TCJ Archive

The Comics Journal No. 234, June 2001

Kim Deitch, Bill Griffith, Seth, Joe Sacco and Charles Burns talk to Gary Groth; Charles Brownstein interviews Marnie Ware, Erika Clowes, Wendy Jung and Carol Kovinick-Hernandez.

Letters
Blood & Thunder (p. 3)

News
Newswatch (p. 5)

Reviews
Christopher Brayshaw, Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth (p. 24)
Sarah Kavage, The Soap Lady (p. 26)
Kent Worcester, Speechless (p. 27)
Dylan Horrocks, Understanding Comics (p. 29)
Ng Suat Tong, The House on the Borderland (p. 40)
Gregory Cwiklik, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (p. 43)
Ng Suat Tong, "Marcel Guldemond, Underrated Gem" (p. 47)
Anne Elizabeth Moore, Kent Worcester, Ng Suat Tong, Eric Reynolds, Nancy J. Arms, Matt Silvie, Hitlist (p. 118)

Essays
Gary Groth, McCloud “Cuckoo-Land Un-Reinventing Comics, Part 2” (p. 49)
Mike Barrier, “Thoughts on Carl Barks’s 100th Birthday” (p. 53)

Interviews
Kim Deitch, Bill Griffith, Seth, Joe Sacco and Charles Burns “Six Guys in a Hotel Room” (p. 66)
Marnie Ware, Erika Clowes, Wendy Jung and Carol Kovinick-Hernandez “Kiss and Tell” (p. 78)

Columns
Scattershots: Robert Edison Sandiford on Bob Fingerman (p. 57)
Viva la Comix! (p. 20)
Comicopia: “The Graphic Novel, Will Eisner, and Other Pioneer Part 2” (p. 92)
Meet The Comics Press: “The Charlton Phenomenon” (p. 98)
Minimalism (p. 100)
Eurocomics for Beginners: “El Diablo's Danijel Zezelj, important cartoonist”  (p. 105)
History of Comics Fandom (p. 107)
End Times  “Slavish New World” (p. 112)

Illustrations
Kim Deitch, Charles Burns, Joe Sacco, Seth and Bill Griffith, colored by Carrie Whitney (Front Cover)