The Comics Journal #92

Special focus on underground comix. Interviews with underground artists and publishers Gilbert Shelton, Fred Todd, Don Baumgart, and Leonard Rifas. The past and future of Rip Off Press. Publisher Denis Kitchen on surviving. Plus reviews, columns, letters, and news. Cover by Shelton.Letters Blood and Thunder (p. 25) News Newswatch (p. 9) Interviews Diana Schutz, "Rip Off Press: Gilbert Shelton, Fred Todd, Don Baumgart" (p. 69) Dale Luciano, "Leonard Rifas: ...Before It's Too Late" (p. 87) Reviews Carter Scholz, "Boxers, Breasts, and Barbarians" (p. 45) Leon Hunt, "Is There an Editor in the House?" (p. 51) Dale Luciano, "Careening Conventions, Inspired Invention" (p. 56) Bill Sherman, "Two Comics: The Maturity Gap" (p. 65) Essays Tom Heintjes, "Summer Reading" (p. 24) Denis Kitchen, "Staying Alive" (p. 84) Columns Robin Snyder, "Opening Shots: Under the Gun: Death by Self-Mutilation" (p. 6) R. Fiore, "Funnybook Roulette" (p. 31) Bill Sherman, "Erosions and Exceptions: A Depressing Assessment" (p. 110) Harlan Ellison, "An Edge in My Voice: How to Make Life Interesting" (p. 112)