Arcade (comics magazine)
It stood out from similar publications by having an ambitious editorial plan, in which Spiegelman and Griffith attempted to show how comics connected to the broader realms of artistic and literary culture.Soon after, however, co-editor Spiegelman moved back to his original home of New York City,[7] which put most of the editorial work for Arcade on the shoulders of Griffith and his cartoonist wife, Diane Noomin.This, combined with distribution problems, retailer indifference, and a general failure to find a devoted audience,[1] led to the magazine's 1976 demise.Each issue contained a reprint of work by a cartoonist from the medium's Golden Age, including H. M. Bateman, Harrison Cady, Billy DeBeck, Milt Gross, and George McManus.[8] Nonetheless, by 1980, Spiegelman and his wife/collaborator Françoise Mouly launched Raw, a "graphix magazine", hoping their unprecedented approach would bypass readers' prejudices against comics and force them to look at the work with new eyes.