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Comic Book Confidential

Introduction by Ron Mann
Screening on Film
Directed by Ron Mann.
Canada, 1989, 35mm, color, 90 min.

Using a combination of interviews, historic footage, and state-of-the-art animation techniques, Mann traces the origins and progress of the comic book medium and profiles R. Crumb, Lynda Barry, Stan Lee, Will Eisner, William Gaines, Bill Griffith, and sixteen more of the most significant artists working in the pre-Dilbert era.

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