Edited by Gary Groth. The 2002 Summer Special spotlights master cartoonist Jim Woodring, with a spectacular cover painting, two essays on the artist's ouevre by Donald Phelps and Kenneth Smith, and a new interview.
Text-and-art features include an appreciation of the cartoonist W.E. Hill by Zippy creator Bill Griffith (with many examples of Hill's gorgeous tabloid-sized Sunday pages in full-color), and Timothy Kreider on B. Kliban. The comics section's theme this volume is "Cartoonists on Music" and you can expect many of the greatest names in cartooning today, including: Mary Fleener, Roger Langridge, Peter Bagge, Spain, Carol Lay, Phoebe Gloeckner, Tony Millionaire, R. Crumb, Bill Griffith, David Mazzucchelli, Ivan Brunetti, Matt Groening, Sherri Flenniken, Richard Sala, Rick Geary, Mark Martin, and many more!
Softcover, 12-in. x 12-in., 156 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers.
