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...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...
Stossel, who was an English concentrator and Crimson cartoonist during her time at Harvard, wrote a nostalgic poem—the text of the book—about the Square...
...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...
Smith achieves this principally through his near-prodigal cartooning talents. As attested by his numerous Harvey and Eisner awards for "Best Cartoonist" and "Best Writer/Artist," Smith draws panels that put more energy into a single line than many comics put into entire books. The action sequences, like the one where two dim-witted rat creatures chase the Bones through a precarious rock face, leave you near breathless with their dynamism. Even simple dialogue sequences stay visually interesting thanks to the expressiveness that Smith, a former animator, puts into his work. This key aspect of Smith's work makes "Bone" much...
...cartoonist delves so eagerly into the contents of his compromised cranium, he loses all sense of perspective. He seems to have no interest in the anguish of others--the actual victims, for example--or in why the attacks occurred. When he describes himself as "equally terrorized" by al-Qaeda and by his own government, he's giving us an equation that just doesn't balance. Yes, there are serious civil rights issues in the U.S. today, but Spiegelman personally has little cause to fear a dirty-bomb attack from Tom Ridge. And if his grasp of the problem is shaky...