America's Finer Diners

January, 1999

Is there more to the comics than meets the eye? You bet--enough to fill two hefty histories. For the first time in more than 20 years, editor Maurice Horn has revised his crucial reference book The World Encyclopedia of Comics (Chelsea House) with 1400 entries on artists, plots and character descriptions. Comics Between the Panels (Dark Horse), by columnist Steve Duin and Dark Horse founder Mike Richardson, is anecdotal, opinionated and breezily entertaining, following the funnies from the Thirt...