''Back Issue!'' is an American magazine published by
TwoMorrows Publishing
TwoMorrows Publishing is a publisher of magazines about comic books, founded in 1994 by John and Pam Morrow out of their small advertising agency in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Its products also include books and DVDs.
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, based in
Raleigh, North Carolina
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. Founded in 2003 and published eight times yearly, it features articles and art about
comic books
A comic book, comic-magazine, or simply comic is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panel (comics), panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by descriptive prose and wri ...
from the 1970s to the present.
Edited by former comics writer and editor Michael Eury, the magazine was conceived as a replacement for ''
Comic Book Artist
A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comics illustrators/artists in that they produce both the literary ...
'', which editor and owner Jon B. Cooke had taken from TwoMorrows to a different publishing house in 2002.
Writers for the series include Mark Arnold, Michael Aushenker,
Glenn Greenberg
Glenn Greenberg is an American journalist and comic book and fiction writer. At the beginning of his career, he became a regular Marvel Comics writer, penning stories for ''The Spectacular Spider-Man'', '' The Rampaging Hulk'', '' The Silver Surfe ...
Andy Mangels
Andy Mangels (born December 2, 1966) is an American science fiction author who has written novels, comic books, and magazine articles, and produced DVD collections, mostly focusing on media in popular culture. As an openly gay man,Richard A. Scott.
''Back Issue!'' was a shared winner of the 2019
Eisner Award
The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, are awards for creative achievement in American comic books. They are regarded as the most prestigious and significant awards in the comic industry and often referred ...