- The Education of a Comics Artist. Edited by Michael Dooley & Steven Heller.
An anthology of essays, interviews, and selected comic book pages about comic books, from more than sixty contributors. Arranged as a series of lectures, covers topics as varied as editorial cartoons, political comic strips, alternative Comix, European and Asian comics, comics’ relationship to other arts such as graffiti, graphical design, and illustration. And many, many more!!
As comprehensive a guide as one could hope, allowing for a truly wild variety of voices and ideologies. Personal highlights include Paul Krassner and Robert Fiore separately reflecting on censorship and pushing the envelope in comics; Heidi MacDonald giving us a guide to navigate Comic Conventions from the business side; Bill Griffith and Nicole Hollander sharing trivia about their respective groundbreaking comic strips (“Zippy the pinhead” and “Sylvia”); Trina Robbins analyzing the rise of romance comics and their subtle influence on later independent comics. And much more!!
Not only educative, but quite thought-provoking. Definitely recommended.
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