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DIED. BILL PEET, 87, Disney artist and writer whose vivid stories were instrumental in defining the studio; in Studio City, Calif. Second only to Walt Disney in his talent for cartoon storytelling, Peet wrote the screenplay for 101 Dalmatians, created Dumbo and contributed to Fantasia, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. After retiring from animation in the mid-1960s, he wrote award-winning children's books...
Some of these literary, niche comics have inspired movies: last year's From Hell and Ghost World, this summer's The Road to Perdition. But they weren't introducing new men in tights to the mass consciousness. And with few exceptions, superhero comics became cartoon hackwork. "With Steve Ditko, Spider-Man had these sexual undertones to it that read as being the work of a singular artist," says Clowes. Today's successors, he says, are "just a 10th-generation regurgitation of the same stuff over and over." The comic crowd became older, insular and cultish while kids turned to video...
...GEORGE SIDNEY, 85, self-effacing director of some of MGM's most famous musicals, including Annie Get Your Gun, Kiss Me Kate and Show Boat; of lymphoma; in Las Vegas. He was instrumental in founding the animation company Hanna-Barbera and directed 1945's Anchors Aweigh, in which the cartoon Jerry the Mouse danced alongside Gene Kelly...
...rampaging police units. But off the road, in benighted hamlets, little has changed. "Most TNI still behave the same way?brutally," says Fitri, a 22-year-old volunteer with Care Human Rights Forum, known locally as FP HAM. Fitri produces half a dozen photo albums?the kind with cutesy cartoon bunnies on the cover?filled with shots of dead civilians, many showing signs of torture or execution-style killing. Merely collecting such evidence is increasingly perilous. The New York City-based Human Rights Watch claims humanitarian workers are now deliberately targeted by Aceh's military and police...
...mattered little in the past. More than a thousand civilians perished in the conflict last year; this year's death toll looks set to surpass that. Combat troops have also been issued with booklets explaining the rules of engagement. One, called The Pocketbook of TNI Soldier Etiquette, shows a cartoon depicting a soldier about to rape a woman fleeing her burning home before a principled comrade arrives just in time to stop the assault. In another, a soldier prevents his buddy from battering a prisoner with a club. "Stop!" reads the bubble above the good soldier's head...