Sept. 2008

This issue: Gary Groth interviews the entire Deitch family: Academy-award-winning Gene Deitch, whose wide-ranging career has spanned 60+ years, talks about doing illustrations for The Record Changer, directing cartoons such as Munro and Krazy Kat , and creating his comic strip Terr'ble Thompson ; underground comics pioneer Kim Deitch touches on his father's influence, reminisces about the New York-based scene and outlines the evolution of Waldo the Cat; and Mineshaft artist Simon Deitch and writer Seth Deitch tell their stories in a fascinating, Rashômon -like look at one of the most creative families in cartooning. Also: A look at the early comics of pioneering newspaper-strip cartoonist F. M. Howarth, Bill Randall on Seiichi Hayashi's seminal Gekiga novel Red Colored Elegy , R.C. Harvey's report from the recent Reuben Award weekend in New Orleans, and much more!Groth, Gary is the author of 'Sept. 2008', published 2008 under ISBN 9781560979388 and ISBN 1560979380.