Typically strong issue。 As is often the case， the showpiece is a massive interview--100 pages， almost half the issue--with a cartoonist， in this case Cathy Malkasian， of whom I had never heard but whose work looks fascinating。 There are two other short interviews， with Sally Cruikshank and another artist I've never heard of， Ness Garza--an emerging talent， so it's great to see her get this sort of attention。 There are other interesting pieces here， including an article by Ho Che Anderson about h Typically strong issue。 As is often the case， the showpiece is a massive interview--100 pages， almost half the issue--with a cartoonist， in this case Cathy Malkasian， of whom I had never heard but whose work looks fascinating。 There are two other short interviews， with Sally Cruikshank and another artist I've never heard of， Ness Garza--an emerging talent， so it's great to see her get this sort of attention。 There are other interesting pieces here， including an article by Ho Che Anderson about his experience as an animator （the general topic of this issue is animation--Malkasian's main career has been in animation）， a fine article on Kaz （that still did not convince me of the merit of his work， which does little for me， despite Kaz's evident skill）， an appreciation of Garfield （which struck me as strange， given the drubbing Dilbert took in a recent issue， not to mention that Garfield has tended to be viewed at best with disdain by TCJ in the past）， and a few other short pieces。 The strangest of these is a printing of a comics story produced by adolescent James Kugler in the 1940s， followed by an appreciation by Paul Karasik。 This is odd because these never-published comics by a kid are described as "lost" and given high-tone descriptors such as "oeuvre，" which seems a bit much for amateur comics by a kid。 As such， they are fine enough， and Karasik correctly notes that Kugler shows a decent command of at least some of the conventions of comics-making， but I remain unconvinced that this is an example of ephemera that merited over thirty pages or further sustained study。 That said， there is some spectacularly violent imagery in the story printed here， very much in keeping with what one might expect of an adolescent boy， and Kugler's devotion is evident， given that something like a hundred pages of this stuff has survived。 。。。more