Best Selling Books by Gary Groth

A book of interviews with the foremost social commentators of our times.

The historic magazine about comics, now available to the book trade! TheComics Journal is the award-winning print magazine and website exploring thewidest range of cartooning - newspaper strips, alternative and mainstreamgraphic novels, international works, editorial cartoons, webcomics, and muchmore - in the world. In TCJ #293: Zap artist S.Clay Wilson, Invader Zim and Johnny The Homicidal Maniaccreator Jhonen Vasquez, Box Office Poison''s Alex Robinson and comicsfrom the Center for Cartoon Studies.

A spectacular anniversary issue featuring intergenerational dialogues between alt wiz Kevin Huizenga and reigning Maus king Art Spiegelman, indy comics publisher Zak Sally and Love and Rockets co-creator Jaime Hernandez, Bottomless Belly Button auteur Dash Shaw and David Mazzucchelli and many, many more.

Few cartoonists have affected our world the way Robert Crumb (1943-) has, from busting cultural and sexual taboos for artists everywhere with his pioneering underground comix to his never-ending drive to improve his art. This book, the third volume of The Comics Journal Library series, presents a composite portrait of the artist through four long out-of-print interviews from the Utne Independent Press Award-winning magazine''s archives and a never-before-published chat from the artist''s 1980s renaissance. This volume spans Crumb''s life and career, covering his views on sex, politics, art, racism and culture, his peers and family, his flirtations with success on America''s terms and his later rejections of those terms. It also provides an absorbing oral history of the latter half of the 20th century from the point of view of an artist who helped shape it. Book jacket.

Interview in three sessions, the first (Cavalieri/Spiegelman) before the publication of Raw #1, the second (Cavalieri/Spiegelman/Mouly) before the publication of Raw #2, and the third (Cavalieri/Spiegelman/Mouly/Thompson/Groth) before the publication of Raw #3. Topics covered include Spiegelman''s fan and underground work, editing Arcade the comics revue, his work and consultantship with Topps Bubble Gum, work for Playboy, the history of Maus, and the beginnings of Raw.