CRUMB'S GENESIS SHOWCASED IN FIRST ISSUE OF NEWFORMAT As you all know, The Comics Journal hasbeen, for almost 35 years, the standard bearer of critical inquiry,discrimination, debate, and serious discussionof comics as art, and the object of love anddevotion among the comics cognescenti - and hate and scorn among thephilistines, natch. We published our 300th issue over a year ago andspent that time re-conceptualizing the institution as an annual book-length"magazine" - over 600 pages long, chock full of the kinds ofcriticism, interviews, commentary, and history that has made it the mostaward-winning and critically lauded magazine in the history ofcomics. This volume features a focus on R.Crumb's most commercially successful project of his career, his comicsadaptation of Genesis, including the most extensive interview he's given on thesubject as well as a long critical roundtable among six comics critics reviewingthe book and debating each other over its merits;plus: * An interview with Joe Sacco abouthis recent journalistic masterpiece, Footnotes inGaza; * A peek into the privatesketchbooks of (and accompanying interviews with) Jim Woodring, Tim Hensley, andthe novelist Stephen Dixon; * Aconversation between Mad Fold-Out creator Al Jaffee and Thrizzle auteur MichaelKupperman; * A complete full-colorreprinting of the 1950s Gerald McBoing Boingcomic; * The first significantbiographical essay charting the turn-of-the-century cartoonist and illustratorJohn T. McCutcheon; and essays and reviews by R. Fiore, R.C. Harvey, ChrisLanier, Rob Clough, and others. Gorgeouslyre-formatted and completely re-designed, The Comics Journal 301 is no meremagazine but a gigantic compendium covering comics past and present that willshock and delight every truly curious comics reader.