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That’s what I liked the most about Cometbus 57—it wasn’t just a bunch of cartoonists talking about themselves (although that is a big part of it). The interviews, by focusing so much on social elements of comics, create a picture of a local and highly connected world. In 1984, sociologist Howard S. Becker published a book called Art Worlds, where he demonstrated that art making was a social activity. It wasn’t about solitary artists working in a studio—without the person who formulates paint pigments for Winsor-Newton, the clerk at the art supply store, the assistant at the gallery, etc., art would be a different thing than it is.

I think that’s what you get in Cometbus 57—a glimpse into a “comics world” where the social relations are as important to making it work as are the individual cartoonists. Cometbus comes out of the punk rock world where the social aspect of the scene is much more obvious. But Aaron Cometbus performs a valuable service in bringing this aspect of comics-making to the surface in this series of interviews"     - THE COMICS JOURNAL