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Gary Groth interviews Gene and Kim Deitch in The Comics Journal #292. Academy-Award-winning Gene Deitch, whose wide-ranging career has spanned 60+ years, talks about doing illustrations for The Record Changer, animating and directing cartoons such as Munro and Krazy Kat, and his comic strip Terr'ble Thompson. His son, underground comics pioneer Kim Deitch, touches on his father's influence, reminisces about the New York-based scene and outlines the evolution of his cat character Waldo. Grant Morrison catches up with the Journal vis-à-vis his X-Men run, the ambitious "maxiseries" Seven Soldiers of Victory and how that led to becoming one of the architects of the DC Comics universe, until he scaled back to focus on writing the acclaimed All Star Superman. Jared Gardner provides a history and highlights from the work of Puck cartoonist F. M. Howarth. Dating from the turn of the 19th century, these groundbreaking strips were created before comics were formalized.