C.M. Ruiz translates the deeply strange story arc of ’90s Nintendo game StarTropics into a comic. ART FROM THE INAUGURAL ISSUE OF ‘HAIR FLIP’ BY C.M. RUIZ
Once upon a time, there was a Seattle comics quarterly edited by Marc Palm called Intruder. After publishing 20 issues of one-color, full-page comics on newsprint, the core artistic collaborators ultimately got more demanding art jobs and disbanded.
After reading The Stranger‘s pre-postmortem for Intruder, Ryan Tiszai and Simon Lazarus Vasta, two bartenders at Captain Blacks with a love of the form, took the baton and relaunched the project as Thick as Thieves. With a vow to be more inclusive in their selections (Intruder was considered a boy’s club), Tiszai and Vasta plowed ahead with seven more issues.
