The Comics Journal #303

The only serious, scholarly journal of comics news and criticism: a multiple Harvey, Eisner, Eagle and Utne Award-winning magazine and an essential resource for fans, scholars and librarians since its premiere in 1976. The long-awaited New Yorker issue. Gary Groth talks to Françoise Mouly, the magazine’s art editor and discusses how cover illustrations by artists like Art Spiegelman, Barry Blitt, Lorenzo Mattotti, Sempé, Chris Ware, Peter deSeve, and Joost Swarte are conceived and executed. Interviews with such arists as Gahan Wilson, Harry Bliss, Bob Mankoff, Roz Chast, Victoria Roberts, George Booth, and Sam Gross. Be a fly on the wall on cartoon pitch day. Take a stroll through The New Yorker’s venerated history of cartooning. Plus essays, galleries and more.