Comics Round-Up
Written by Dirk Deppey
Published February 25, 2003
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  • Issue #250 of the Journal features a likewise long, career-spanning interview with cartoonist and illustrator Gary Panter, one of the cartoon geniuses behind the legendary RAW magazine whose other credits include the set-design for Pee Wee's Playhouse. You can read an excerpt here.

  • An added bonus: each month we offer long MP3 excerpts from the original audiotapes of classic Journal interviews in our Audio Archives. This month's installment comes from The Comics Journal #137 (September 1990), in which Gary Groth spoke by telephone with cartoonists Steve Bissette (Swamp Thing, Taboo) and Scott McCloud (Zot!, Understanding Comics) on the subject of creators' rights. It was a heady time for the comics industry; hot on the heels of an exodus of top-level talent from DC following a controversy over a proposed ratings system, a group of cartoonists met in Northampton, MA to discuss a document that would eventually become known as the Creator's Bill of Rights. The conversation excerpted in the soundfiles below covers the issues raised in that document — issues which remain as important to today's working cartoonists as they were to Bissette and McCloud when this discussion took place. Please note that these files will be removed on March 21st, to make room for the next archival excerpt.

    You can keep up with the latest developments in comics at The Comics Journal's daily weblog, ¡Journalista!. Enjoy.

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    #1 — February 28, 2003 @ 08:09AM — Bill Sherman [URL]

    I've still been plowing through the massive Winter Special and would definitely recommend it: in addition to the lon-n-n-g Stout interview, there's informative material on James Thurber as a cartoonist; appreciations of artists like Linda Barry and Mike Kaluta - plus sixty-plus pages of new comics entitled "Cartoonists on Patriotism" that are sure to stoke the fires of poli-blogs everywhere. . .

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