TCJ Archive

The Comics Journal No. 289, April 2008

Featuring interviews with Robert Kirkman and Shaun Tan.

Letters

Blood & Thunder (p. 12)

News

Greg Stump and staff, Journal Datebook (p. 15)

 

Interviews

Simon Abrams, with essays by Michael Dean and Simon Abrams, The Robert Kirkman Interview (p. 38)

Jon Swabey, The Shaun Tan Interview (p. 104)

 

Reviews

Bill Randall, The Arrival (p. 146)

Timothy Kreider, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier (p. 150)

Lio: Happiness is a Squishy Cephalopod and Discovered (p. 155)

Batman #663 (p. 156)

The Original Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes Vol. 1 (p. 157)

 

Columns

Bill Randall, Lost In Translation: “Fine Art, Fine Comics” (p. 158)

Rich Kreiner, Meet the Comics Press: “Over the Transom” (p. 164)

Tom  Crippen, Post-Human Review: “Big Red Feet, Mighty Chest” (p. 169)

R.C. Harvey, Comicopia: “Mutt, Jeff, and Bud” (p. 174)

Donald Phelps, The Observer: “Toonerville Territory” (p. 188)

Coming Comics (p. 146)

 

Essays

Alan David Doane, “A Future For Comics” (p. 25)

Bob Levin, “When Larry Met Dwaine” (p. 32)

Jared Gardner, Ed Wheelan’s Minute Movies (p. 114)

Preview: Jessica Abel and Matt Madden’s Drawing Words & Writing Pictures (p. 190)