Comics Journal #311 back
Kate Beaton, Gary Groth, Kristy Valenti, Austin English & Kate Beaton
Date Released: Expected 28-May-25
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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 âShelton Hagiographyâ by French cartoonist Pic; and an interview with musician and cartoonist Jeffrey Lewis (12 Crass Songs, Fuff). Plus: âAn Imaginary Publication Cover Galleryâ 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 Iannoneâs work as comics, and much more.
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