Word: chapter
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...Originally TIME.comix ran on a weekly schedule. Gradually it has slowed. This is mostly due to my own increasingly busy life, but also reflects a shift in the market. When TIME.comix began there were far more chapter-length comic books than there are now (manga excepted). Gradually the focus in the "alternative" comix industry has become more on completed long-form books that can be sold through regular booksellers, beyond just comic specialty shops. This reflects the major shift in public interest towards graphic novels that TIME.comix has born witness to, and I'd like to think, in some small...
This issue of TIME marks a new chapter for us. The magazine has a new look and structure. Every issue of TIME tells a larger story about the world we live in, and we wanted to create a design that would best present that story. It's part of a series of changes--beginning with the shift this past January of getting the magazine to you before the weekend--that we are making to create a TIME that is more meaningful and more forward looking. Yet even as we modernize the design, we are also harking back to our roots...
...life was filled with the battle against communism, which we defeated. What is happening beyond that is yet another chapter. The enemy now is like an octopus, so amorphous that it can't be killed," Magor continues his dark appraisal of the new order. But there's a resignation to his anger: "While communism can be defeated," he says, "the current system...
...meat business. "I love the pig and like the pork," he writes. While his musings about pigs are affectionate, Reynaud, 40, avoids sentimentality by refusing to gloss over the animal's journey from pen to plate. Instead he makes a feature of it, opening the book with a chapter titled "Pig-Killing Time at Saint-Agrève" (his mountain hometown in the Ardèche region of France) that is a frank, celebratory portrayal of the "taking apart and devouring" of one of the locally raised swine...
...could have been a plot from Revenge of the Nerds. In December the Delta Zeta sorority, struggling to combat its bookish reputation, booted 23 students from its DePauw University chapter, saying the sisters were neglecting their recruiting duties. The 23 young women, who insisted that they were shown the door because they were not pretty enough, scored a plus-size payback when DePauw President Robert Bottoms decided that, come September, it would be the Delta Zetas who would no longer be welcome on campus. Of the expulsion, Bottoms said, "We believe the values of our university and those of Delta...