Squa Tront 14 (Squa Tront 14, 14)

The latest (and possibly last) issue of the greatest magazine devoted to EC comics ever published. Co-edited by Grant Geisman and John Benson, this issue includes previously unpublished interviews with Gene Colan and Russ Heath, a lavishly illustrated critical study of Atlas’ Kurtzman-inspired war comics by Benson, a Kurtzman remembrance by R.O. Blechman, an astounding reprint of The Hartford Courant’s campaign against “salacious and depraved” comics (i.e., EC), 12 page spread of Jack Davis’s Coca-Cola advertising images, and much much more. An essential historical feast for EC fans. Full-color and black-and-white

About the Author

Grant Geissman is the four-time Eisner Award-nominated author of several books related to the EC comics and Mad magazine, the most recent being The History of EC Comics (Taschen). He is also an Emmy-nominated guitarist and composer (for co-writing the theme to Two and a Half Men), and his most recent solo album, BLOOZ, was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2022. He lives in Los Angeles.John Benson has written about comics since 1956, in many venues, and has edited several comics anthologies for Fantagraphics, the most recent being The Sincerest Form of Parody, a collection culled from Mad comics knock-offs. In 1966 he put on the second two-day comics convention ever held. His interviews with pioneering cartoonists such as Harvey Kurtzman, Gil Kane, and Bernard Krigstein are legendary. He has been the editor of Squa Tront, the respected long-running magazine about EC comics and their creators, since 1974.

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