The Comics Journal #298 - Softcover

Groth, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1606991469 ISBN 13: 9781606991466

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2009

Synopsis

In TCJ #298: the multiple-Eisner-Award-winning Brazilian twins Gabriel Bá and Fabio Moon tell us about collaborating with My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way on Umbrella Academy and Joss Whedon on Sugarshock. Perry Bible Fellowship creator Nicholas Gurewitch gives us the scoop on his BBC television pilot based on the strip. In TCJ #299, The Pirate and the Mouse author Bob Levin tracks down unpublished strips by Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, Art Spiegelman, William Burroughs, Tom Wolfe, Frank Zappa and many more.! Plus: Pearls Before Swine creator and 2007 Reubens Cartoonist of the Year Stephan Pastis. The Comics Journal is the award-winning print magazine and website exploring the widest range of cartooning - newspaper strips, alternative and mainstream graphic novels, international works, editorial cartoons, webcomics, and much more - in the world. TCJ is the perfect magazine for the widening spectrum of discerning and sophisticated readers who take home books like Persepolis, Fun Home and The Complete Peanuts

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Dean lives in Seattle, WA. He has been an editor at The Comics Journal since 1999.

Gary Groth is the co-founder of The Comics Journal and Fantagraphics Books. He lives in Seattle.

Kristy Valenti is an Eisner-Award winning editor and a writer. She lives in Seattle, Wash.

Review:

“Lotsa good interviews in this issue... For me though, the meat of the issue is the wealth of daily Skippy strips by Percy Crosby reproduced in the gallery section.”
- Chris Mautner, Robot 6

About this edition

• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1606991469
• ISBN 13: 9781606991466
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Dean Michael