TCJ Archive

The Comics Journal No. 212, May 1999

Featuring interviews with V.T. Hamlin and Jay Stephens; reviews of Mutts IV and Plastic Man Archives Volume One; a look at comics as serious literature.

Editorial

Rich Kreiner, “Pay-as-You-Go Pleasures; In Defense of Serialized Comics” (p.1)

News
Newswatch: “Spider-Man and Wolfman” (p.7)

Interviews
V. T. Hamlin (p.54)
Jay Stephens (p.80)

Reviews
Milo George, “Plastic Man Archives Volume One” (p.33)
Ng Suat Tong, “After The Rain” (p.34)
Darren Hick, “Nuts! The Battle of the Bulge” (p.35)
Kent Worcester, “Mutts IV: Yesh!” (p.36)
Ng Suat Tong, “Getting Short” (p.37)
Jim Ottaviani, “Catch a Buzz” (p.40)
Matt Madden, “The Maltese Factor” (p.42)
Ng Suat Tong, “Infactuation” (p.44)

Essays
Kenneth Smith, “End Times” (p.111)

Columns
Larry Rodman, Scattershots: “Big Curiousity Shop” (p.47)
Comicopia: “In the Kitchen with Comics as Serious Literature” (p.105)
Fanboi Politik: “A New Mainstream Renaissance?” (p.109)
Hit List (p.118)

Illustration
Jay Stephens, Cover