This issue features an in-depth, personal conversation between Kate Beaton and Sarah Glidden about depicting history, humor, and social issues in comics form; a profile of Gilbert Shelton; an interview with musician and cartoonist Jeffrey Lewis and much more.

Featured in this issue: An in-depth, personal conversation between Kate Beaton (Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands,Hark! A Vagrant) and Sarah Glidden (Rolling Blackouts), from the Pizza Island comics collective, about depicting history, humor, and social issues in comics form; a profile of Gilbert Shelton (Zap,Fabulous Furry Freak Bros.), which includes a never-before-published-in-English Shelton Hagiography by French cartoonist Pic; and an interview with musician and cartoonist Jeffrey Lewis (12 Crass Songs,Fuff). Plus: An Imaginary Publication Cover Gallery by Marc Bell (Hot Potatoe); a new manga column that puts classic and contemporary manga (Kamen RiderandHunter X Hunter) in concert; a publishing roundtable on how to grow the adult audience for comics; a deep dive into an underdiscussed Charlton cartoonist, Enrique Nieto; a case for fine artist Dorothy Iannones work as comics, and much more. Full-color illustrations throughout