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...since Bullwinkle has a big-nosed cartoon character been so cool -- or blundered his way into so much trouble. But Joe Camel is no ordinary creation. Conceived as a cross between Don Johnson and James Bond, the self-proclaimed "smooth character" found in Camel cigarette ads has, in the past three years, thrust the brand toward the top of the charts among the spring-break...
...typifies Aron's philosophy: cartoon-like, fluorescent pink and yellow "B"s cover the Blunsten family couch and copious moneybags litter the office of the Tycoon, played by Thomas M. Lauderdale...
Vladek tells how he adjusted to camp life and helped learn to survive by teaching English to a Polish kapo, or head prisoner--Poles are pigs, Germans cats, Americans dogs and French frogs in the cartoon world of Maus. The reader also learns of Vladek's attempts to help his wife, who was imprisoned in Birkenau, a much larger camp near Auschwitz. "There it was just a death place with Jews waiting for the gas," Vladek says...
...Crimson recently spoke with Art Spiegelman, author of Maus and the recently released Maus II, cartoon books which chronicle his father's experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camp. The following are excerpts from that conversation...
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. One day your kids will be taking their kids to this sumptuous Disney cartoon. Adults will be touched too, by a parable about the tyranny of convention and the liberation of love. It's also about magic mirrors, singing candlesticks and the art of drawing pictures that move people. A fairy tale for all ages...