Product Description: Deitch-a-rama! Gary Groth interviews patriarch Gene and brothers Kim, Simon and Seth in this massive, far-ranging feature on the cartooning family. Plus a gallery of and turn-of-the-19th-century cartoons by F. M. Howarth. This issue: Gary Groth interviews the entire Deitch family: Academy-award-winning Gene Deitch, whose wide-ranging career has spanned 60+ years, talks about doing illustrations for The Record Changer, directing cartoons such as Munro and Krazy Kat, and creating his comic strip Terr'ble Thompson; underground comics pioneer Kim Deitch touches on his father's influence, reminisces about the New York-based scene and outlines the evolution of Waldo the Cat; and Mineshaft artist Simon Deitch and writer Seth Deitch tell their stories in a fascinating, Rashômon-like look at one of the most creative families in cartooning...read more

Product Description: The historic magazine about comics, available to the book trade for the first time! Hard truth, subjective take or slanted hatchet job? Monte Schulz, eldest son of Charles M. Schulz, and a roundtable of Peanuts experts and critics probe and debate David Michaelis's controversial biography, Schulz & Peanuts...read more

Product Description: Tim Sale talks Heroes and his stylized takes on mainstream superheroes; Josh Simmons talks about his work and life in a sex circus; Gary Groth on Ralh Steadman and Hunter S. Thompson; vintage comics from Flintstones co-creator Dan Gordon; more! The Comics Journal #291 features your regularly scheduled dose of funnybook diversity and critical acumen...read more

An eighth installment of the acclaimed quarterly comics anthology spotlights the work of some of the contemporary world's most popular rising cartoonists, in a volume that features concluding chapters of Lewis Trondheim's 'At Loose Ends' and contributions by 2006 Eisner Award Most Promising Newcomer nominees, including Jonathan Bennett and R. Kikuo Johnson. Original.

A new installment of a series dedicated to the career of the late creator of Mad and Little Annie Fanny is an oversized, full-color edition collecting his complete Comics Journal interviews as well as representations from his early World War II-era stories, Prize Comics Western collaborations, and period at EC. Original.