Blood and Thunder

• Everybody loves the new Journal! Except some people, who hate it.

Newswatch

• Who Killed Stan Lee Media? Peter Paul Tells His Side of the Story
  By Michael Dean
• B.C. Inspires 2001 A.D. Controversy
  By Tom Spurgeon
• Obscenity Conviction of Italian Publisher Overturned
  By Michael Dean
• Starwatcher Stalemate: Lawsuits Between Moebius and Lofficier Span Two Continents
  By Micheal Dean
• Animation Giant William Hanna Dead at 90
  By Greg Stump, with sentimental maundering by Micheal Dean
• Ed "Big Daddy" Roth Throws a Rod at 69
  By Larry Reid
• Mischa Richter, Cartoonist and Painter, Dies at 90
  By Greg Stump
• Pioneering Comics Retailer John Barrett Dies at 50
  By Michelle Nolan
• Diverse Eisner Nominations Announced
  By Matt Silvie

¡Viva la Comix!

• TCJ's Ghost World With Anne and Carrie
  By Anne Elizabeth Moore and Carrie Whitney
• Point/Counterpoint: Kenneth Smith vs. Kevin Smith?
  By TCJ staff
• Spot On
  By Rhea Patton

Reviews

• Guido Crepax: German Editions of Italian Pornography
  By David Miller
• Norwegian Mjau Mjau: Surmounting the Language Barrier
  By David A. Beronä
• Umezu Kazuo: Japanese Overtures to Madness and Death
  By Ng Suat Tong
• Adult Manga: May I See Some ID?
  By Bill Randall
• World Comics: Finland Provides Cartoons for the World
  By Leonard Rifas
• A Different World: An Overview of Bonelli Comics, Part I
  By Stefano Priarone
• MINI-Reviews
  By Anne Elizabeth Moore and Matt Silvie

International Profiles

• Goethe and The Little Asshole: an Overview of German Comics
  By Jochen Garcke
• Long-Distance Cartooning: Turkey's Salih Memecan
  By John A. Lent
• Survival is Name of Game for Cuban Cartoonists
  By John A. Lent
• Man Hua: Cartoons and Comics in China Before 1949
  By Hongying Liu-Lengyel
• Peanuts? No, Linus: Sparky and the Damned Intellectuals
  By Stefano Priarone
• Iran, A Country Teeming with Cartoonists
  By John A. Lent
• The Rock-and-a-Hard-Place Options of Cartooning in South Africa
  By John A. Lent

Interviews

• Daniel Clowes (click for excerpts)
  By Matt Silvie
• Seth Tobocman (click for excerpts)
  By Kenton Worcester

Columns

• Comicopia: The Graphic Novel, Will Eisner, and Other Pioneers
  By R.C. Harvey
• The History of Comics Fandom, Part Four
  By Ted White
• Comicopia
  By R.C. Harvey
• Euro Comics for Beginners: Anke Feuchtenberger
  By Bart Beaty
• Meet the Comics Press: Tripwire and Just Comics and More
  By Rich Kreiner