TCJ Archive
The Comics Journal No. 308, Winter-Spring 2022
In this issue, Gary Groth conducts a career-spanning interview with Y: The Last Man comics artist Pia Guerra about her turn to editorial cartooning and future projects. Alex Dueben explores the graphic imprint Megascope, devoted to “rediscovering powerful speculative work by and about people of color.” Jennie S. Law interviews Civil Rights activists Jennifer Lawson and Courtland Cox about their ingenious strategies — comics pamphlets about gaining political power, going undercover, mass meetings — to register voters in Lowndes County circa 1965. Nicknamed “Bloody Lowndes,” 80% of its population was Black, yet only two Black people were registered to vote. Also: a gallery of Frank Leet’s one-panel cartoons illustrating Don Marquis’s (Archy and Mehitabel) verse, a conversation with Alex Graham about self-publishing a 400-page graphic novel, a Rob Guillory (Chew, Farmhand) sketchbook, an original comic by Meg O’Shea, and more.
Blood and Thunder (6)
Annie Koyama, Ricardo Baptista, Ramon Gil, MariNaomi, David Brothers, J.M. Hunter
From the Trenches (8)
Small-Press Cons Evolve in the Age of COVID
Representatives from Autoptic, TCAF, MICE, CAKE, CXC, Seattle’s Short Run Comix & Arts Festival and SPX
Interview (20)
Pia Guerra
Interviewed by Gary Groth
Feature (68)
Through the Megascope: John Jennings’ New Imprint at Abrams ComicArts
Alex Dueben
Interview (76)
Courtland Cox and Jennifer Lawson
Interviewed by Jennie S. Law
Comic (91)
“Overlay”
Meg O’Shea
Sketchbook (96)
Rob Guillory
Reconsidering the Canon (152)
Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
Tiffany Babb
Fair Warning (112)
Alex Graham
Interviewed by Rachel Miller
Gallery (128)
Rhymes of Doting Mammas: Forgotten Tales of Frightful Children
Don Marquis with original illustrations by Frank R. Leet
Introduction by John Batteiger
Scene Report (140)
Melbourne / Australia
Ben Jeurs
