Hey Kids! Comics!

Latest release: September 20, 2023

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SERIES PREMIERE HEY KIDS! COMICS! takes its cue from nearly a century of turbulence and triumph, despair and drama in the comic book racket. Artists and writers, con men and clowns, ganefs and gangsters, create the foundations of today_s biggest entertainment business_or at least the tail that wags the dog. Some of it really happened, and the names have been changed to protect the innocent and guilty... ... although in the end, everyone was guilty of something. COMPARISON TITLES If you like the crazy behind-the-curtain candor of The Wolf of Wall Street and Sean Howe_s Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, you_ll love HEY KIDS! COMICS!

Hey Kids! Comics!

Vol 2, 6 issues · Jan 2022 ·

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Digging deeper into the sordid, seedy, and always-entertaining lives of the men and women who built the comic book business, volume two of HOWARD CHAYKIN’s acclaimed comic à clef tells the story of those who pushed the boundaries of the lowest common denominator—at their own peril—and those happy enough to ride the waves others created. Along the way there’s exploitation, Blaxploitation, custom toilet paper, death at the dinner table, and plenty more, as fans turn pro and pros turn bitter.

Collects HEY KIDS! COMICS!, VOL. II: PROPHETS & LOSS #1-6

Hey Kids! Comics!

Vol 2 · Feb 2019 ·

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HEY KIDS! COMICS! takes its cue from nearly a century of turbulence and triumph, despair and drama in the comics racket. Artists and writers, con men and clowns, ganefs and gangsters create the foundations of today's biggest entertainment businessÑor at least the tail that wags the dog. Some of it really happened, and the names have been changed to protect the innocent and guilty Éalthough in the end, everyone was guilty of something. Collects HEY KIDS! COMICS! #1-5

Hey Kids! Comics!

Issue #1 · Apr 2023 ·

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MINISERIES PREMIERE

A generation of artists ashamed of their careers has come to this, scratching out a living entertaining children who wonder why anyone would want to do anything else.

With the birth of the comics industry comes the afterbirth, a shadow twin that will sustain and occasionally sabotage it for generations to come…

Fandom.

Hey Kids! Comics!

Issue #1 · Aug 2018 ·

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"SERIES PREMIERE HEY KIDS! COMICS! takes its cue from nearly a century of turbulence and triumph, despair and drama in the comic book racket. Artists and writers, con men and clowns, ganefs and gangsters, create the foundations of today’s biggest entertainment business—or at least the tail that wags the dog. Some of it really happened, and the names have been changed to protect the innocent and guilty... ... although in the end, everyone was guilty of something. COMPARISON TITLES If you like the crazy behind-the-curtain candor of The Wolf of Wall Street and Sean Howe’s Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, you’ll love HEY KIDS! COMICS!"

Hey Kids! Comics!

Issue #1 · May 2021 ·

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They’ve known for years it’s the beginning of the end...so why won’t the damn business just die already?

Hopes and dreams are floated and crushed, and crushed again…but new blood, with new eyes, can see a new path emerging from the mist, a fog that veterans thought just hid one more cliff.

Hey Kids! Comics!

Issue #2 · Sep 2018 ·

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Secret Love. My Confession. Crime Does Not Pay. And you thought they were just comic book titles, huh? Art imitates life in an industry with more than its share of drama and deception, as a tale built around real-life happenings in the comic book biz continues to unfold though "art" may be pushing it.

Hey Kids! Comics!

Issue #2 · May 2023 ·

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With the soon-to-be self-styled greatest generation grudgingly called to war, it’s high time for those back on the home front to step up and fill in for the fighting men overseas.

But when the work needs writers and artists, and the only bodies available are unambitious halfwit hacks and talentless, overeager fans…will this be what kills the comic book cash cow?

Hey Kids! Comics!

Issue #3 · Oct 2018 ·

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Betrayal. Triumph. Sudden death. No talent, but blind rage will do. More adventures and intrigue drawn from real-world stories of the comic book business And if you want to know which are the closest to the truth, start with the most inexcusable people, exhibiting the lowest, most deplorable behaviorÉ and work your way up from there.

Hey Kids! Comics!

Issue #3 · Jul 2021 ·

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Comics is long overdue for a revolution, and it gets one—new stars, new talent, and new fans who can’t get enough of both.

And every new success story starts the same way: by killing someone else’s.

Hey Kids! Comics!

Issue #4 · Aug 2021 ·

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What’s the sound of a faceplant into a plate of spaghetti? It might just be opportunity knocking!

There’s a changing of the guard everywhere you look, and the only constant is that the entrenched can’t see it coming.

Hey Kids! Comics!

Issue #4 · Nov 2018 ·

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More trials and triumphs but mostly trials drawn from the way things really happened as a business built on cheap paper and cheaper ideas became the foundation of the entertainment world's modern-day ATM.

Hey Kids! Comics!

Issue #5 · Aug 2023 ·

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The 1980s births a completely unanticipated commercial and artistic renaissance…

…but Editorial has notes.

And fans who only yesterday were sneaking time on the school office mimeograph become today’s commercial comic book darlings.

WTF?

Hey Kids! Comics!

Issue #5 · Dec 2018 ·

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The innocent seduced and the credulous corrupted. Stories inspired by the way it really was, in a business where con men and liars stole everything they could from perfectly willing victims, selling second-rate stories of low-grade morality to an audience they saw as suckers, while living lives founded on greed and exploitation. And that, kids, is comics for you.

Hey Kids! Comics!

Issue #6 · Sep 2023 ·

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MINISERIES FINALE

Who lives? Who dies? Whose (frequently doubled) voucher gets lost in the mail?HOWARD CHAYKIN’s three-volume journey through comic book history concludes with one last look at how fandom—joyful, toxic, proprietary, take your pick—paradigm shifted from captive audience to creative architect in no time flat.And sure, some of it didn’t happen. But it’s all true.

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