The Magazine of Comics News and Criticism. TCJ interviews two prominent DC writers: first, Dirk Deppey sounds out the Eisner award-winning indie writer/artist Bill Willingham, whose Fables series has been embraced by both critics and fans worldwide! Then, in the second part of an interview too enormous to fit in one issue, Mike Catron gets the inside gossip on Silver Age DC from the prolific Bob Haney, creator of the Teen Titans and Metamorpho! (See #276 for the first part.) Plus: rare 1940's comics by Little Brown Jug animator Orestes Calpini; tribute to underground comix pioneer Jaxon; and a Chris Ware exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Also: reviews, letters and news. Cover by Bill Willingham.

Editorial
Michael Dean, "Goodbye Old News" (p. 18)
News
Greg Stump and staff, Journal Datebook (p. 50)
Interviews
Dirk Deppey, The Bill Willingham Interview (p. 64)
Michael Catron, The Bob Haney Interview pt. 2 (p. 168)
Reviews
Craig Fischer, Lost Girls (p. 136)
Tom Crippen, "Hey-Yoh!" (p. 139)
Noah Berlatsky, "Accepting Porn as Your Personal Savior" (p. 141)
Rich Kreiner, "The Ticking" (p. 144)
Kent Worcester, "Castle Waiting" (p. 147)
Rob Vollmar, "Pyongyang"
Frank Stack, "Everett Raymond Kinstler" (p. 152)
Tom Crippen, "Fun Home" (p. 154)
Rob Vollmar, "Zap Comix #15" (p. 156)
Donald Phelps, "The Squirrel Mother" (p. 158)
Tom Underhill, "Mome Spring/Summer 2006" (p. 160)
Greg Stump, "Art Out of Time" (p. 162)
Bill Randall, "Chicken with Plums" (p. 164)
Mini-reviews of "The Stacks", "Mutts Sunday Evenings" and "Cry Me to Sleep" (p. 166)
Essays
"A Tribute to Jaxon" With contributions from Patrick Rosenkranz, Gary Groth, R. Crumb, Kim Deitch, Spain, S. Clay Wilson, Gilbert Shelton, Frank Stack, Bill Griffith, Leonard Rifas and Victor Moscoso (p. 20)
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr., "Orestes Calpini Comics" (p. 98)
Columns
Greg Cwiklik, "Chris Ware at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago" (p. 186)
Jeet Heer, "Guy Davenport as Cartoonist" (p. 189)