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Southern Knights
Southern Knights is a comic book created by the husband-and-wife team of Henry and Audrey Vogel. It chronicled the adventures of a superhero team based in Atlanta, Georgia. Initially known as "The Crusaders", they were renamed the Southern Knights with their second issue due to Archie Comics' Red Circle imprint having their own group called the Mighty Crusaders, though an in-context explanation is proffered in issue #2. Jackson Guice and Chuck Wojtkiewicz both made their comics debut on the series before going on to greater fame with other titles.
The team's groundskeeper, Bryan Daniels, would sometimes don a high-tech suit of armor, designed by David Shenk, to help them out.
The superteam debuted in The Crusaders #1 (December 1982). The original creative team included three writers: co-creators Henry and Audrey Vogel and co-plotter/letterer David H. Willis. The team was filled out by Jackson Guice on both pencils and inks, though Guice would be penciling only on Southern Knights #2 and gone entirely after that. Guice's original design sketch of the titular superhero team was used as the cover to Southern Knights #2. The series was published quarterly at first by the Guild, a company founded by Willis and Henry Vogel for the sole purpose of publishing the series. Initially artists came and went in quick succession, but with issue #5 penciler Chuck Wojtkiewicz and inker Steve Kent came on as the steady art team. According to Vogel, throughout the Guild era each issue of Southern Knights took in just enough money to fund the printing of the next issue.
Most of the stories were created using the Marvel method: A 3-4 page plot was written for each issue, then the issue was penciled from this plot, and the script was written based on photocopied pages of the penciled art.
Vogel and Willis began to feel out of their depth with comic book publishing and wanted to focus solely on the creative side of Southern Knights, so after issue #6 they began searching for a new publisher for the series. They first submitted Southern Knights to First Comics, which politely rejected it. When Henry Vogel mentioned the situation to David Anthony Kraft, with whom he had struck up a friendship a few years before, Kraft told him that he had been thinking about expanding his company Comics Interview (which had previously only published magazines) into comics, and would like to publish Southern Knights. Following a half-year's hiatus for Southern Knights, issue #8 was released under its new publisher Comics Interview, a new bi-monthly publication schedule, and a new tagline: "The #1 Super Team of the South", which was Kraft's idea.
However, the success of the Knights was mixed with creative turnover. Issue #8 was also the last issue to feature Audrey Vogel as writer (though several later issues of the series credit her as "story consultant"). According to Henry Vogel, she gradually fell out of writing the series due to working a full-time job. Willis left two issues after, leaving Henry Vogel to write the series by himself. Southern Knights gradually became less oriented on long-term plot threads and increasingly consisted of short story arcs and single-issue stories. Wojtkiewicz left after issue #11, and with issue #12 Mark Propst began penciling the Knights. The art for issues #17 through #34 was provided by a number of artists including Propst, Willie Peppers, Marc Lamport, Don Hillsman, Wojtkiewicz, and others.
In the late 80's, the popularity of the team led to the Dragon miniseries (penciled by Peppers) and numerous Southern Knights spin-offs, mostly reprints. For instance, a "Dread Halloween Special" was a reprint of Southern Knights #14, and a three-issue Aramis limited series was a reprinting of select Aramis appearances from issues #5-26, with brief textual segues. The Southern Knights also guest-starred in Aristocratic Xtraterrestrial Time-Traveling Thieves (vol.2) #1. According to Henry Vogel, this was the Southern Knights' best-selling appearance, since at the time Aristocratic Xtraterrestrial Time-Traveling Thieves was selling better than Southern Knights.
In 1989 the black-and-white comics market collapsed, and as a result Southern Knights was canceled with issue #33 (June 1989), though a Christmas issue was published at the end of the year as Southern Knights #34.
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Southern Knights
Southern Knights is a comic book created by the husband-and-wife team of Henry and Audrey Vogel. It chronicled the adventures of a superhero team based in Atlanta, Georgia. Initially known as "The Crusaders", they were renamed the Southern Knights with their second issue due to Archie Comics' Red Circle imprint having their own group called the Mighty Crusaders, though an in-context explanation is proffered in issue #2. Jackson Guice and Chuck Wojtkiewicz both made their comics debut on the series before going on to greater fame with other titles.
The team's groundskeeper, Bryan Daniels, would sometimes don a high-tech suit of armor, designed by David Shenk, to help them out.
The superteam debuted in The Crusaders #1 (December 1982). The original creative team included three writers: co-creators Henry and Audrey Vogel and co-plotter/letterer David H. Willis. The team was filled out by Jackson Guice on both pencils and inks, though Guice would be penciling only on Southern Knights #2 and gone entirely after that. Guice's original design sketch of the titular superhero team was used as the cover to Southern Knights #2. The series was published quarterly at first by the Guild, a company founded by Willis and Henry Vogel for the sole purpose of publishing the series. Initially artists came and went in quick succession, but with issue #5 penciler Chuck Wojtkiewicz and inker Steve Kent came on as the steady art team. According to Vogel, throughout the Guild era each issue of Southern Knights took in just enough money to fund the printing of the next issue.
Most of the stories were created using the Marvel method: A 3-4 page plot was written for each issue, then the issue was penciled from this plot, and the script was written based on photocopied pages of the penciled art.
Vogel and Willis began to feel out of their depth with comic book publishing and wanted to focus solely on the creative side of Southern Knights, so after issue #6 they began searching for a new publisher for the series. They first submitted Southern Knights to First Comics, which politely rejected it. When Henry Vogel mentioned the situation to David Anthony Kraft, with whom he had struck up a friendship a few years before, Kraft told him that he had been thinking about expanding his company Comics Interview (which had previously only published magazines) into comics, and would like to publish Southern Knights. Following a half-year's hiatus for Southern Knights, issue #8 was released under its new publisher Comics Interview, a new bi-monthly publication schedule, and a new tagline: "The #1 Super Team of the South", which was Kraft's idea.
However, the success of the Knights was mixed with creative turnover. Issue #8 was also the last issue to feature Audrey Vogel as writer (though several later issues of the series credit her as "story consultant"). According to Henry Vogel, she gradually fell out of writing the series due to working a full-time job. Willis left two issues after, leaving Henry Vogel to write the series by himself. Southern Knights gradually became less oriented on long-term plot threads and increasingly consisted of short story arcs and single-issue stories. Wojtkiewicz left after issue #11, and with issue #12 Mark Propst began penciling the Knights. The art for issues #17 through #34 was provided by a number of artists including Propst, Willie Peppers, Marc Lamport, Don Hillsman, Wojtkiewicz, and others.
In the late 80's, the popularity of the team led to the Dragon miniseries (penciled by Peppers) and numerous Southern Knights spin-offs, mostly reprints. For instance, a "Dread Halloween Special" was a reprint of Southern Knights #14, and a three-issue Aramis limited series was a reprinting of select Aramis appearances from issues #5-26, with brief textual segues. The Southern Knights also guest-starred in Aristocratic Xtraterrestrial Time-Traveling Thieves (vol.2) #1. According to Henry Vogel, this was the Southern Knights' best-selling appearance, since at the time Aristocratic Xtraterrestrial Time-Traveling Thieves was selling better than Southern Knights.
In 1989 the black-and-white comics market collapsed, and as a result Southern Knights was canceled with issue #33 (June 1989), though a Christmas issue was published at the end of the year as Southern Knights #34.