The Magazine of Comics News and Criticism. In this issue: Spring's in full swing, and TCJ celebrates by bringing you a cover interview with Vertigo artist and Scary Godmother creator Jill Thompson! It is a fun, career-spanning chat with the Eisner Award winner that should not be missed. This issue also boasts an interview with the incomparable illustrator and cartoonist Michael Kupperman (a.k.a. P. Revess). The creator of the unsettlingly funny comic strip, "Up All Night," and author of the book Snake 'N' Bacon's Cartoon Cabaret talks about his life and art in a lively conversation guaranteed to be minty fresh. Plus: Tom Spurgeon weighs in on Box Office Poison, and a look at legal battles over Marvel Comics, 2002 edition. And as always, this issue is rounded out with the award-winning news, indispensable criticism and informative columns you would expect from the only insightful magazine about comics art. Mature Readers.

News
Newswatch (p. 7)
Letters
Blood and Thunder (p. 3)
Interviews
The Michael Kupperman Interview (p. 46)
The Jill Thompson Interview (p. 66)
Reviews
Tom Spurgeon, One Pound, 13.9 Ounces: Box Office Poison (p. 31)
Kent Worcester, The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre and Other Aspects of Popular Culture(p. 34)
Ng Suat Tong, Little Lit Volume 2 (p. 36)
Rich Kreiner, Speak Softly and Carry a Beagle: The Art of Charles Schulz at the Norman Rockwell Museum(p. 40)
Jeet Heer, In the Floyd Archives(p. 43)
Bullet Reviews (p. 44)
Essays
Domingos Isabelinho, Beyond the Grid I: Guido Buzzelli (p. 105)
Matthias Wivel , Beyond the Grid II: Palle Nielsen (p. 111)
Columns
Lost in Translation (p. 91)
Funnybook Roullette (p. 97)
Minimalism (p. 99)
Meet the Comics Press (p. 101)
Comicopia (p. 103)