COMICS JOURNAL 295

Brian K. Vaughan, writer of Y: The Last Man, will take readers behind the scenes of the upcoming Y film, TV's Lost, his award-winning comic Pride of Baghdad and the politics that infuse his WildStorm series Deus Ex Machina, as well as his upcoming comics projects. Paul Karasik chats with Italian cartoonist Gipi about his Santa Maria video and animation studio, They Found the Car, Garage Band and Notes for a War Story. Visions of sugarplums and other holiday themes dance through the heads of comic-book and strip cartoonists in a special gallery drawn from 30 years of personalized Christmas cards.