it was, it was created by one of those three creators.

When they could have a spare time.

[laughs]

Yeah.

Um, but one of the first things that Dark Horse published, um, 'cause I...

it was probably easy to do so, was like a little anthology comic-

Mm-hmm

... called Dark Horse Presents.

Now, I could be wrong, but I think that's where Concrete actually started.

Um, so Paul Chadwick, who's the creator, um, has been create... has been doing the character since then.

Now, I know he's done, I think he's done some other adaptations of books, illustrated books and stuff like that, but Concrete, his is his c- creator-owned character.

Right.

So probably the best thing to-

And I'm here.