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Special Edition
(Summer 2002, Volume II)
Contents

Posted July 6, 2002

Hot Alligator!

  • How Little Orphan Annie Beat the Pants Off the Boys at Strip Dice and MC'ed the First Comic Strip: A Look at the Launching of a Legend.
    By Bill Blackbeard

Deeper Meanings

  • Another Look at B. Kliban.
    By Timothy Kreider

All Hail Jack Kent!

  • An appreciation of King Aroo's creator and rare look at full-color Sunday pages.
    By Tom Devlin

Between Borders

  • Who's who in Mexican alternative graphic narrative.
    By Ernesto Priego

Side by Side by Trondheim

  • The defiant and prolific spontaneity of the French artist.
    By Paul Gravett

Rebels Against the Zeitgeist

  • How Harvey Kurtzman and Al Capp succumbed to the 1960s.
    By R. Fiore

W.E. Hill

  • An appreciation of the little known and underrated cartoonist from the early 20th century.
    by Bill Griffith

Jim Woodring: No Offense Taken

  • The artist is nearly as cunning and elusive as his art, but he opens up in an exclusive interview about childhood apparitions, death, money, Microsoft, Frank, and getting out while the getting's good.(Click here for excerpt!)
    by Gary Groth

Catwalk

  • A discussion of the work of Jim Woodring.
    by Donald Phelps

Cartoonists on Music
(Our comics section)
  • Shary Flenniken
  • Michael Kupperman
  • Steven Weissman
  • Rick Altergott
  • Chris Ware
  • Johnny Ryan
  • Gilbert Hernandez
  • Phoebe Gloeckner
  • Wilfred Santiago
  • Ivan Brunetti
  • P. Craig Russell
    (with Lovern Kindzierski)
  • Jordan Crane
  • John Kerschbaum
  • David Collier
  • Roger Langridge
  • Mary Fleener
  • Ted Jouflas
  • Mark Kalesniko
  • Bill Griffith
  • Sam Henderson
  • C. Tyler
  • Arnold Roth
  • Tony Millionaire
  • Penny Van Horn
  • Frank Stack
  • Carol Lay
  • Jaime Hernandez
  • Mack White
  • John Porcellino
  • James Sturm
  • Tim Helmsley
  • Rick Geary
  • Victor Moscoso
  • Justin Green
  • Mark Martin
  • Spain Rodriguez
  • Gerald Jablonski
  • Megan Kelso
  • Ho Che Anderson
  • Peter Blegvad
  • Robert Crumb
  • Ron Regé, Jr.


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