The best magazine about comics ever published is back with another amazing jam-packed issue.  Edited by comics aficionado extraordinaire, Todd Hignite, this 208 page signature-bound squareback is produced and printed to the highest of standards. Each and every article, interview, and feature centers on or is accompanied by excellent, high-resolution reproductions of original art, comics pages, prints, letters, photographs, and more; each a pleasure to behold.  This issue spans continents as well as centuries as we are treated to a truly eclectic assemblage of top comics talent.  Jerry Moriarity (Raw, Kramers Ergot, SVA) is visited by publisher Alvin Buenaventura; fellow NY hepster, KAZ, is profiled by Ben Schwartz; Tom de Haven goes long on Chester Gould's "Plainclothes Tracy;" Thierry Smolderen explores Lyonel Feininger's "Lost Continent;" the work of definitive Tarzan comics artist, Jesse Marsh, is examined by comics historian, Ron Goulart, and discussed by none other than Gilbert Hernandez and Adrian Tomine;  Jeet Heer pens an in-depth piece on New Yoker cartoonist Gluyas Williams and his relationship with E.B. White... and there's plenty more, it's too much to list, but here's a preview).  We can't sign-off on this issue, however, without mentioning the three one-page strips by Copacetic favorite, Dan Zettwoch, which features his dad's strips for the church newsletter(!).  And then there's the issue's bonus book, which might just be the best thing about the whole issue.  It's an 80-page paperback book that comes shrink-wrapped together with the magazine, it's written and illustrated by Ivan Brunetti, it's titled, Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice, it is described as a "classroom in a book,"  it represents the distillation of Mr. Brunetti's 15-week college course -- and it's yours free with Comic Art #9!  Is that a deal, or is that a deal? (NOTE: This is the original publication of the book that was subsequently published by Yale University Press and has since gone on to be used to teach comics in classrooms – and homes – all over the country.

This was published in 2007 and has long been out of print, but it is now BACK IN STOCK due to a WAREHOUSE FIND... However, now only ONE LEFT.