The Comics Journal #295

By Gary Groth and Michael Dean

The Comics Journal #295 is chock full of all the comicky goodness that you've come to expect from our fine publication! Check it out:

- Sean T. Collins interviews writer Brian K. Vaughan about Y the Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways, Pride of Baghdad, how a career in comics led him to writing for the hit television series Lost, and much, much more.
- Paul Karasik presents a conversation with Italian cartoonist Gipi, who talks about Garage Band, Notes for a War Story, the Ignatz books and how he narrowly avoided a life of crime.
- Rob Clough offers us a chat with humor cartoonist John Kerschbaum, covering everything from The Wiggly Reader to Pete & Pussy to why he couldn't figure out why his first editors hated him so much.
- Michael Dean examines the page rates paid by the Best American Comics anthology series.
- Noah Berlatsky digs into the comic-book closet and finds out what's hiding back there.
- R.C. Harvey examines the life of Flash Gordon/Rip Kirby creator Alex Raymond.
- Our comics section this issue: Charles A. Voight's short-lived newspaper strip The Theorist, in its entirety.

The Comics Journal #295 -- around the comics world in 208 pages! Don't miss it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560979852
• ISBN13: 9781560979852
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.1"