The Comics Journal #187

In this 1996 issue of The Comics Journal, Gilbert Shelton turns his sharp, self-aware wit on the comics world with a quietly surreal moment: a butler in a grand, book-lined room questions the artist himself—Gilbert—about how long he plans to stay, surrounded by towering stacks of French comics. A rare, fully self-contained story from Shelton, drawn, inked, and colored by him in his signature loose, expressive style, it’s a wry, intimate peek into the mind of a cartoonist lost in his own creative world.