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...straight play cannot do.” Emily J. Carmichael ’04, first-time author of the touching three-part short play The Impossibles, writes in an e-mail that she too is interested in being a writer, but “also [a] painter, animator, cartoonist and rouge space pilot...
...This third installment examines Barry's "One Hundred Demons" (Sasquatch Books; 224pp HC; $24.95), the first work of (nearly) non-fiction by the veteran alternative weekly cartoonist. Whatever she wants to call it, Barry's book creates a poignant mix of what makes our lives both comical...
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...