THE COMICS JOURNAL TP 311

This issue features an in-depth, personal conversation between Kate Beaton and Sarah Glidden about depicting history, humor, and social issues in comics form. a profile of Gilbert Shelton. an interview with musician and cartoonist Jeffrey Lewis and much more. Featured in this issue: An in-depth, personal conversation between Kate Beaton (Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Hark! A Vagrant) and Sarah Glidden (Rolling Blackouts), from the Pizza Island comics collective, about depicting history, humor, and social issues in comics form. a profile of Gilbert Shelton (Zap, Fabulous Furry Freak Bros.), which includes a never-before-published-in-English 'Shelton Hagiography' by French cartoonist Pic. and an interview with musician and cartoonist Jeffrey Lewis (12 Crass Songs, Fuff). Plus: 'An Imaginary Publication Cover Gallery' by Marc Bell (Hot Potatoe). a new manga column that puts classic and contemporary manga (Kamen Rider and Hunter X Hunter) in concert. a publishing roundtable on how to grow the adult audience for comics. a deep dive into an underdiscussed Charlton cartoonist, Enrique Nieto. a case for fine artist Dorothy Iannone's work as comics, and much more.