The Magazine of Comics News and Criticism. Now revamped with more pages, better paper stock and more color pages, The Comics Journal remains the finest source of comics-related news, reviews and commentary in the market today. This issue features an in-depth, career-spanning interview with writer and cartoonist Ed Brubaker, covering his life in comics from his early days as an indie cartoonist to his work for DC Comics on such titles as Batman and Sleeper. Sean Phillips (the artist behind Sleeper) provides this issue's cover. Also in TCJ #263: In a series of essays, our critics (and a few surprises recruited especially for this issue) take a closer look at one of the most renowned and controversial self-publishing success stories in comics history, Dave Sim and Gerhard's Cerebus! From the duo's many artistic accomplishments to Sim's many pronouncements on gender and politics, this roundtable will put it all into perspective for you as only The Comics Journal can. Also: The legal battle for Superman and Superboy; Jingle Jangle Tales; and the celebrated news and critical coverage that has won the magazine countless awards! Mature Readers.

News
Newswatch (p. 13)
Letters
Blood and Thunder (p. 10)
Interviews
The Ed Brubaker Interview (p. 59)
Essays
Rich Kreiner, "Can Cerebus Survive Dave Sim?" (p. 101)
R. Fiore, "Quixote Triumphant" (p. 103)
Bart Beaty, "My Life With Cerebus" (p. 110)
David Groenewegen, "Stories Within Cerebus" (p. 118)
Matthew Surridge, "Surviving Cerebus" (p. 121)
Colby Cosh, "Our Northern Neighbors, The Cirinists" (p. 125)
Renee Stephen, "An Open Letter to Dave Sim" (p. 129)
Eddie Campbell, "The Graphic Novelist's Manifesto" (p. 169)
Reviews
Kent Worcester, Political Comics Scattershots (p. 42)
R.C. Harvey, "Editoonists Attack" (p. 47)
Leonard Rifas, "We The People" (p. 48)
Sean T. Collins, "New X-Men" (p. 52)
Tim O'Neil, "Autobiographix" (p. 54)
Bullet Review (p. 56)
Columns
Opening Shot (p. 9)
Fun!Fun!Fun! (p. 170)
Journalista (p. 173)
Fighting Words (p. 177)
Comicopia (p. 178)
Minimalism (p. 183)
Lost in Translation (p. 188)
Time Out of Joint (p. 193)
Reprint
Jingle Jangle Comics (p. 136)