Issue 5 features profiles (that's interviews and art galleries) of Mort Walker ("Beetle Bailey"), Jack & Carole Bender ("Alley Oop"), editorial cartoonist Jeff Koterba, caricature artist Joe Bluhm, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast, and Justin Thompson (webcomic "Mythtickle"); mini interviews conducted by Scott Nickel with Alex Hallatt ("Arctic Circle"), Sandra Bell-Lundy ("Between Friends"), Stephanie McMillan ("Minimum Security"), Stephanie Piro ("Six Chix"), and Terri Libenson ("The Pajama Diaries"); a report on the recent USO-sponsored NCS cartoonists tour to the Mideast; plus articles/columns contributed by Tom Richmond, R.C. Harvey, Bill Janocha (who also drew the cover), Don Hagist, and John Hambrock. 
Cover art by Bill Janocha (In 2010, "Alley Oop" turns 77 & "Beetle Bailey" turns 60!)

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is the magazine for working cartoonists, aspiring cartoonists and fans of the art of cartooning.  Each issue features profiles (interviews and art) of professional artists who draw comic strips, comic books, editorial cartoons, caricatures, greeting cards, advertising illustrations, children's books, magazine cartoons, web comics, and/or who work in the fields of animation and gaming.  Rounding out the interviews are articles and columns pertaining to the art and business of cartooning in America.  Each jam-packed issue is loaded with drawings, photos and information that is sure to enlighten and entertain the aspiring cartoonist, as well as the seasoned practitioner.  With this unabashed "paean to professional cartoonists," publisher/editor John Read "endeavors to advance the knowledge of the craft of cartooning...and in so doing, increase appreciation for the value and relevance [of cartoonists] to our society."

  

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