Issue Description

The Journal presents a very special and long overdue feature interview with noted EC and Cracked artist John Severin, conducted by Gary Groth. Sporting an original cover by Severin, the interview discusses all facets of Severin's career, from his earliest days landing a spot in Harvey Kurtzman's studio and playing a major role in the success of EC's war comics, to helping shape the early days of Mad magazine, to achieving "living legend" status at Cracked magazine, and a helluva lot in between (including a long stint with Warren publications). Backing up Severin is (then-) newcomer Tony Millionaire, who first gained notoriety with his syndicated weekly strip Maakies, and subsequently caught on with his sleeper hit Sock Monkey series from Dark Horse. Find out why comics used to be better, liquor goes hand in hand with cartooning, and more. Plus, the most important news and reviews in the industry, making the Journal a resource you can't afford to miss!

The Comics Journal (1976)

Publisher

Fantagraphics

Volume Description

The Comics Journal is a magazine that covers the comics medium from an arts-first perspective, and one of the nation's most respected single-arts magazines, providing its readers with an eclectic mix of industry news, commentary, professional interviews, classic comics sections and reviews of current work on a regular basis. Due to its reputation as the American magazine with an interest in comics as an art form, the Journal has subscribers worldwide, and in this country serves as an important window into the world of comics for several general arts and news magazines.

Despite a contentious relationship with the rest of the North American comics industry, due in no small part to its investigative news stories and uncompromising review section, the Journal has won several industry awards, most notably the Utne Reader, Eisner and Harvey trophies.

In October 2009, we announced the next phase of the evolution of The Comics Journal, beginning in 2010 as a uniquely sized and formatted, evocatively visual and tactile semi-annual event, with expanded content at The Comics Journal website TCJ.com.

A comics magazine, which originally began as the New Nostalgia Journal, started in 1976 by Gary Groth and Mike Catron after the Nostalgia Journal (which ran 26 issues) lost their battle against the competing adzine, The Buyer's Guide. Gary and Mike, both in their twenties, had no plan, but somehow convinced the maker of the Nostalgia Journal to give them the paper.

As Gary Groth recalls:

I can’t remember how we talked them into this, but I suspect they were on their last legs and decided to hell with it, let’s give it to these two kids. Shortly thereafter, a box arrived in the mail with some back issues, a list of advertisers and a mailing list, and we were the proud new owners of Journal.

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