The Comics Journal #81 - Wm Gaines Interview Sketchbooks with its ice cream smudged

with its ice cream smudged logic and playful escapism

Barnaby's Aunt Minerva (an author) comes to stay with the Baxters

exhibitions and events

and the emerging talents of Eda Akaltun

and prove (as if there's any doubt) that Kirby is King

The Comics Journal #81 - Wm Gaines Interview Sketchbooks with its ice cream smudgedInterview with EC and MAD publisher Bill Gaines. Essays by Jan Strnad, Bhob Stewart and Harlan Ellison. Kevin McConnell on the mutant menace. Plus reviews, columns, letters, and news. Cover by William Stout. Editorial Gary Groth and Peppy White, "Editorial" (p. 6) News Newswatch (p. 8) Interview Dwight R. Decker and Gary Groth, "William Gaines" (p. 53) Reviews Ted White, "Humor, History, Drugs, War, Music, Headaches, and Eyestrain" (p. 29) Gene