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Issue: The Comics Journal Special Edition #1
Publication Date: December 2001
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Issues: #1 of 5 Issues
Title: Cartoonists on Cartooning
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
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Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 160
ISBN: 1560974737
UPC/EAN: 978156097473451995
Price: $29.95 CAD
$19.95 USD
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Content Items: 53 (39 stories, 0 covers)
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Disclose Notes: Joe Sacco cover and interview.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Black and White and Color
Dimensions: 12" x 12" (30.48 cm x 30.48 cm)
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Binding: Softcover
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:
FlagThe R. Crumb Handbook #[nn] published January 2005 as The Heartbreak of the Old Cartoonist [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in 3 other Issues:
FlagThe Squirrel Mother #[nn] published January 2006
FlagCruisin' with the Hound: The Life and Times of Fred Toote' #[nn] published April 2012
FlagLove and Rockets Library #12 published January 2016
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Samizdat Comics- The Comics Journal Presents Cartoonists on Cartooning

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Sullivant Gallery- An Appreciation of the Gag Cartoonist

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Bayeux and the Worm- Two Extended Timelines of Cartooning

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Writer(s): Matthew Surridge
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Greg Cook, Artist and Newspaperman- Cartooning's Role in the Context of Everything Else

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Holman's Legacy to Popular Humor- The Disarranged Landscape of Smokey Stover

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Writer(s): Donald Phelps (credited)
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Disclose Notes: Accompanied by three small Holman illustrations. Introduction to the Smokey Stover reprints that follow.
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[untitled]

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Reprint Notes: from Chicago Tribune / N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc. (1935-39)
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Columbia's Voyage of Discovery- The Recent Work of Al Columbia

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What's Wrong with Comics Today? A Completely Personal Overview

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When Comics Were for Kids- A Speculative Essay at Resurrecting the Past

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Whatever Happened to Autobiographical Comics? Three Recent Anthologies Circumscribe the New Cutting Edge

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Joe Sacco, Frontline Journalist- Why Sacco Went to Goradze

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Krigstein's Last Gasp

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Disclose Notes: "From the upcoming second volume of his biography of Bernard Krigstein: Greg Sadowski discusses the comic-book master's "messages in a bottle."
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The Completist

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Peter
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A Day in the Life of a Typical Cartoonist

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Several Drawers

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Space Case

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Filler Page

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Johnny Gun

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The RAYMOND school- an appreciation

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Where Do You Get Your Ideas

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High Art Lowdown

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Didi Glitz in C'est Cheese

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Cartoonist
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Cartoonists on Cartooning... ... And the People Who Love Them!

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"Malo" Peeps

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The Golden Nib

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Disclose Notes: An untitled twenty-eight panel sequence featuring a cartoonist sitting on his easel along with his two pets.
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Th' Good Ol' Stuff

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[untitled]

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Disclose Notes: A twelve-panel wordless untitled sequence involving an artist at work turning into a werewolf.
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Little Crosshatch Mind

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Sandwich / Pho' Shop / Wet Hair/ Cacomistle on Comics

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Mr. Twee Deedle by Johnny Gruelle

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The Boy Who Loved Comics

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So You Want to be a Nationally Syndicated Cartoonist? Here's How!!

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Character(s): Bill Griffith
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Here's One We Made Earlier

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Publius

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The Assignment

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The Heartbreak of the Old Cartoonist

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Funnybook Folly

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Moonlight Madness!

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Human Poultry Item in "Cartoon Genius Re-visited"

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Joe Sacco; Human Poultry Item
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Comics: A Young Man's Game?

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I Hate Comics

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Are Our Comics Good for Us?

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Untitled

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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Doofus; Stink Hair Stu
First Line: Well, Doofus, I'm still engaged in my ongoing odyssey of literary discovery!
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Fop

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Cartoonist Anonymous

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First Line: I always liked comics.
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Cartoon Coroner

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The Sirens of Celebrity

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It Begins

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First Line: Gloom
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Introduction, And Apologies 10/15/2001

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