There are better ways to spend a rainy afternoon than flipping through a box of old Heavy Metal magazines, but that’s exactly what I was doing when I happened upon “Is There No Justice in the Universe?” a forgotten five-page story by Brian Allen McCall in the August 1983 issue. Buried near the middle of the magazine, between a middle chapter of Tamburini and Liberatore’s Ranxerox and a one-page strip by Peter Kuper, it’s not surprising that this story was condemned to obscurity.
I was lucky enough to speak to Hagio at the San Diego Comic-Con through her translator Matt Thorn, the editor of A Drunken Dream.
In Part Two, Pekar rates world literature, discusses how different artists interpret his writing and generally champions the underdog.
In this Interview from TCJ #97, August 1985: Stories About Honesty, Money and Misogyny.
This interview is reprinted from TCJ #162, October 1993, the autobio-cartoonist issue. In this interview, Groth and Pekar talk about literary values, evaluate other autobio cartoonists, and ponder how to grow a lit-comics readership.
Upcoming: Gary Groth’s 1985 interview with Harvey Pekar.
Over at GutterGeek, Chris Reilly interviews “Smell of Steve” creator/artist Brian Sendelbach, who has irons in numerous fires these days. Topics include the inspirational power of boredom, the potivational power of paid work, and the debilitating power of acne. Chris also runs down, up, and all over recent comic book releases.
The Gahan Wilson interview concludes, with discussions about scary movies, the Great Depression and Mel Brooks.
Brendan Leach is the creator of one of the year’s most enjoyable comics – The Pterodactyl Hunters in the Gilded City. As I noted in an earlier Comics Journal post, Pterodactyl Hunters is a clever mock newspaper from 1904 …
I met Gahan Wilson at the Horror Writers Association (HWA) Stoker Awards Banquet in New York City in 1998. We talked over a drink at one of the cocktail parties at the weekend event. In addition to feeling somewhat awestruck to be in the presence of one of the greatest contemporary cartoonists, whose work has appeared in Playboy,
The fourth installment of an extensive four-part interview with the author of The King Canute Crowd, The Fate of the Artist and co-creator of From Hell, originally published in The Comics Journal #273.
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