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The Comics Journal #247 - Contents
Updated October 9th, 2002

Blood and Thunder

  • Greg Cwiklik's Thunderdome continues: This month, Greg vs. Matthew Surridge over "What's Wrong with Comics Today?" with a Tom Sutton remembrance and early Sutton cartoon, as well as some Creig Flessel interview corrections.

Newswatch

  • 9/11, Benefit Comics and the Dog-Eat-Dog World of Good Samaritanism
    by Michael Dean

    • The San Diego Comic-Con International from Panel to Panel
      by Michael Dean
    • Glimpses of Milton Caniff
      by R.C. Harvey
    • Todd McFarlane: Take Your Best Shot
      by Tom Spurgeon
    • Comic Book Law School 101
      by Michael Dean
    • Spiritual Themes in Comics
      by Marshall Pryor
    • Introduction to Visual Language
      by Michael Dean
    • Milestone at 10
      by R.C. Harvey
    • Breaking Down Barriers: Women Cartoonists
      by Tom Spurgeon
    • Underground Comix: Then and Now
      by Michael Dean
    • 60 Years of Crime Comics
      by Trina Robbins
    • Were the Will Eisner Industry Awards 2002 Criminally Behind the Times?
      by Austin English
    • An Afternoon with Tony Millionaire
      by Michael Dean
    • National Cartoonists Society
      by Tom Spurgeon
    • Weighing the Alternatives at San Diego Comic-Con International 2002
      by Austin English

  • Vince Fago, WWII Timely/Marvel Comics Editor Dies at Age 87
    by Ron Evry
  • Pioneering Underground Cartoonist Grass Green Passes Away at Age 63
    by Tom Spurgeon
  • Breaking News: Chaos! Bankrupt!
    by Michael Dean
  • Breaking News: Comics Retailer Appeals Obscenity Conviction to Texas Supreme Court
    by Michael Dean

Reviews

  • To Afghanistan and Back by Ted Rall
    by Rich Kreiner
  • Peace: The Arabic Caricature: A Study of Anti-Semitic Imagery by Arieh Stav
    by Leonard Rifas
  • Trenches by Scott Mills
    by Ng Suat Tong
  • Fallout by Jim Ottaviani, et. Al.
    by Matthew Surridge
  • Bullets
    The Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year: 2002, Plato’s Republic #911, Sketches: New York City, Feb. 2001-Feb. 2002 and I Love New York.

Funnybook Roulette

  • Assessing the Aesthetic Collateral Damage: A Review of All of the Major 9/11 comics.
    (Click here for an excerpt.)

    by R. Fiore

The Ruben Bolling Interview

  • Probing the mind of Ken Fisher.
    by Kent Worcester

The Ted Rall Interview

  • Everyone's favorite contrarian comics-magazine publisher chats with everyone's favorite contrarian alternative-weekly cartoonist.
    (Click here for an excerpt.)

    by Gary Groth

The Donald Rooum Interview

  • A talk with the finest British Anarchist cartoonist over 70.
    by Kent Worcester

Beyond the Grid

  • An essay on everyone's favorite contrarian alternative-weekly cartoonist's post-9/11 body of work.
    by John Giuffo

Comicopia

  • A report from this year's Association of American Editorial Cartoonists convention.
    by R.C. Harvey

Lost in Translation

  • Our Man in Japan examines Bakune Young and Japan's views of terrorism and American foreign policy as reflected in their pop culture.
    by Bill Randall


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