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...motif: old newspaper comics. Explaining that these "unpretentious ephemera from the optimistic dawn of the 20th century" were "the only cultural artifacts that could get past my defenses," Spiegelman works them into the strips in new and unexpected ways. Rudolph Dirk's Katzenjammer Kids, two of America's earliest cartoon troublemakers, now appear as the twin towers personified. In another strip Spiegelman depicts himself as Jiggs, the Bringing Up Father prole turned jumpy hubby who now watches too much CNN. The artist mimics the old works expertly, along with a wide variety of other artistic styles that reflect the author...
...Berry version. But Searcy knows that a person tormented by questions of image and identity can find encouragement in the message of Genesis 1: 27: "So God created people in his own image." That biblical quotation is projected on the screen, which also features an icon of a smiling cartoon Catwoman sporting purple tights, a feather boa and a whip...
...Dakar, the capital of the West African country of Senegal, eight artists hunch over their drawing boards, sketching scenes for a new animated television series. The Invincible Lions of Africa revolves around soccer-playing animals who teach moral lessons while "projecting positives about football and about Africa," says the cartoon's creator, Pierre Sauvalie. "Africa needs to show its stories and one of the best ways is through cartoons. Their appeal is universal." When you think about the $75 billion global animation industry, what comes to mind is the stunning computer-graphic magic of Pixar or the irony-laced...
...sync. (In normal locomotion, people swing the right arm forward with the left leg.) Out on the track, Suetsugu's stealthy ninja stride makes the traditional runners look like a bunch of Forrest Gumps with ramrod-straight backs, high-kicking knees and arms churning like something out of a cartoon. The technique obviously works: in addition to his 200-m bronze last year, Suetsugu took a surprise silver in the 100-m at a Grand Prix meet in Zagreb in June, ahead of England's Darren Campbell, the world bronze medalist. Nanba is employed by athletes in other sports: veteran...
...that crowd most American downtowns. Nobody wants to summon back the naive techno-optimism of the 1950s and '60s. All the same, spend an hour at moma, and you can't resist gathering these buildings into an imaginary skyline as sexy as anything from TV's space-age Jetsons cartoon. Remember when the future was fun? Perhaps it still is. But scary fun all the same. After 9/11, skyscrapers first have to be places where people can feel comfortable on those high, exposed floors. Military-style security has re-entered the thinking of civilian architects in a way not seen...