The Comics Journal 303

The long-awaited New Yorker issue. Gary Groth talks to Fran�禮oise Mouly, the magazine's art editor and discusses how cover illustrations by artists like Art Spiegelman, Barry Blitt, Lorenzo Mattotti, Semp�穢, Chris Ware, Peter deS�穡ve, and Joost Swarte are conceived and executed. Interviews with such arists as Gahan Wilson, Harry Bliss, Bob Mankoff, Roz Chast, Victoria Roberts, George Booth, and Sam Gross. Be a fly on the wall on cartoon pitch day. Take a stroll through The New Yorker's venerated history of cartooning. Plus essays, galleries and more.