medium's Golden Age, including H. M. Bateman, Harrison Cady, Billy DeBeck, Milt Gross, and George McManus. Each issue's title page contained individual self-portraits by the contributors. Issue guide Legacy Although short-lived, Arcade still has admirers. Famed comics writer Alan Moore said it was "the only truly worthwhile material produced during the 1970s". With the general waning of the underground scene, however, Spiegelman despaired that comics for adults might fade away for good. Frustrated with editing his peers because of the tension and jealousies involved, for a time Spiegelman swore he would never edit another magazine. 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. References External links Masters of American Comics by John Carlin, Paul Karasik, Brian Walker and Stanley Crouch Some information about the book Masters of American Comics 1975 comics debuts Comics magazines published in the United States 1976 comics endings Underground comix Magazines established in 1975 Magazines disestablished in 1976 Quarterly magazines published in the United States Defunct American comics