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The Comics Journal #299
The Comics Journal #299
The Pirates and the Mouse author Bob Levin tracks down the
El Dorado of comics, a lost collection of unpublished strips by 190 of
the world’s most important cartoonists, including Will Eisner, Vaughn
Bodé, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, Art Spiegelman, Arnold Roth, Bill
Griffith, Ralph Steadman, Don Martin, Gahan Wilson, Jeff Jones, Guido
Crepax—even William Burroughs, Tom Wolfe and Frank Zappa! The comics
were assembled in the 1970s by Michel Choquette (creator with Neal
Adams of National Lampoon’s Son o’ God comics) for a book called Someday Funnies,
which never saw print. Levin and Choquette reveal for the first time
the whole catastrophic story of what might have been the comics
anthology of the century.
Also in this issue: Sean T. Collins interviews Skyscrapers of the Midwest’s Josh Cotter; Noah Van Sciver's cartoon interview with King Cat's John Porcellino; our classic comics section features Myron Waldman’s Eve, with an introduction by Mark Newgarden; our usual smattering of insightful and incisive columns; reviews of Kramers Ergot 7, The Times of Botchan, Chaykin, Clowes, Tezuka and many more!
El Dorado of comics, a lost collection of unpublished strips by 190 of
the world’s most important cartoonists, including Will Eisner, Vaughn
Bodé, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, Art Spiegelman, Arnold Roth, Bill
Griffith, Ralph Steadman, Don Martin, Gahan Wilson, Jeff Jones, Guido
Crepax—even William Burroughs, Tom Wolfe and Frank Zappa! The comics
were assembled in the 1970s by Michel Choquette (creator with Neal
Adams of National Lampoon’s Son o’ God comics) for a book called Someday Funnies,
which never saw print. Levin and Choquette reveal for the first time
the whole catastrophic story of what might have been the comics
anthology of the century.
Also in this issue: Sean T. Collins interviews Skyscrapers of the Midwest’s Josh Cotter; Noah Van Sciver's cartoon interview with King Cat's John Porcellino; our classic comics section features Myron Waldman’s Eve, with an introduction by Mark Newgarden; our usual smattering of insightful and incisive columns; reviews of Kramers Ergot 7, The Times of Botchan, Chaykin, Clowes, Tezuka and many more!
- GenresComics
200 pages, Paperback
First published July 30, 2009
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