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This time it worked, because Busta Rhymes is an anachronism in rap music, a popular artist who gets by on lyrical skill and wit alone (taking hot beats for granted). Technically speaking, he’s an emcee’s emcee—he spits rhymes with perfect breath control, speeding up and slowing down, stopping and starting at will, lyrically careening all over the beat without losing a drip of flow. And for all his lyrics, he doesn’t say a damn thing, or at least nothing that isn’t needed to rock...
...council does get the money it seeks, nothing revolutionary is scheduled. Instead of one council-funded hypnotist show, there will be two. Busta Rhymes might be displaced by an artist still enjoying the limelight. Stand-up comedy routines would grace Fallfest...
...Eisner Award nominations for Best Short Story and Name Deserving of Wider Recognition, and a Harvey Award nomination for Best New Talent. The hat trick: Top Shelf will be reprinting the original book next month in a spiffy new edition. Here is your chance to catch up on this artist's sharp comedy, thoughtful characterizations and cartooning pizzazz...
...collection of short works that originally appeared on the Web (and still do, at http://www.lowbright.com/), they run a gamut of styles, from serious short fiction to satire to autobiography. While "Same Difference" has the quality of a young artist looking for his own voice by mimicking others, Kim adds enough smarts and talent to make it all seem fresh. One of the most important ingredients is a frisson of Asian American spice. Born in Korea and raised in the States from the age of eight - Korean Americans call such immigrants "1.5"s - Kim's comix stand virtually alone...
...True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths." Some years ago Bruce Nauman spelled out those words in a now famous electric wall piece. An exalted statement in burger-bar neon. Did he mean it? To this day we don't know. But if there is something about contemporary art that you find baffling or unnerving or belligerent, chances are Nauman is somewhere behind it. Years before Damien Hirst submerged a sliced shark in formaldehyde, Nauman made his own comment on flesh and death called Carousel: four metal arms swing in a circle like a ceiling fan, with...