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Dark Horse UY issues from around 1999/2000 have a special "Maverick" logo, and some other people, like Sergio Aragones and Frank Miller, also had their own special Dark Horse "Maverick" logos. What happened to these? Did Stan and Sergio actually design their own Dark Horse logos? It looks like they did.

One possible reason that I don't know the answer to this may be because I took an involuntary hiatus from reading UY for a while somewhere around #59 because the only comic store near me closed and I had nowhere else to buy UY for a long time. I actually only "rediscovered" UY last year and started reading it again (I also caught up with the pre-Dark Horse stuff through the TPBs).

Here's the Sergio Aragones logo:

Jet_Jaguar wrote:Dark Horse UY issues from around 1999/2000 have a special "Maverick" logo, and some other people, like Sergio Aragones and Frank Miller, also had their own special Dark Horse "Maverick" logos. What happened to these?

This might have been answered somewhere else on the boards already. The logo was gone from UY when I started collecting, about # 65 or so.

Most of the Marverick creators (Miller, Byrne?) aren't doing much work at Dark Horse these days, so they probably felt it was time to end the brand.

Ok, that makes some sense. I'm not sure that anyone in the "Maverick" group other than Stan, Sergio, Matt Wagner, and Mike Mignola is doing anything published by Dark Horse right now.

A couple of days ago, I checked out a copy of Will Eisner's Last Day in Vietnam from a library (I'm doing a presentation on Eisner and the Contract With God trilogy for a graduate American literature class) and it has a "Maverick" logo for Will Eisner, which I thought was kind of neat.

I guess it hasn't been answered for certain (here anyway). Here's the topic where Stan announces the end of the label (I did a search for the word), but it doesn't say why:

http://usagiyojimbo.com/forum/viewtopic ... t=maverick

The way Stan describes it, it sounds like the "Maverick" thing was just to identify the creator-owned titles.