Edited by Mike Dean & Kristy Valenti; Gary Groth, Executive Editor
Format:
Magazine
Pages:
288
Dimensions:
7.5" x 9.5"
Colors:
b&w/color
Year:
2009
Publisher:
Fantagraphics
ISBN-10:
n/a
ISBN-13:
978-1-60699-290-6
(some copies may be printed with 978-1-60699-187-9)
Additional Details:
squarebound softcover
Price:
$14.99
2010 Eisner Award Nominee: Best Comics-Related Periodical
2010 Harvey Award Nominee: Best Biographical, Historical or Journalistic Presentation
A spectacular anniversary issue featuring intergenerational dialogues between the cream of the cartooning biz: Alt wiz Kevin Huizenga and reigning Maus king Art Spiegelman; indy comics publisher/cartoonist/musician Zak Sally and Love and Rockets co-creator Jaime Hernandez; Bottomless Belly Button auteur Dash Shaw and Asterios Polyp elder auteur David Mazzucchelli; inflammatory muckraker Ted Rall and editorial cartoonist Matt Bors; super-popular Zits! cartoonist Jim Borgman and newly syndicated Keith “Knight Life” Knight; Martin Luther King chronicler Ho Che Anderson and American Flagg! creator Howard Chaykin; cartoonist/Kramer's Ergot helmer Sammy Harkham and Eurocomics great/L'Association co-founder Jean-Christophe Menu; superhero neo-mythologizer Frank Quitely and Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons; award-winning Fun Home cartoonist Alison Bechdel and Slow Storm wunderkind Danica Novgorodoff; mainstream writing powerhouses Denny O'Neil and Matt Fraction; and Usagi Yojimbo creator Stan Sakai and cartoonist/educator Chris Schweizer. Plus reviews of Acme Novelty Library #19 and Asterios Polyp, the usual columns and features, and Noah Van Sciver penetrates the Fantagraphics ivory tower for a hilarious cartoon interview with TCJ honcho Gary Groth.