The Comics Journal

The most award-winning, internationally acclaimed comics and graphic novel magazine in the medium's history returns to print!

About the author

Tomi Ungerer (1931-2019) was born in Strasbourg, France. He is a cartoonist known for authoring more than a hundred books, both for children and adults. In 1957, he moved to the United States, where he became well-known for his satirical advertising campaigns. In 1998, he was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Prize.

Summary

The Comics Journal, which is renowned for its in-depth interviews, comics criticism, and thought-provoking editorials, features Gary Groth in frank and often hilarious discussion with the satirist and children’s book author Tomi Ungerer. Ungerer talks about the entire trajectory of his life and career: growing up in France during the Nazi occupation, creating controversial work, and being blacklisted by the American Library Association. This issue, the first in its new twice-a-year format, covers the “new mainstream” in American comics — how the marketplace and overall perception of the medium has drastically shifted since the “graphic novel boom” of the early 2000s and massive hits like Persepolis, Fun Home, and Smile. It also includes sketchbook pages from French-born cartoonist Antoine Cossé’ an introduction to homoerotic gag cartoons out of the U.S. Navy; and Your Black Friend cartoonist Ben Passmore’s examination of comics and gentrification.

Product details

• Authors: Antoine Cosse, Gary Groth, Gary Casey Groth, Sheena C. Howard, Tomi Ungerer
• Assisted by: RJ Casey (Editor), Gary Groth (Editor), Gary Groth (Editor), Groth Gary (Editor), Kristy Valenti (Editor), RJ Casey (Editor), Kristy Valenti (Editor), Valenti Kristy (Editor)
• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 16
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781683961710
• ISBN: 978-1-68396-171-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 205 mm x 250 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Comics Journal
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire > Comic; Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques; COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / General, Graphic Novels, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: styles / traditions