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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 cartooningnewspaper strips, alternative and mainstream graphic novels, international works, editorial cartoons, webcomics, and much morein the world. Treating the medium as an art form, TCJ is the magazine of record for one of the fastest-growing categories in the book industry, as well as an area of increasing academic interest. TCJ is the perfect magazine for the widening spectrum of discerning and sophisticated readers who take home such books as Persepolis, Fun Home and The Complete Peanuts. Ever since its debut in 1976, The Comics Journal has promoted a wider range of comics than any magazine in the field, and bookstores that carry The Comics Journal routinely find out that the lively, in-depth magazine guides customers to new discoveries.
In TCJ #293: The Comics Journal interviews Zap artist S. Clay Wilson, best known for his panoramas of sex and violence involving lesbian bikers, zombie pirates and a Checkered Demon. Another mastermind of unsavory comics, Jhonen Vasquez, talks about creating the animated Invader Zim and the goth-comics fave Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, and provides a glimpse of projects on the horizon. Alex Robinson, the Harvey-and-Eisner-winning cartoonist, will discuss his graphic novels Box Office Poison, Tricked and Too Cool to Be Forgotten. And a special back-to-school section will feature a gallery of undiscovered potential comics masterpieces by students from the Center for Cartoon Studies.
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Also in this issue: Box Office Poison author Alex Robinson talks comics with Tom Crippen; Noah Van Sciver presents a cartoon interview with The Poor Bastard creator Joe Matt; an extensive comics section featuring the Center for Cartoon Studies 2008 graduating class; R. C. Harvey reports from the annual gathering of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists; Dan Vado remembers the beginning of California s Alternative Press Expo; a preview of Yuichi Yokoyama s forthcoming book Travel; and much, much more. "
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Bob Levin gets drunk with cartoonist S. Clay Wilson; Alex Robinson: from hatchet job to critical acclaim; reviews of Ware, Hergé, Huizenga, Spiegelman, Hernandez and more; plus Joe Matt and the CCS Class of 2008.
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Buckle up for a wild ride, as Bob Levin interviews underground-comix legend S. Clay Wilson and survives to tell the tale. This definitive profile covers Wilson's career and artistic philosophies -- but more to the point, it's a conversation with S. Clay Wilson, which means that it's anybody's guess what he'll say next. This is, as they say, one for the books. Also in this issue: author Alex Robinson talks comics with Tom Crippen; Noah Van Sciver presents a cartoon interview with creator Joe Matt; an extensive comics section featuring the Center for Cartoon Studies' 2008 graduating class; R. C. Harvey reports from the annual gathering of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists; Dan Vado remembers the beginning of California's Alternative Press Expo; a preview of Yuichi Yokoyama's forthcoming book ; and much, much more.
About the Author
Mike Dean lives in Seattle and is an Editor at Fantagraphics.From 2007-2012, Kristy Valenti wrote a column about independent comics and graphic novels for ComiXology. As an Editorial Associate at Fantagraphics Books, Inc., she's edited The Comics Journal, Sketching Guantanamo, Listen, Whitey!, and Man of Rock, among others titles. She lives in Seattle, Wash.Gary Groth