DC Comics has just reprinted the first issue of Sugar and Spike, which is only one of the best comics they or any company ever published. In an industry where writers and artists have usually been forced into unnatural collaborations on whatever book needs a staff at the moment, Sugar and Spike was a rare, welcome exception. A very talented cartoonist named Sheldon Mayer created the book he wanted to do and then proceeded to write and draw it, all by himself, for around a hundred issues. We're hoping this facsimile edition will arouse enough interest to warrant a lovely reprint collection of the full run, or even of just a few more issues. It was a fun comic and I happen to think the industry would be ten times its size, and not at all in trouble, if more great talents over the years had had the opportunity to create and control the comic they really wanted to do. (You can read the first three pages of Sugar and Spike #1 on-line by clicking here.)