During the black-and-white comics boom in the mid-to-late 1980s, Mark Martin enjoyed artistic and commercial success through traditional publishing methods, with his Comics Buyers Guide strip 20NudeDancers20 and Gnatrat, his satire of the Batman comics and film revival phenomena, as well as collaborations on Tantalizing Stories with Jim Woodring, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. In the early 1990s he assumed the position of art director at the doomed publishing company Tundra, which gave him a front-row seat for the eventual financial implosion of the industry. A refugee from the direct market catastrophe, Martin now releases his comics exclusively on his website. He joined the Journal via e-mail to discuss the role of the Internet in comics.

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