REVIEWS


Escape Magazine (1983-1989):
A review by Web100.com


WEB100.com is your guide to the web’s best sites and resources, providing top 100 lists, top 10 lists and more to help you cut through the web’s clutter. The following review of Paul Gravett’s web-site by Levi Davis appeared at no. 66 on their ‘Indie 100’ list.

Get your comics news, reviews and interviews from one of the oldest, and still most respected, names in the industry.

You will find some articles about guys like Superman, Captain America and their many friends (or enemies) here, but Paul Gravett’s personal website focuses on a different breed of comics, such as: “The Leather Nun,” the best crime comics, graphic novels and manga. Gravett is the man to turn to for the best in underground comics. He has been covering the industry since the early 1980s and has written for major publications, though his best work may have been his own magazine, Escape, which only lasted 19 issues but still has comics critics pining. Gravett’s website is filled with articles documenting Superman creator Joe Shuster’s obsession with drawing his main character in S&M scenes, interviews with underground legends like Art Spiegelman, lists of the best British comics, analyses of President Barack Obama’s portrayal in comics and news about the most important upcoming comics events and books. Gravett is a legend who is still on top of his game.