The Comics Journal 311, edited by Gary Groth, Kristy Valenti and Austin English. $22.99 220 pages, published by Fantagraphics.

This issue features a 40 page interview with one of the most significant cartoonists in the world today Kate Beaton, conducted by the great Sarah Glidden. The interview is one of the longest discussions/studies in print with one of comics most prominent storytellers. And that's not all! Writing on Dorothy Iannone, Victor Cayro, a long interview with underground legend Gilbert Shelton! A discussion with Jeffrey Lewis! Art by Marc Bell, Gerald Jablonski. This is a publication overflowing with the beauty and potential of the form.  If you think long form and serious journalism & criticism in comics doesn’t exist, this issue refutes that.