Cartoonists Tell Us: What Do Comics Mean To You?
In honor of our big summer reader poll of favorite comics and graphic novels, we've asked a few very cool cartoonists to tell us — or really, draw for us — what comics mean to them.
The first comic book I ever read was an obscure DC title that I begged my parents to buy for me from a rotating rack at a New Jersey Turnpike rest stop. #306, Not the highest of high art, maybe — even the cover described S&B as "THE GREATEST SUPER-HERO TEAM SINCE — WHAT'S-THEIR-NAMES?" But still — that was the first inkling I had that comics could be portals to other worlds, purveyors of strange wonders, and certainly a hell of a lot more entertaining than
