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...Justin Green, another underground original, makes a welcome appearance with his typically personal story that starts with a childhood correspondence course in cartooning and ends with accidentally drinking paint thinner. Other contributors include Chris Ware, Los Bros. Hernandez, Carol Lay, Dave Sim (with a refreshingly straight-forward appreciation of Alex Raymond), Jessica Abel and about 30 others, all of them "names." Maybe my favorite is Phoebe Glockner's anti-comic, "I Hate Comics." "I mean just look at this self-conscious crap," she begins, filling her panels with almost nothing but text. But it's still a comic...
...upperclassmen work together to evaluate the freshmen, and then they select one freshman to swim in every heat of every event in the last home dual meet of the year. Even during the diving breaks the iron man must keep on swimming. This year the appointment went to Alex Siroky...
...Bulldogs are young, fiesty and leading the league in wins. Draughan and classmate Alex Gamboa give Yale one of the Ivy’s best backcourt duos—they are second and third on the team in scoring, respectively. Yale has three other players averaging better than seven points a game, too. And, as their comeback win over Harvard showed, they’re resilient. The Bulldogs have the best shot at dethroning the P’s this year...
...rapid-response poster book, came out a month and half after the disaster and has now gone into a third printing. It consists entirely of tableaus and portraits by Marvel's top talent past and present. Strangely reminiscent of Soviet-era monumentalism, most of the pages are like Alex Ross' sober cover depicting a fireman walking towards us, cradling a dark figure amidst a hellish glow of smoking ruins. There are a few Superheroes tossed in, usually to maudlin effect, as when a group of firefighters have Iron Man, Thor and Capt. America hovering over them, holding candles like Renaissance...
...typical day, music analyst Alex Helsinger ’98-’00 says, he spends his time expanding obscure playlists, like the hardcore ska list...