The Comics Journal #311 - Kate Beaton

Featured in this issue: An in-depth, personal conversation between Kate Beaton ( Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands , Hark! A Vagrant ) and Sarah Glidden ( Rolling Blackouts ), from the Pizza Island comics collective, about depicting history, humor, and social issues in comics form; a profile of Gilbert Shelton ( Zap, Fabulous Furry Freak Bros .), which includes a never-before-published-in-English Shelton Hagiography by French cartoonist Pic; and an interview with musician and cartoonist Jeffrey Lewis ( 12 Crass Songs, Fuff ). Plus: An Imaginary Publication Cover Gallery by Marc Bell ( Hot Potatoe ); a new manga column that puts classic and contemporary manga ( Kamen Rider and Hunter X Hunter ) in concert; a publishing roundtable on how to grow the adult audience for comics; a deep dive into an underdiscussed Charlton cartoonist, Enrique Nieto; a case for fine artist Dorothy Iannone's work as comics, and much more.