Word: cartoonists
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...Scheherazade: Comics about love, treachery, mothers, and monsters" (Soft Skull Press; $20; 223 pages), edited by Megan Kelso, has been organized on a principle that is both fundamental and elusive: all the contributors are women. Unlike the more radical "We exist!" statements of past women cartoonist collections, Kelso uses the book to explore the more subtle theme of the way women treat the narrative form differently than men. She tantalizingly stops short of saying how they may differ, so part of the book's pleasure comes from thinking about this idea. A superficial flip-though won't provide an answer...
...another brief chapter in his sporadically printed series about a lonely young woman living in an apartment building. One remarkable page encapsulates the lives of the building's residents, along with a bee, through schematically arranged, interconnecting panels. The book also features "Drill Core Sample," by Gary Panter, the cartoonist's cartoonist since the 1980s. Comprised of one page from a sketchbook done in each of the last 30 years, it offers a fascinating slice of his evolving interest in the constructs of "cartoons." Of the work by relative newcomers, "My Sexual History (Slightly Abridged Version)," by David Heatley...
Nicholas G. Karvounis ’05, a former Crimson cartoonist who founded the magazine with Jonathan T. Stein ’05 and Jim L. Fingal ’05, said that he hopes the magazine will encourage liberals to stand for their own ideas, rather than only reacting to the right...
...subtlety or nuance to enrich the story and make you want to return, you simply consume the book in less than five minutes and declare that you "get it." Even the artwork lacks return appeal. This is surprising, as Kuper has one of the most unique styles of any cartoonist. He cuts out stencils and then spray-paints the images onto the surface, giving the work a splattery, fuzzy tone. But even the graphics, mostly rendered in a palette of grays with brief bursts of color, has an unappealing drabness to it. Kids will almost certainly find it dreary. "Sticks...
...Pretty soon after I graduated...I decided to do something in a Dr. Seuss style,” said Stossel, now an editor and cartoonist at The Atlantic Monthly. “I had recently moved to Brookline and I was missing Harvard Square so [I wrote] a reminiscing ode to Harvard Square type poem...