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 cartooning - newspaper strips, alternative and mainstream graphic novels, international works, editorial cartoons, webcomics, and much more - in the world. TCJ #297: A career-spanning interview with Mort Walker, the creator of Beetle Bailey and Hi & Lois. Jordan Crane discusses The Clouds Above: comics by the famous 17th century caricaturist Thomas K. Rowlandson....

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 cartooning - newspaper strips, alternative and mainstream graphic novels, international works, editorial cartoons, webcomics, and much more - in the world. In TCJ #293: Zap artist S. Clay Wilson, Invader Zim and Johnny The Homicidal Maniac creator Jhonen Vasquez, Box Office Poison's Alex Robinson and comics from the Center for Cartoon Studies....

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 cartooning - newspaper strips, alternative and mainstream graphic novels, international works, editorial cartoons, webcomics, and much more - in the world. TCJ #296: Our annual Best-of the-Year issue plus Finnish comics....

In TCJ #298: the multiple-Eisner-Award-winning Brazilian twins Gabriel Ba 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 In TCJ #299, The Pirate and the Mouse author Bob Levin tracks down unpublished strips by Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, Art Spiegelman, William Burroughs, Tom Wolfe, Frank Zappa and many more.!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....

Since its inception in 2005, Mome has served as a comics McSweeney's. Whether exposing new talent like Eleanor Davis (author of the recent Stinky by Toon Books); featuring short stories by contemporary graphic novelists like Dash Shaw (The Bottomless Belly Button); bringing the work of international superstars like David B. (Epileptic) to American audiences; or introducing the work of legends like Gilbert Shelton (The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers) to a new generation of readers, Mome is the most acclaimed, accessible, frequent, and reasonably priced anthology on the market despite it's high production values and mostly color format. Upcoming issues include, in addition to those named above: Jonathan Bennett, Sophie Crumb, Kurt Wolfgang, Ray Fenwick, Al Columbia, Laura Park, and other surprises....

The historic magazine about comics, available to the book trade for the first time!

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. 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.

The Comics Journal #291's cover interview is with comics artist Tim Sale, the house artist for the television series Heroes. Sale's artwork has also graced prestigious mainstream projects such as Batman: the Long Halloween, Spider-Man Blue and Superman Confidential. The Eisner winner chats about his stylized takes on characters such as Spider-Man, Batman, Daredevil, Catwoman and Superman, as well as his earlier work on comics such as Grendel, and elaborates on the dynamics of collaborating with writers such as Jeph Loeb and Darwyn Cooke. The Journal queries up-and-coming cartoonist Josh Simmons on his disturbing and often funny body of work—his minicomics, his series Happy; his debut graphic novel, House; and his forthcoming book, Jessica Farm. Also in this issue: a huge gallery of kinetic anarchy from Funny, Films, Giggle, and other Golden Age comic books by Dan Gordon....

In TCJ #298: the multiple-Eisner-Award-winning Brazilian twins Gabriel Ba 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...