The Comics Journal #295 is chock full of all the comicky goodness that you ve come to expect from our fine publication Check it out: Sean T. Collins interviews writer Brian K. Vaughan aboutY the Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways, Pride of Baghdad, how a career in comics led him to writing for the hit television series Lost, and much, much more. Paul Karasik presents a conversation with Italian cartoonist Gipi, who talks aboutGarage Band, Notes for a War Story, the Ignatz books and how he narrowly avoided a life of crime. Rob Clough offers us a chat with humor cartoonist John Kerschbaum, covering everything fromThe Wiggly Reader to Pete & Pussy to why he couldn t figure out why his first editors hated him so much. Michael Dean examines the page rates paid by theBest American Comics anthology series. Noah Berlatsky digs into the comic-book closet and finds out what s hiding back there R.C. Harvey examines the life ofFlash Gordon/Rip Kirby creator Alex Raymond. Our comics section this issue: Charles A. Voight s short-lived newspaper stripThe Theorist, in its entirety. The Comics Journal #295 around the comics world in 208 pages Don t miss it. "