spaced
Spaced
Print Mint (1974-76)
A couple years after dropping out of college, an aspiring artist named Jim Pinkoski began working at Comics and Comix, a Berkeley comic-book retailer and distributor run by Bud Plant, Bob Beerbohm and John Barrett. Surrounded by comic-book creators and publishers, Pinkoski demonstrated his exceptional illustration skills with contributions to Spaced Out and Lair of Madness in 1972. The following year, Comics and Comix hosted the first-ever underground comix convention in Berkeley and acquired 4,000 Golden Age comic books that helped finance future company business, including the publication of Pinkoski’s solo comic-book series, Spaced.
Spaced was one of the first publishing ventures Comics and Comix pursued in 1974, along with Jack Katz’s The First Kingdom. Pinkoski began working on the series when he was only 23 years old, but he was already a gifted illustrator with a solid command of anatomy and a flair for unusual layouts and compositions.
The series ran for three issues and all featured sci-fi/fantasy stories with occasional spiritual overtones, sort of in the mold of Heavy Metal, which wouldn’t debut in the states until after Spaced had completed its eye-catching little run. Every issue featured some hard-core scenes of sex and nudity.
