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.
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