Comics As Art: We Told You So tells of Fantagraphics Books' key role in helping build and shape an art movement around a discredited, ignored and fading expression of Americana the way insiders share the saga with one another other: in anecdotal form, in the words of the people who lived it and saw it happen. Comics historian and critic Tom Spurgeon and long-time Comics Journal editor Michael Dean assemble an all-star cast of industry figures, critics, cartoonists, art objects, curios and ground-breaking publications to bring you 40 years' worth of insight.