TCJ Archive

The Comics Journal No. 209, December 1998

Featuring interviews with Frank Miller and Sam Henderson; Tom Spurgeon reviews Manga.

Letters
Blood and Thunder: “Freckle-Faced Yams and Candy-Cotton Highways” (p.2)

News
Newswatch: “Last-Minute Save” (p.5)

Interviews
Frank Miller (p.44)
Sam Henderson (p.92)

Reviews
Tom Spurgeon, “The Four Immigrant Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924” (p.29)
Bart Beaty, “Top Notch #1” (p.30)
Scott A. Gilbert, “Rare and Unique” (p.33)
Leonard Rifas, “Procedures and Dismissals” (p.36)
Robert Edison Sandiford, “Sexing The Reader” (p.38)
Gregory Cwiklik, “Metricious Splendor From Out of the Modern Cultural Junkyard” (p.40)

Columns
Euro-Comics for Beginners (p.19)
Larry Rodman, Scattershots: “A Passion Play” (p.25)
Greg Cwiklik, Beyond the Grid: “The Pulp Art Aesthetic” (p.111)
Snobbies Results (p.118)
Spot On! (p.119)

Illustration
Frank Miller, Cover