Word: cartoons
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Sakura M. Christmas ’07 is a history concentrator in Winthrop House. Other than her undying love for bubble wrap, she likes playing Ultimate, telling dead baby jokes and making sound effects like this: mrrrwaap. Look for her cartoon on Tuesdays...
...crude affairs in the world of comix. Cartoonists tend to succumb to the genre's temptations of broad, easy caricature. Posy Simmonds avoids this with her particularly English dry wit. Rich with memorable characters, literary depth, cutting humor and pictorial panache, "Gemma Bovery" sets a new standard for intelligent cartoon satire in graphic novel format...
Death and taxes are supposed to be life's only two certainties, but Rieko Saibara has cut the list in half. The Japanese artist depicted her successful battle with tax authorities in Dekirukana: Datsuzei (Daring Tax Evasion), a book that began as a magazine cartoon column in which she recounted her real-life adventures. These included testing a homemade radiological monitor at a nuclear power plant and working at a hostess bar, where her job was to stroke the fragile egos of lonely...
Spongebob is under fre. Christian-right activist James Dobson last week claimed a video starring the kids' icon is "pro-homosexual." It's not the first time a cartoon character has caused a stir. --By Carolina A. Miranda and Logan Orlando...
...good life, and it might have gone on happily unexamined had Green Day not committed the ultimate act of laziness: releasing a greatest-hits album. In 2001 the group foisted International Superhits! upon the world, and like a cartoon boulder, it ended up flattening them. "Seeing a decade of your songs laid out like that is an invitation to midlife crisis," says Armstrong, 32. "Suddenly we were asking, 'Why are we in this band? Do we want to keep doing this? And, you know, what might happen if we challenged ourselves...