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Steve Gerber (1947-2008) is among the most significant comics writers of the modern era. This volume follows Gerber's career through a range of interviews, beginning with his height during the 1970s and ending with an interview with Michael Eury just before Gerber's death in 2008.

Author Michael Chabon described Ben Katchor (b. 1951) as ""the creator of the last great American comic strip."" Katchor's work is often described as zany or bizarre, and author Douglas Wolk has characterized his work as ""one or two notches too far"" beyond an absurdist reality. And yet the work resonates with its audience.

Presents a collection of interviews and profiles spanning 30 years (1976-2006), that reveal an artist who had long been working to establish comics as a serious art form.

Stan Lee (b. 1922) is one of the most successful writers and publishers of comics. Stan Lee: Conversations collects interviews ranging from 1968 to 2005. Lee's charm, good humour, and keen business sense are on display. He talks with candour about his creative process, publishing, film and television adaptations of his comic books, and the evolution of the comics industry.

Spanning the period from 1990 to 2017, Alison Bechdel: Conversations collects ten interviews that illustrate how Bechdel uses her own life, relationships, and contemporary events to expose the world to what she has referred to as the "fringes of acceptability" - the comics genre as well as queer culture and identity.

As a group the interviews in John Jennings: Conversations give a picture of a black man forging a way where comic books have afforded him a means to carve out an important space for people of colour.

As a group the interviews in John Jennings: Conversations give a picture of a black man forging a way where comic books have afforded him a means to carve out an important space for people of colour.

The early 1980s saw a revolution in mainstream comics as new methods of publishing and distribution broadened the possibilities. Among those artists utilizing these new methods, Chester Brown quickly developed a cult following. This volume collects interviews covering all facets of the cartoonist's long career and includes several pieces from now-defunct periodicals and fanzines.

Canadian cartoonist Gregory Gallant, pen name Seth, emerged as a cartoonist in the fertile period of the 1980s, when the alternative comics market boomed. These interviews, including one career-spanning, definitive interview between the volume editors and the artist published here for the first time, delve into Seth's output from its earliest days to the present.

One of the most distinctive voices in mainstream comics since the 1970s, Howard Chaykin has earned a reputation as a visionary formal innovator and a compelling storyteller. Beginning with early interviews in fanzines and concluding with a new interview conducted in 2010, Howard Chaykin: Conversations collects widely ranging discussions from Chaykin's earliest days to his recent work.

Edited by comics scholar M. Thomas Inge, this volume collects the best interviews with Will Eisner from 1965 to 2004. Taken together, the interviews cover the breadth of Eisner's career with in-depth information about his creation of The Spirit and other well-known comic book characters, his devotion to the educational uses of the comics medium, and his contributions to the graphic novel.

One of the most distinctive voices in mainstream comics since the 1970s, Howard Chaykin has earned a reputation as a visionary formal innovator and a compelling storyteller. Beginning with early interviews in fanzines and concluding with a new interview conducted in 2010, this volume collects widely ranging discussions from Chaykin's earliest days to his recent work.

In 1977, Dave Sim (b 1956) began to self-publish Cerebus, one of the earliest and most significant independent comics, which ran for 300 issues and ended in 2004. Through it he analyzed politics, the dynamics of love, religion, and, most controversially, the influence of feminism. This book includes the few interviews that Sim gave.

Michael Allred stands out for his blend of spiritual and philosophical approaches with an art style reminiscent of 1960s era superhero comics, which creates a mixture of both postmodernism and nostalgia. Michael Allred: Conversations features interviews with the cartoonist from the early days of Madman's success through to his current mainstream work for Marvel Comics.