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Teenage girls who, by some miracle, aren't automatically turned off by the insecure machismo of mainstream comicbooks would have to hunt pretty hard for stories that were remotely about their lives. How remarkable then that four different books, each by a woman cartoonist writing about growing up, have appeared or will appear this fall. Covering each book on a successive week in October, TIME.comix first examined Leela Corman's "Subway Series," about the tensed-up life of a modern, urban high-school girl. This week we go out to the 'burbs of the 1960s for Debbie Drechsler's rich...
...attended in the 1970s, she drew comics for the school newspaper. "I was studying fine arts," she remembers, "and I went through a period when I had to call them drawings with words, because comics seemed too lame." As it happened, the paper's editor was another aspiring cartoonist, Matt Groening, who went on to create The Simpsons, and they've been friends ever since. Barry, 46, currently draws a comic strip called Ernie Pook's Comeek, starring the eternally feuding sisters Marlys and Maybonne, which appears in about 20 alternative weeklies and has been collected in numerous books...
...cartoonist known as Jason, a 37 year-old Norwegian born John Arne S?ter?, really wants your attention. His first book, last year, asked us to "Hey, Wait..." Mixing melancholy, memory and the fantastical, "Hey, Wait..." made for a remarkable debut. (See the TIME.comix review.) Now, his follow-up commands us to "Sshhhh!" It's a double-entendre, of course. The book contains no dialogue. Still, readers should take the advice by quieting down to appreciate the deceptive simplicity of this interesting comix artist...
First published in France, "Epileptic" will appear in English as a two-volume set. Volume one comes out this month, with volume two tentatively set for late 2003. Though it may seem indulgent to put the life story of a not-very-famous cartoonist into two big books, in fact it matches the epic sweep of David B.'s ambitious approach. Combining both world and personal history, the center remains the author's older brother, Jean-Christofe, who begins having epileptic seizures at age seven. Living in France during the late 1960s, the Beauchards first try Western medicine but balk...
With 1952 an election year, a cartoonist named Walt Kelly created a character named Pogo and offered his creation as a candidate for President of the United States...