Arcade (comics magazine)

Not to be confused with Arcade Comics.
Arcade: The Comics Revue
Arcade #1, artwork by R. Crumb.
Publication information
PublisherPrint Mint
ScheduleQuarterly
FormatOversize
GenreUnderground
Publication dateSpring 1975 – Fall 1976
No. of issues7
Creative team
Created byArt Spiegelman & Bill Griffith
Written bySteve Anker, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Samuel Coleridge, David Cohen, George DiCaprio, Will Fowler, J. Hoberman, Paul Krassner, Jane Lynch, Michael Reynolds
Artist(s)Robert Armstrong, Mark Beyer, Michele Brand, M. K. Brown, Harrison Cady, Oliver Christianson (aka Revilo), Robert Crumb, Kim Deitch, Justin Green, Bill Griffith, Geoffrey Hayes, Rory Hayes, Gerald Jablonski, Jay Kinney, B. Kliban, Aline Kominsky, George Kuchar, Bill Lynch, Jay Lynch, Curt McDowell, Michael McMillan, Victor Moscoso, Willy Murphy, Diane Noomin, James Osborne, Spain Rodriguez, Gilbert Shelton, Art Spiegelman, Lulu Stanley, Robert Williams, S. Clay Wilson
Editor(s)Art Spiegelman & Bill Griffith

Arcade: The Comics Revue is a magazine-sized comics anthology created and edited by cartoonists Art Spiegelman and Bill Griffith to showcase underground comix. Published quarterly by the Print Mint, it ran for seven issues between 1975 and 1976. Arriving late in the underground era, Arcade "was conceived as a 'comics magazine for adults' that would showcase the 'best of the old and the best of the new comics'".[1] Many observers credit it with paving the way for the Spiegelman-edited anthology Raw, the flagship publication of the 1980s alternative comics movement.

Well-known creators who contributed to the anthology include R. Crumb, Kim Deitch, Jay Kinney, Aline Kominsky, Jay Lynch, Spain Rodriguez, Gilbert Shelton and S. Clay Wilson.[2]

  1. ^ Fox, M. Steven. "Arcade, The Comics Revue", ComixJoint. Accessed June 19, 2018.
  2. ^ Sacks, Jason; Dallas, Keith (2014). American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1970s. TwoMorrows Publishing. pp. 155–156. ISBN 978-1605490564.