I’m expecting my comp anytime soon. I did an interview with Al Jaffee about 13 years ago and it’s been used again in this big volume. Now that Fantagraphics has become the main publisher of EC Comics, they’ve released this. Below is the copy they’re using:
The Comics Journal Library Vol. 8: The EC Artists
edited by Michael Dean
240-page black & white/color 10” x 12” softcover • $28.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-608-9
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The Comics Journal Library series is the most comprehensive series of lavishly illustrated interviews conducted with cartoonists ever published. To celebrate our republication of the legendary EC line, we proudly present the first of a two-volume set of interviews with the artists and writers (and publisher!) who made EC great. Included in the first volume:
career-spanning conversations with EC legends Will Elder, John Severin, Harvey Kurtzman, and Al Feldstein, as well as short interviews with EC short-timers Frank Frazetta and Joe Kubert. Also: EC Publisher “William Gaines on his infamous Senate subcommittee testimony, and probing conversations between Silver Age cartoonist Gil Kane and Harvey Kurtzman, as well as contemporary alternative cartoonist Sam Henderson and MAD great Al Jaffee.
Part of what made EC the best publisher in the history of mainstream comics was some of the most beautiful drawing ever published in comic books, and every interview is profusely illustrated by pertinent examples of the work under discussion. The EC artists were renowned for their attention to detail, and the reproduction here takes full advantage of the oversized art book format.
