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Interview by Gary Groth, discussing his approach to historical fiction and his response to Michael Ventura's claims of racism.
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The Comics Journal: Interviews Ventura and an accompanying essay condemning the book's main character, John Wesley Hardin (by Jesse Sublett The book is a dramatic account of one of the most volitile periods of American history how white Texans dealt with post-Civil War Reconstruction....Ron Evry reviews this graphic novel about political violence in 19th-century Texas.
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The Comics Journal: Reviews Texas has always had a unique place in American culture. Well before Edison had The Great Train Robbery filmed in 1903 (with the wilds of Orange, New Jersey substituting for the Wild West tales of the Texas cowboy sparked the...Michael Ventura reviews Jackson's historical novel, calling it inaccurate and racist.
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Books: Graphics Hardin is what they call a graphic novel. Well, it's graphic enough without pictures, the 148-page story would shrink to maybe 25 pages, if that. But is it a novel? Or has Jackson abducted the word just because he has...Brief profile of the artist.
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Jack Jackson He is generally credited with having created the first underground comic, God Nose, and cofounded Rip Off Press, one of the first independent publishers of underground comics. Today he is more widely known as a cartoonist-historian specializing in the history...