The Comics Journal Library: Drawing the Line [Paperback]

Gary Groth (Editor), Jules Feiffer (Collaborator), David Levine (Collaborator), Edward Sorel (Collaborator), Ralph Steadman (Collaborator)

Book Description

Series: The Comics Journal | Publication Date: November 30, 2004

A book of interviews with the foremost social commentators of our times.

The fourth volume in The Comics Journal Library's ongoing series of lavish coffee-table-book collections of interviews drawn from the Utne Award-winning magazine's archives, this volume gathers together the epic, exhaustive interviews with four of the sharpest social commentators of our times: Ralph Steadman, Jules Feiffer, Edward Sorel, and David Levine. Each definitive conversation will boast the generous amounts of illustration that TCJ Library readers have come to expect from each volume, as well as a full-color gallery of rarely seen work. Color and black-and-white comics throughout

Editorial Reviews

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It arrives too late for election season, but the latest entry in Comics Journal's series of collections of material originally published in its pages reprints lengthy interviews with four artists who have been engaged with politics for some four decades: Jules Feiffer, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning strip ran in the Village Voice for 41 years; David Levine, whose -often-savage caricatures have adorned the New York Review of Books for nearly as long; Edward Sorel, a prominent magazine illustrator who initially worked in the early 1960s for lefty journals including Ramparts and The Nation; and Ralph Steadman, best known for his caustic illustrations for Hunter S. Thompson's books. Interviewer Groth, Comics Journal's editor, brings thorough knowledge of the four artists' careers to bear on questions that elicit their passions for their work and the social causes that inform it. The book's oversize format--it's a paperback the size of a vinyl record album--is a bit unwieldy, but it gratifyingly accommodates the copious reproductions of the subjects' art. Gordon Flagg
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About the Author

Gary Groth is the founder of The Comics Journal and also the co-founder and co-publisher of Fantagraphics Books. He lives in Seattle.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books (November 30, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560975970
• ISBN-13: 978-1560975977
• Product Dimensions: 11.9 x 11.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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This review is from: The Comics Journal Library: Drawing the Line (Paperback)

A handsome packaging of material from Jules Feiffer, David Levine, and Ralph Steadman. The volume is a visual and verbal feast, wildly entertaining and informative. Thanks be to Fantagraphics!