Comics Journal (1977) comic books 2009

NOTE: Manufacturer's non-permanent "peel-off" retail sticker on front cover may or may not still be present. The Magazine of Comics News and Criticism. This issue, Brian K. Vaughan, writer of Y: The Last Man, takes readers behind the scenes of the upcoming Y film, TV's Lost, his award-winning comic Pride of Baghdad and the politics that infuse his WildStorm series Ex Machina, as well as his upcoming comics projects. Plus: Paul Karasik chats with Italian cartoonist Gipi about his Santa Maria video and animation studio, They Found the Car, Garage Band and Notes for a War Story. Also: John Kerschbaum of The Wiggly Reader talks brutality; Noah Van Sciver conducts a cartoon interview with Liz Prince; and should superheroes come out of the closet? Plus: Reviews of Zot!, Kirby: King of Comics, Chester Gould's biography, Terry Moore's Echo, The Herbie Archives, and the Independents documentary. Cover by Niko Henrichon. 208 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $11.99.

NOTE: Manufacturer's non-permanent "peel-off" retail sticker on front cover may or may not still be present. Interviews with Lynda Barry, Frank Quietly, Dash Shaw, David Hajdu and Mike Luckovich. Also includes a first look at Carol Tyler's new project You'll Never Know Book 1: "A Good and Decent Man". Cover price $11.99.

NOTE: Manufacturer's non-permanent "peel-off" retail sticker on front cover may or may not still be present. The Magazine of Comics News and Criticism. This issue contains a career-spanning interview with Mort Walker, the creator of the long-running comic strips Beetle Bailey and Hi and Lois, as he talks about a half-century in the funny pages. Plus: French artist Emmanuel Guibert on documenting Alan's War. Also: A gallery of art by pioneering 17th century caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and a biographical essay by acclaimed Masses cartoonist Art Young. And: Noah Van Sciver conducts a cartoon interview with Frank Stack. Plus: reviews, comics, letters and news. Cover by Mort Walker. 208 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $11.99.

NOTE: Manufacturer's non-permanent "peel-off" retail sticker on front cover may or may not still be present. The Magazine of Comics News and Criticism. This issue, the multiple Eisner Award-winning Brazilian twins Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon tell us about working together on graphic novels such as DeTales and Ursula and the anthology 5, as well as collaborating with My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way on Umbrella Academy, Joss Whedon on Sugarshock and Matt Fraction on Casanova. Plus: Perry Bible Fellowship creator Nicholas Gurewitch gives us the scoop on his BBC television pilot based on the strip, why he semi-retired the comic after its phenomenal success on the Web and in alt-weeklies and collections, and what it's like to achieve that level of fame by the age of 25. Also: Brutally honest Thriller artist Trevor Von Eeden on his professional and romantic struggles; Percy Crosby's Skippy rediscovered; Jiro Taniguchi's A Distant Neighborhood previewed; and Noah Van Sciver conducts a cartoon interview with Peter Bagge. Plus: reviews, comics, letters and news. Cover by Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá. 208 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $11.99.

NOTE: Manufacturer's non-permanent "peel-off" retail sticker on front cover may or may not still be present. The Magazine of Comics News and Criticism. In this issue: How Michel Choquette (Almost) Assembled the Most Stupendous Comic Book in the World - The Pirate and the Mouse author Bob Levin tracks down the El Dorado of comics, a lost collection of unpublished strips by 190 of the world's most important cartoonists, including Will Eisner, Vaughn Bode, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, Art Spiegelman, Arnold Roth, Bill Griffith, Ralph Steadman, Don Martin, Gahan Wilson, Jeff Jones, Guido Crepax -- even William Burroughs, Tom Wolfe and Frank Zappa! The comics were assembled in the 1970's by Michel Choquette (creator with Neal Adams of National Lampoon's Son o' God comics) for a book called Someday Funnies, which never saw print. Levin and Choquette reveal for the first time the whole catastrophic story of what might have been the comics anthology of the century. Plus: an Interview with Josh Cotter; Myron Waldman's Eve in the comics section; and Noah Van Sciver conducts a cartoon interview with John Porcellino. Also: reviews, columns, letters and news. PC/PB&W. Cover price $11.95.

Anniversary issue has great cartoonists interviewing each other: Art Spiegelman and Kevin Huizenga. Zak Sally and Jaime Hernandez. Dash Shaw and David Mazzucchelli. Ted Rall and Matt Bors. Jim Borgman and Keith Knight. Ho Che Anderson and Howard Chaykin. Also, Frank Quitely, Dave Gibbons, Sammy Harkham, Denny O'Neil, Matt Fraction, Stan Sakai, and Alison Bechdel. Noah Van Sciver conducts a cartoon interview with Mr. Fantagraphics himself, Gary Groth. 288 pages, PC/PB&W Cover price $14.99.