{"product_id":"the-comics-journal-301-9781606992913","title":"The Comics Journal #301","description":"\u003cp\u003eCRUMBS GENESIS SHOWCASED IN FIRST ISSUE OF NEW FORMAT  As you all know  The Comics Journal has been  for almost 35 years  the standard bearer of critical inquiry  discrimination  debate  and serious discussion of comics as art  and the object of love and devotion among the comics cognescenti - and hate and scorn among the philistines  natch. We published our 300th issue over a year ago and spent that time re-conceptualizing the institution as an annual book-length magazine - over 600 pages long  chock full of the kinds of criticism  interviews  commentary  and history that has made it the most award-winning and critically lauded magazine in the history of comics.  This volume features a focus on R. Crumbs most commercially successful project of his career  his comics adaptation of Genesis  including the most extensive interview hes given on the subject as well as a long critical roundtable among six comics critics reviewing the book and debating each other over its merits; plus:   An interview with Joe Sacco about his recent journalistic masterpiece  Footnotes in Gaza;   A peek into the private sketchbooks of (and accompanying interviews with) Jim Woodring  Tim Hensley  and the novelist Stephen Dixon;   A conversation between Mad Fold-Out creator Al Jaffee and Thrizzle auteur Michael Kupperman;   A complete full-color reprinting of the 1950s Gerald McBoing Boing comic;   The first significant biographical essay charting the turn-of-the-century cartoonist and illustrator John T. McCutcheon; and essays and reviews by R. Fiore  R.C. Harvey  Chris Lanier  Rob Clough  and others.  Gorgeously re-formatted and completely re-designed  The Comics Journal 301 is no mere magazine but a gigantic compendium covering comics past and present that will shock and delight every truly curious comics reader.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67616039010357,"sku":"ByrdShop_1606992910","price":240.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781606992913.jpg?v=1791200966","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-comics-journal-301-9781606992913","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}