The Comics Journal Library

Spanning ten issues from 2002 to 2016, Fantagraphics' The Comics Journal Library series collected lengthy, career-spanning interviews with legendary cartoonists, originally published in the pages of The Comics Journal. Each volume focused on a single creator, offering deep dives into their life and work, with the series most associated with the editorial vision of Gary Groth and the Journal's stable of critics. It matters as a definitive archive of the craft, preserving in-depth conversations that trace the evolution of alternative and mainstream comics through the voices of its most significant practitioners.