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Issue #243 - Contents
Updated May 11, 2002

Newswatch

  • LPC's Chapter 11 and Top Shelf's Near Death Experience
    by Michael Dean
  • Burne Hogarth Estate vs. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
    by Michael Dean
  • Spanish Comics Convention Scandalized by Live Sex Performance
    by Eric Reynolds
  • Bookstore Challenges Canada Customs Seizure of Gay S&M-Themed Comics
    by David Rust
  • Alternatives Well Represented in 2002 Eisner Award Nominations
    by Michael Dean
  • Rand Holmes: 1942-2002
    by Trina Robbins

Reviews

  • The Refining Power of the Stars: The Masochists
    by Ng Suat Tong
  • One for the Landfill: Pistolwhip
    by Bill Randall
  • 48 Pages in Search of a Good Translator: Nofret: Kiya
    by Matthew Surridge
  • Review-proof: Vernacular Drawings & Tardi Carnet
    by Bart Beaty

Graphics Novel Panel Discussion

  • Chip Kidd, Charles Burns, Kim Deitch, Kaz, Richard McGuire, Art Spiegelman and Chris Ware discuss contemporary funnybooks.
    (Click here for an excerpt.)

    Introduction by Jack Baney

The Dylan Horrocks Interview

  • New Zealand's greatest comics export tells all about his life, work and career. Their chat is followed by three pages of Hicksville outtakes and sketchbook art.
    (Click here for an excerpt.)

    by Tom Spurgeon

Lost in Translation

  • It's a Tokyo Thing
    (Click here for an introduction to the Journal's new manga column.)

    by Bill Randall

Funnybook Roulette

  • Take the Old Story Out Back and Don't Shoot It: Ghost World
    by R. Fiore

Comicopia

  • The Comics: Unpredictable or Dead?
    by R.C. Harvey

Minimalism

  • Enter the Stack
    by Tom Spurgeon


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