Editorial

• Anne Elizabeth Moore gets all this "Interim Editor" nonsense out of the way, once and for all.

Newswatch

• Born of Bile:
  Newswatch Examines Its Own Navel
  By Michael Dean
• Gary and Hunter and Rock and Roll
  By Gary Groth
• Days of High Dudgeon
  By Gary Groth
• National Cartoonists Society Takes Break from In-Fighting to Present Reuben Awards
  By Ron Evry
• Dennis the Menace Creator, Hank Ketcham Dies at 81
  By Greg Stump
• Gilbert Hernandez on Hank Ketcham
  By Gilbert Hernandez
• Richard Hamilton Morrisey Dies at 47
  By Mike Catron
• Federal Investigation of Stan Lee Media Leads to Indictments of Peter Paul, Three Others
  By Michael Dean

Testimonials

• We promised people positive reviews to say nice things about us. We will not, of course, follow through. Bonus "web only" testimonial and cartoon by Seth!
  By Many and Varied

Essays

• This Goofy Career
  By Kim Thompson
• The Day Murray Soltinoff Died
  By Tom Spurgeon
• When Extravagant Fantasies Become Drab Realities
  By Matthew Surridge
• TCJ: Resource to the World
  By David A. Beronä
• Tilting at Windmills
  By Kent Worcester
• That Was The Comics Journal That Was
  By Bruce Chrislip
• Still Long and Hard After All These Years
  By Robert Edison Sandiford
• A Note From the Former Librarian
  By David Lasky
• 13 Ways of Looking at The Comics Journal
  By Gene Kannenberg, Jr.
• A Brief History of My Career in Comics
  By James Kochalka
• Five-Way Tie for Last:
  The Alternative Comics Cadaver Derby Revisited
  By Dirk Deppey
• Fanboys at Fantagraphics:
  Working for TCJ and Eros Comix
  By David Miller
• ¡Viva La Journal!: A Personal View
  By Gregory Cwiklik
• The Dr. Filth No One Knows
  By Bob Levin
• The Journal and the Unknown Cartoonist
  By Austin English
• A Broom Against the Tides
  By Kenneth Smith
• This Fanboy Life
  By Larry Rodman

Picture Album

• Aren't we adorable?
  

Short Interviews: Our Enemies Revisited

• To err is human, to mock divine. Oh, wait, did I write "err?" I meant to write "fuck over."
  By Matt Silvie

Sim

• We didn't have time to proofread Dave Sim's testimonial, because we were too busy watching All the President's Men.
  

McCloud

• Scott McCloud responds to Gary Groth's two-part review, and we let him.
  

Timeline

• Everything that has ever happened that matters. Click here to read a sample year!

History of Comics Fandom

• Resident Drug Expert Ted White on the origins of TCJ, which is a very good magazine you should read some time.

Comicopia

• R.C. Harvey gets straight with history. And explains that, to him, gays are not weird.

Meet the Comics Press

• Rich Kreiner turns his critical eye to The Comics Journal, which is apparently a magazine about comical books.

Euro Comics for Beginners

• We were going to tell Bart Beaty that we didn't have room for this column again, but it didn't seem so funny later.