| The Comics Journal Contributor(s): Dean, Michael (Editor), Valenti, Kristy (Editor), Groth, Gary (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1560979852 ISBN-13: 9781560979852 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books OUR PRICE: $10.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2009 Annotation: The historic magazine about comics, now available to the book trade! The Comics Journal is the award-winning print magazine and website exploring the widest range of cartooning - newspaper strips, alternative and mainstream graphic novels, international works, editorial cartoons, webcomics, and much more - in the world. In TCJ #295: Lost's Brian K. Vaughan, writer of Y: The Last Man, will talk about the Y film. Paul Karasik chats with Italian cartoonist Gipi about Garage Band and Notes for a War Story: also a gallery of 30 years of cartoonist Christmas cards. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Comics & Graphic Novels |
| Dewey: 741.509 |
| Series: Comics Journal |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 7.4" W x 9.1" (1.10 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Comics Journal #295 is chock full of all the comicky goodness that you've come to expect from our fine publication! Check it out: - Sean T. Collins interviews writer Brian K. Vaughan about Y the Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways, Pride of Baghdad, how a career in comics led him to writing for the hit television series Lost, and much, much more. - Paul Karasik presents a conversation with Italian cartoonist Gipi, who talks about Garage Band, Notes for a War Story, the Ignatz books and how he narrowly avoided a life of crime. - Rob Clough offers us a chat with humor cartoonist John Kerschbaum, covering everything from The Wiggly Reader to Pete & Pussy to why he couldn't figure out why his first editors hated him so much. - Michael Dean examines the page rates paid by the Best American Comics anthology series. - Noah Berlatsky digs into the comic-book closet and finds out what's hiding back there. - R.C. Harvey examines the life of Flash Gordon/Rip Kirby creator Alex Raymond. - Our comics section this issue: Charles A. Voight's short-lived newspaper strip The Theorist, in its entirety. The Comics Journal #295 -- around the comics world in 208 pages! Don't miss it. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dean, Michael: - Michael Dean lives in Seattle, WA. He has been an editor at The Comics Journal since 1999.Groth, Gary: - Gary Groth is the co-founder of The Comics Journal and Fantagraphics Books. He lives in Seattle.Valenti, Kristy: - Kristy Valenti is an Eisner-Award winning editor and a writer. She lives in Seattle, Wash. |