The Comics Journal Library Volume 10: The EC Artists Part 2

The Comics Journal Library Volume 10: The EC Artists Part 2

<p><strong>Collects career-spanning interviews with Harvey Kurtzman (creator of <em>Mad</em>), Wallace Wood, and many others who influenced game-changers such as Stephen King, George A. Romero, and Matthew Weiner.</strong></p><p>No comics publisher has had a greater impact ― or generated more controversy ― than the immensely influential EC Comics. The second and concluding volume of conversations with the creators behind the EC war/horror/science fiction/suspense line brings <em>The Comics Journal’s</em> definitive interviews together with several never-before-published sessions, including a new interview with the legendary Jack Davis conducted by Gary Groth. It also includes:</p><p>• Publisher Bill Gaines on the origins of the company and his terrifying grilling before the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency.</p><p>• Editor/writer/artist Al Feldstein on introducing serious science fiction to comics and his interactions with Ray Bradbury.</p><p>• Harvey Kurtzman on bringing realism to war comics with <em>Frontline Combat</em> and subversive satire to humor comics with <em>Mad</em>.</p><p>• The master of chirascuro, Alex Toth, on the aesthetic values that guided him through a career that included drawing for EC and animating <em>Jonny Quest</em>.</p><p>• Colorist Marie Severin on the atmosphere of pranks and anarchy that dominated the EC bullpen.</p><p>Plus, career-spanning interviews with George Evans and Jack Kamen, rare Q&A sessions with formal experimenter Bernard Krigstein and EC writer Colin Dawkins, and a conversation between Jack Davis and award-winning alternative cartoonist Jim Woodring.</p> Black and white with some color.