THE COMICS JOURNAL TP (2025)
This issue features an in-depth, personal conversation between Kate Beaton and Sarah Glidden about depicting history, humor, and social issues in comics form; a profile of Gilbert Shelton; an interview with musician and cartoonist Jeffrey Lewis and much more. Featured in this issue: An in-depth, personal conversation between Kate Beaton (Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Hark! A Vagrant) and Sarah Glidden (Rolling Blackouts), from the Pizza Island comics collective, about depicting history, humor, and social issues in comics form; a profile of Gilbert Shelton (Zap, Fabulous Furry Freak Bros.), which includes a never-before-published-in-English "Shelton Hagiography" by French cartoonist Pic; and an interview with musician and cartoonist Jeffrey Lewis (12 Crass Songs, Fuff). Plus: "An Imaginary Publication Cover Gallery" by Marc Bell (Hot Potatoe); a new manga column that puts classic and contemporary manga (Kamen Rider and Hunter X Hunter) in concert; a publishing roundtable on how to grow the adult audience for comics; a deep dive into an underdiscussed Charlton cartoonist, Enrique Nieto; a case for fine artist Dorothy Iannone's work as comics, and much more.
Multimedia artist and satirist Gerald Scarfe, best known globally for his Pink Floyd's The Wall and Disney's Hercules iconography, talks to Gary Groth about his scabrous film, TV, and comics career, spanning 60+ years. Also: in-depth journalism covering Bill Jemas' vice presidency and the creation of the Marvel Ultimates Universe during the wild last days of pre-movie monolith Marvel, when Ike Perlmutter roamed the halls; art-comics creators Aidan Koch and Lale Westvind in conversation; plus, original comics, archival material, and more.
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Comics Journal #295 (O/A)
"Brian K. Vaughan, writer of Y: The Last Man, will take readers behind the scenes of the upcoming Y film, TV's Lost, ...
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Comics Journal #296 (O/A)
"Edited by Gary Groth, Mike Dean & Kristy Valenti SC, 7.5 x 9.5, 200 pages, FC, $11.99 Our annual Best-of the-Year is...
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Comics Journal #297
"TCJ #297 contains a career-spanning interview with Mort Walker, the creator of the long-running comic strips Beetle ...
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Comics Journal #298 (O/A)
"In The Comics Journal #298, the multiple-Eisner-Award-winning Brazilian twins Gabriel Bá and Fabio Moon tell us abou...
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Comics Journal #299
"Edited: Gary Groth, Various Art: Various Cover: n/a In TCJ #299, The Pirate and the Mouse author Bob Levin tracks d...
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Comics Journal #300
"edited by Gary Groth, Mike Dean & Kristy Valenti A spectacular anniversary issue featuring intergenerational dialo...
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Comics Journal #301
" Edited by Gary Groth, Michael Dean & Kristy Valenti The Comics Journal has been, for over 30 years, the standard b...
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Comics Journal #302 (Res)
"This 600+ page edition features long interviews with Maurice Sendak, French graphic novel pioneer Jacques Tardi, Art...
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Comics Journal #303
"The most award-winning, internationally acclaimed comics and graphic novel magazine in the medium's history returns ...
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Comics Journal #304
"The Comics Journal #304 features a conversation with Simon Hanselmann, who discusses how his webcomic became an inte...
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Comics Journal #305
"The Comics Journal #305 will shine a light on how the livelihood and artwork created by cartoonists is affected by c...
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Comics Journal #306
"This issue features a major interview with Roz Chast, (Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?) plus a focus on...
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Comics Journal #307
In addition to this issue's featured interview Cathy Malkasian, MLK graphic biographer Ho Che Anderson shares his ani...
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Comics Journal #308
This issue of the award-winning magazine focuses on the intersections of comics and activism: Gary Groth interviews e...
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Comics Journal #309
From the trenches of independent/small press comics publishing, two art comics publishers talk - Gary Groth (Fantagra...
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Comics Journal #310 (Mature)
Multimedia artist and satirist Gerald Scarfe, best known globally for his Pink Floyd's The Wall and Disney's Hercules...
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The Comics Journal TPB #311
This issue features an in-depth, personal conversation between Kate Beaton and Sarah Glidden about depicting history,...
Publication Timeline
August 25, 2010
Issue #295 in the THE COMICS JOURNAL TP (2025) run.
August 25, 2010
Issue #296 in the THE COMICS JOURNAL TP (2025) run.
March 25, 2009
Issue #297 in the THE COMICS JOURNAL TP (2025) run.
August 25, 2010
Issue #298 in the THE COMICS JOURNAL TP (2025) run.
June 24, 2009
Issue #299 in the THE COMICS JOURNAL TP (2025) run.
September 30, 2009
Issue #300 in the THE COMICS JOURNAL TP (2025) run.
November 25, 2009
Issue #301 in the THE COMICS JOURNAL TP (2025) run.
November 28, 2012
Issue #302 in the THE COMICS JOURNAL TP (2025) run.
August 21, 2019
Issue #303 in the THE COMICS JOURNAL TP (2025) run.
January 26, 2022
Issue #304 in the THE COMICS JOURNAL TP (2025) run.
January 26, 2022
Issue #305 in the THE COMICS JOURNAL TP (2025) run.
January 26, 2022
Issue #306 in the THE COMICS JOURNAL TP (2025) run.
March 15, 2023
Issue #307 in the THE COMICS JOURNAL TP (2025) run.
June 12, 2024
Issue #308 in the THE COMICS JOURNAL TP (2025) run.
June 12, 2024
Issue #309 in the THE COMICS JOURNAL TP (2025) run.
August 28, 2024
Issue #310 in the THE COMICS JOURNAL TP (2025) run.
June 11, 2025
Issue #311 in the THE COMICS JOURNAL TP (2025) run.