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...GUERRILLA CARTOONIST...
Saibara attended art school in Tokyo, but she wasn't considered talented. To make ends meet, she began drawing for pornographic magazines. Publishers noticed the humorous comments she added to compensate for her lack of drawing skills; by junior year in college she had debuted as a cartoonist. After her series about losing $500,000 in illegal mah-jongg became a hit, she went on to cultivate her personal style of manga (the Japanese term for comics), which now has many imitators. Says Saibara: "People who can draw well are too proud to do anything, and many of them...
...political cartoonist labeled it the "Apology Address," and Tung had several reasons for mea culpas. In a poll released ahead of the address, 65% of respondents said they had no confidence in him and many in Hong Kong believe he lost hold of the territory's rudder when Beijing stepped in nine months ago to slam the door on the possibility of direct elections of his successor in 2007. With only 30 months left-by law, he isn't permitted to seek a third consecutive term-Tung's lame-duck slide has been accompanied by a startling rise in public...
...Melinda Gebble, an erotic fantasy that's pricey ($75) and edgy (the publisher says the work "seeks to reinvent pornography as something exquisite"). Bizarro World (DC Comics, February) will feature many alternative comic artists giving their take on DC's superheroes. And Pyongyang (Drawn & Quarterly, September) will chronicle cartoonist Guy Delisle's trip to North Korea's capital...
...cartoon on the cover of the book, “Today’s Random Medical News from the New England Journal of Panic-Inducing Gobbledygook” by Cincinnati Enquirer cartoonist Jim Borgman, shows a newscaster at his desk with three multicolored wheels-of-fortune at the top of the screen. After pressing a button on the desk, the newscaster prepares to report the following random result: COFFEE can cause DEPRESSION in TWINS...