On sale date: June 10, 2025
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.
The Comics Journal #311 is part of the The Comics Journal series.
Specs
- Pages
- 220
- Format
- Paperback / Softback
- Color
- Full-color
- Dimensions
- 8" × 10.1"
- ISBN-13
- 9798875001208