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Romero, and Matthew Weiner.\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo comics publisher has had a greater impact — or generated more controversy — than the immensely influential EC Comics. The second and concluding volume of conversations with the creators behind the EC war\/horror\/science fiction\/suspense line brings \u003ci\u003eThe Comics Journal’s\u003c\/i\u003e definitive interviews together with several never-before-published sessions, including a new interview with the legendary Jack Davis conducted by Gary Groth. It also includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e• Publisher Bill Gaines on the origins of the company and his terrifying grilling before the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e• Editor\/writer\/artist Al Feldstein on introducing serious science fiction to comics and his interactions with Ray Bradbury.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e• Harvey Kurtzman on bringing realism to war comics with \u003ci\u003eFrontline Combat\u003c\/i\u003e and subversive satire to humor comics with \u003ci\u003eMad\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e• The master of chirascuro, Alex Toth, on the aesthetic values that guided him through a career that included drawing for EC and animating \u003ci\u003eJonny Quest\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e• Colorist Marie Severin on the atmosphere of pranks and anarchy that dominated the EC bullpen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlus, career-spanning interviews with George Evans and Jack Kamen, rare Q\u0026amp;A sessions with formal experimenter Bernard Krigstein and EC writer Colin Dawkins, and a conversation between Jack Davis and award-winning alternative cartoonist Jim Woodring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGary Groth\u003c\/b\u003e is the co-founder of \u003ci\u003eThe Comics Journal\u003c\/i\u003e and Fantagraphics Books. He lives in Seattle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Dean\u003c\/b\u003e lives in Seattle, WA. He has been an editor at \u003ci\u003eThe Comics Journal\u003c\/i\u003e since 1999.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn addition to his pioneering work on the “serious” EC war comics, \u003cb\u003eHarvey Kurtzman\u003c\/b\u003e (1924-1993) created the all-time greatest satirical comic (with \u003ci\u003eMAD\u003c\/i\u003e), the most widely-read adult comic strip (with “Little Annie Fanny” in \u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e), and one of the earliest graphic novels (with the 1959 \u003ci\u003eThe Jungle Book\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Maxwell \"Bill\" Gaines\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1922, d. 1992) inherited EC Comics in the 1950s. 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