Overview
In this issue, Gary Groth conducts a career-spanning interview with Y: The Last Man comics artist Pia Guerra about her turn to editorial cartooning and future projects. John Jennings explores the vision behind the graphic imprint Megascope, devoted to ""rediscovering powerful speculative work by and about people of color."" Jennie S. Law interviews Civil Rights activists Jennifer Lawson and Courtland Cox about their ingenious strategies - comics pamphlets about gaining political power, going undercover, mass meetings - to register voters in Lowndes County circa 1965. Nicknamed ""Bloody Lowndes,"" 80% of its population was Black, yet only two Black people were registered to vote. Also: a gallery of Frank Leet's one-panel cartoons illustrating Don Marquis's (Archy and Mehitabel) verse, a conversation with Alex Graham about self-publishing a 400-page graphic novel, a Rob Guillory (Chew, Farmhand) sketchbook, an original comic by Meg O'Shea, and more.
Full Product Details
Author: Gary Groth ,
Kristy Valenti ,
Rachel Miller
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics
ISBN: 9781683965336
ISBN 10: 1683965337
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 02 June 2022
Audience:
General/trade
,
General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.
Reviews
The Comics Journal [is the] storied arbiter of the indie-comics world. -- NPR
Author Information
American Canadian dual citizen Pia Guerra, b. 1971, is best known as the artist for the comics series Y: The Last Man, written by Brian K. Vaughan. The TV adaptation aired in September 2021 on FX. She's also drawn Dr. Who, Black Canary, and Simpsons comics and contributed to Mad magazine. Her political cartoons have appeared in venues such as The Washington Post, The New Yorker and The Nib. Gary Groth is the co-founder of The Comics Journal and Fantagraphics Books. He lives in Seattle. Rachel R. Miller earned her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, where she was a Presidential Fellow and served as the Assistant Editor of Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society. Her writing on comics and pop culture has been published in Public Books, Bitch Planet, Pretty Deadly, American Book Review, as well as many scholarly collections on comics and comics history. She co-curated the exhibit Ladies First: A Century of Women's Innovations in Comics and Cartoon Art for the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, which documents one hundred years of women's work in comics and cartoon art. Her first book, An Introduction to American Comics, co-authored with Dr. Andrew Kunka, is forthcoming from Routledge. Kristy Valenti is an Eisner-Award-winning editor at Fantagraphics Books. She lives in Seattle.
