The Comics Journal

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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.