A celebration of the great comic book writers culled from the pages of America's most respected comics magazine. From the cool passion of sci-fi and occasional comics writer Harlan Ellison to the soap opera explorations and genre twisting of X-Men writer Chris Claremont and Howard the Duck creator Steve Gerber, between 1966 and 1985 a generation of writers emerged that would change the face of American comics forever. Writers like Len Wein, Steve Englehart, Gerry Conway, Marv Wolfman, Denny O'Neill, Mark Evanier and Alan Moore infused comics like X-Men, Captain America and Swamp Thing with a progressive social outlook than ran directly in the face of decades of simplistic might-makes-right pseudo-moralising. "The Comics Journal Library: The writers" celebrates the ascendancy of writer-driven mainstream comic books with a series of revealing, in-depth interviews, many conducted while the writers were at the height of their influence.