No comics publisher has had a greater impact -- or generated more
controversy -- than the immensely influential EC Comics. The second and
concluding volume of conversations with the creators behind the EC
war/horror/science fiction/suspense line brings The Comics Journal's
definitive interviews together with several never-before-published
sessions, including a new interview with the legendary Jack Davis
conducted by Gary Groth. It also includes:
- Publisher Bill Gaines on the origins of the company and his
terrifying grilling before the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile
Delinquency.
- Editor/writer/artist Al Feldstein on introducing serious science
fiction to comics and his interactions with Ray Bradbury.
- Harvey Kurtzman on bringing realism to war comics with Frontline
Combat and subversive satire to humor comics with Mad.
- The master of chirascuro, Alex Toth, on the aesthetic values that
guided him through a career that included drawing for EC and animating
Jonny Quest.
- Colorist Marie Severin on the atmosphere of pranks and anarchy that
dominated the EC bullpen.
Plus, career-spanning interviews with George Evans and Jack Kamen, rare
Q&A sessions with formal experimenter Bernard Krigstein and EC writer
Colin Dawkins, and a conversation between Jack Davis and award-winning
alternative cartoonist Jim Woodring.