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John Porcellino creates some of the most thoughtful, intelligent, sympathetic and, yes, beautiful comix in America. Good luck finding them. His "King-Cat Comics and Stories," has been around since 1989, but remains a photocopied, hand-stapled minicomic available only by mail or in the most extremely discerning comic/alternate media shops. Or so I thought. It turns out there are two high-quality, book-length collections of his work, both of which the TIME.comix staff happened to stumble upon this past week. "King-Cat Collection," (26pg; $5.95) published by B.u.L.b Comix of Switzerland, first appeared in 1998 and was just...
...both books Porcellino uses autobiography to explore the universal exquisiteness of everyone's life. "King-Cat Collection" does this mostly with one page retellings of momentary events, or dreams, or even just sensations. "Late Bus" wordlessly depicts a high school kid in that eerie time of staying late after school. He fills his backpack from the locker in an empty hallway. Putting on his coat and hat he steps outside to discover it's snowing! The one, last, sad schoolbus waits...
Swing a dead cat and you?ll hit a Republican in Washington who has an opinion about what the White House should do to juice up Bush?s flagging poll numbers. Some say he should go back out into the country and mix with the people. He should get off the stage and wade into the streets, factories and homes. That worked for Governor Bush during the campaign when times got tough, after all, and it just might help reverse the perception that the president cares about corporations more than regular people...
...Take another whirl with the poor cat and you?ll find someone who takes the opposite view. Folks in this corner believe Bush should look more presidential. He should stop goofing around with the nicknames and the jokes and sit up straight and act like the leader of the free world. You might think this kind of advice would confuse a White House - but in Bushland they?ve decided both sides are right. The president needs to hang with regular people - particularly regular people of color - and let his charms show, and he needs to find moments when...
...CAT-scan, negative...