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...colleagues, however, the prize came as another affirmation of his innovative work. “It’s a great achievement to get this prize,” said Robert E. Cook, who succeded Ashton as the director of Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum. “It acknowledges not only a lifetime of outstanding work but his love of tropical forests as well.” Ashton’s research dates back to his years as a graduate student at Cambridge University, where he began his career doing fieldwork in Brunei. Ashton wanted to understand...
...Will Eisner, who died two years ago at 87, was a force in the medium - two media, really, comic strips and graphic novels - and as both an artist and an entrepreneur, for more than six decades. TIME.com maven Andrew Arnold calls him "one of comix' greatest forward-thinkers." In the biz from his teens (everybody started young in comics), Eisner wanted to break out of the newspaper-illustration straitjacket, saying, "A daily strip to me is like trying to conduct an orchestra in a telephone booth." So at 23, on June 2, 1940, he introduced The Spirit, which...
...stop the history tour here, in part because I've written about Kurtzman and EC comics at length on this site, in part because Andrew Arnold has written with a scholar's eloquence and a fan's passion on the later artists in the Masters of American Comics show...
...David Cameron: There are some signs of change. Arnold Schwarzenegger has shown? I mean, look, I profoundly believe the environment should be an issue the center-right grabs hold of. We believe that you care about what you pass on to your children. What's more important a part of inheritance than the planet? And the center-right recognize that there are lots of market-based solutions to environmental problems that we should be championing, so I think that on every grounds it's sensible for the center-right to be campaigning on these issues...
...thought all along was that Babel's toughest fight, like Crash's last year, would be to get nominated. Now that it has made the final five, it stands a decent chance of winning. So, even though former muscle-man Arnold Schwarzenegger pronounced it " Bar-bell" at last week's Golden Globes, the movie is now a smart-money long shot for the top prize. It could be the first time the Best Picture award went to a film that is mostly not in English, except for Rocky...