{"product_id":"the-comics-journal-302","title":"THE COMICS JOURNAL #302","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Comics Journal\u003c\/em\u003e has been the world’s foremost critical magazine about comics. It is now more vital than ever, a gigantic print compendium of critiques, interviews, and comics. This comics criticism annual feature career-spanning interviews with \u003cstrong\u003eMaurice Sendak\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eJacques Tardi\u003c\/strong\u003e, a kids’ comics roundtable moderated by \u003cstrong\u003eArt Spiegelman\u003c\/strong\u003e, and much more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis edition’s cover feature is a long, intimate interview-portrait with and of Maurice Sendak, the greatest and most successful children’s book author of the 20th — and 21st — century, the author of \u003cem\u003eWhere the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, Higglety Piggelty Pop,\u003c\/em\u003e and the illustrator of works by \u003cstrong\u003eHerman Melville, Leo Tolstoy, \u003c\/strong\u003eand\u003cstrong\u003e Randall Jarrell.\u003c\/strong\u003e In his longest published interview, Sendak looks back over a career spanning over 60 years and talks to Gary Groth about art, life, and death (especially death), how his childhood, his parents, and his siblings affected his art and outlook, his search for meaning — and also, on the lighter side, about his love (and hate) of movies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKim Thompson\u003c\/strong\u003e conducts a career-spanning interview with French graphic novel pioneer Jacques Tardi; the two will explore the Eisner Award-winner’s genre-spanning oeuvre comprising historical fiction, action-adventure, crime-thriller, \u003cem\u003eicepunk\u003c\/em\u003e and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOut of Print. Condition: Fine. \u003c\/strong\u003eBumped corners and light edge wear.","brand":"Fantagraphics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59643815067934,"sku":"RB7664","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/RB7664-comics-journal-302.jpg?v=1784520673","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/the-comics-journal-302","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}