TCJ Archive

The Comics Journal No. 254, July 2003

Featuring interviews with Will Elder and Kazuo Umezu.

News
Newswatch (p. 3)

Interviews
The Will Elder Interview (p. 78)
Speaking in Tongues, Interview with Kazuo Umezu (p. 137)

Essays
Gary Groth, “A Bill of Goods” (p. 59)
Rich Kreiner, “A Funnybook Aesthetic Primer” (p. 63)
Tom Spurgeon, “Comics Made Me Fat” (p. 67)
Gregory Cwiklik, “What’s Wrong With Comics Criticism?” (p. 69)

Reviews
Darcy Sullivan, “Notes Toward a Review of The Myth of 8-Opus: The Doomed Battalion” (p. 49)
Daniel Holloway, “Odds Off” (p. 52)
Ng Suat Tong, “Storylines” (p. 54)

Columns
Viva La Comix (p. 47)
Meet the Comics Press (p. 56)