Word: alleys
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Though it amazes me that we have any at all, there are two coffee-table-style anthologies that come out each year. "Drawn & Quarterly Volume 4" arrives in September from Drawn & Quarterly, followed by Fantagraphic's "Blab #12" in October. "D&Q" includes classic reprints like early "Gasoline Alley" strips by Frank King, along with European and American artists. The "Blab" franchise leans on the less-comix, more graphic-arts side, with a greater avant-garde quotient. Frankly they both can feel overblown, but hi-end showcases like these need to exist...
Gray puddles fill the ruts along a cinder-paved alley leading to the Lianjiao Metal Processing Factory. The scene is typical of urban China's industrial districts; in Nanhai, a small city in booming, rough-and-tumble Guangdong province, scores of factories cluster together, their front yards choked with piles of twisted metal, junked plastic and old computer parts. But the killers who struck in the predawn hours of July 16 knew exactly which path would take them to their targets: Hou Kuo-li and Yeh Ming-yi, a pair of middle-aged businessmen from Taiwan who lived...
...school year. Ewan “come what may” MacGregor, his smile beaming and eyes twinkling, bewitched me into thinking that Hollywood-style, their-eyes-met-across-a-crowded-room love, or at least its sweaty-knockin’-boots-meet-me-in-the-back-alley step-cousin lust, was waiting just around the corner. (At the intersection of “I will always love you” and “Me so horny,” to be exact.) I had fooled myself into thinking that a summer at Harvard would be equivalent...
...badly do we need it? The week's economic reports are right up Wall Street's alley. Monday, the Commerce Department weighed in with business inventories (too much) - and Tuesday the Fed reports on industrial production for June (not enough). Wednesday comes consumer prices (well-contained - green light for Fed cuts) and Thursday it's weekly jobless claims (hopefully not as bad as last week's 9-year high). Friday, however, is all for the politicians - the Treasury Department reports on federal budget for June. Here's hoping we're still in the black...
Iroaki Doi and Mayumi Kumagai have come a long way to get lost. After a four-hour bullet-train ride from Hiroshima, the teenagers are lurking amid the neon signs of a seedy Tokyo alley, seeking a transgressive experience that will rip open the blandness of their days and allow them to escape, at least for a few hours, their part-time jobs, trade-school classes and cramped apartments. The vehicle they believe will help them achieve this temporary expansion of their consciousness: majikku masshurumu?magic mushrooms?shriveled bits of psilocybin-filled fungi that will first make them a little...