Comments on: The Index of Pulse! Magazine Comics

By: Dean Westerfield

Dean Westerfield — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:22:18 +0000

Hey Marc,
Crazy to see my name on a list of such great comix artists. I always tell my student I got paid ONCE for a comic. Everyone says “Anthology” and I’m right there with them. It would be a great one. I’m still making comix with my buddy, Jeff, who did the Mormon comic for Classical Pulse: westerinocomix.com
Take care.

By: A HardPressed Disquiet | Jesse Bloggs

A HardPressed Disquiet | Jesse Bloggs — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:39:09 +0000

[...] I first met Marc in New Orleans as I was traveling cross country in the summer of 2002, where he was kind enough to let some friends and I watch the Lennox Lewis / Mike Tyson fight on Pay-Per-View at his house. Marc lived in Sacramento for a time before that, where he was a writer and editor for Tower Records’s now-defunct Pulse! magazine. One of the features he edited for the magazine was a music-related comics page that started with a series by a young Adrian Tomine, and then another by Justin Green, which was eventually collected in the book Justin Green’s Musical Legends, for which Marc wrote the introduction. The Pulse! comics page eventually featured many more artists, a virtual cartoonists “Who’s Who,” including Peter Kuper, P. Craig Russell, Jason Lutes, Carol Swain, Dan DeCarlo, Keith Knight, John Porcellino, Kaz, Jessica Abel, Matt Madden, Tony Millionaire, and many, many more; the complete list can be seen here. [...]

By: Marc Weidenbaum

Marc Weidenbaum — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:17:06 +0000

Thanks, Alec. Great to hear from you.

By: Alec Stevens

Alec Stevens — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:38:16 +0000

It was a pleasure to do editorial illustrations, portraits, spot illustrations, and the occasional comic strip for Pulse! and Classical Pulse!, Marc. You were a fine editor to work with; all the best to you!

By: Danny Hellman

Danny Hellman — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:09:36 +0000

Some of the most fun I’ve ever had illustrating was when I had a regular illo gig for PULSE. A lot of mags have folded over the last decade, but PULSE is one of the few I actually miss.

By: Marc Weidenbaum

Marc Weidenbaum — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:04:12 +0000

@Langell: Thanks very much. Nice to have met you, too.

@Heidi M: Yeah, Justin Green’s Musical Legends was collected by Last Gasp (I wrote the afterward). It’s a great collection. That cover was, I believe, a pre-publication draft, for promotional purposes; the final, published one is an original drawing.

By: Heidi M.

Heidi M. — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:05:03 +0000

I think the Justin green stuff was collected. I had this book floating around for a while but can’t seme to lay my hand on it now.

http://www.amazon.com/Musical-Legends-Monumental-Memories/dp/0867195878/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239645765&sr=8-2

By: James Langdell

James Langdell — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:02:06 +0000

Thank you for this list. I’m glad I got a chance meet you and thank you at APE last year for putting such great work on Tower’s pages. Yes, I’d buy a collection to stack next to my copy of the Musical Legends book.

By: Marc Weidenbaum

Marc Weidenbaum — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:46:30 +0000

Excellent to hear from you, man — glad to contribute to some good memories.

By: Tony Gleeson

Tony Gleeson — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:03:44 +0000

Wow, what a kick to stumble over this! Marc, I remember our phone conversation when I sent you a copy of the comic page that ultimately wound up in Classical Pulse! in 1996. That– and its “mother ship,” Pulse!– were pretty cool magazines from start to finish.