The Comics Journal #264

The Magazine of Comics News and Criticism. Now revamped with more pages and higher quality reproduction! This issue features a cover interview with Ivan Brunetti (conducted by editor Gary Groth), a cartoonist known for his caustic, scabrous and self-lacerating comic, Schizo, the cartoon collection Haw!, as well as his comics contributions to anthologies and illustration work in such magazine as Mother Jones, The Baffler, and Entertainment Weekly. Underground comics are highlighted this issue in two major features: Patrick Rosenkranz, the author of the underground comix history Rebel Visions, provides a historical profile of the major underground publishers in a long essay based on interviews with all the participants. Second, his own book comes under the knife in a series of critiques of his own history of underground comix by the underground cartoonists he covered in the book itself! Plus: Darcy Sullivan on defiling the legacy of Jack Kirby; Harold Gray's Little Joe; and vicious smears. Also: TCJ's regular columns covering European comics, manga, newspaper strips, and other facets of the medium, investigative journalism and letters, all in the most iconoclastic and unorthodox magazine about comics in the world.News Newswatch (p. 12) Letters Blood and Thunder (p. 9) Interviews Interviews by Patrick Rosenkranz (p. 103) The Ivan Brunetti Interview (p. 134) Essays Darcy Sullivan, "They're Killing Jack Kirby Again" (p. 48) Kenneth Smith, "Nihilismus Funnies" (p. 183) Reviews Eddie Campbell, "The Silver Age of Comic Book Art" (p. 57) Ana Merino, "In the Shadow of No Towers" (p. 62) Noah Berlatsky, "In the Shadow of No Towers" (p. 64) Sean T. Collins, "Planetes" (p. 68) Bullet Reviews (p. 70) Columns Fun!Fun!Fun! (p. 50) Journalista (p. 52) Fighting Words (p. 55) Comicopia (p. 188) Minimalism (p. 191) Reprints Little Joe (p. 72)