Dooley (writer and contributing editor to PRINT magazine) and Heller (art director of the New York Times Book Review) collect interviews with and contributions from prominent comics artists, along with others that study the medium, in an anthology designed to be of use in an art school class dedicated to the broad range of the field of comic art. The contributors of the 59 pieces address artistic and business questions, along with issues of comics art education. They include such figures as Marvel Comics illustrator Bill Sienkewicz; Bob Mankoff, the cartoon editor at The New Yorker; Maus creator Art Spiegelman; Bill Griffith, writer of Zippy the Pinhead; Get Your War On satirist David Rees; and Will Eisner of The Spirit fame. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)