Word: childishness
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...name also made artistic and pragmatic sense. The comic book medium of the time consisted entirely of superheroes and gag books. Furthermore, these books had positioned themselves (and we live with this legacy today) as a childish treat akin to toy cars and baby dolls. How then to fit in works that were similar-looking but contained copulating, dope-smoking hippies and motorcycle club beat-downs? The answer was, and remains: You don't. You call it something else. So "comix" was born, or more accurately, evolved, just as the medium...
...comix" also makes sense as a tool for advancement of public perception. It doesn't serve the medium to continue to associate itself so strongly with a childish, comedic history. When a casual reader encounters the word "comix" for the first time they are forced to spend a moment considering that the medium has evolved to the point where even the noun to describe it has changed...
...recent ad in the New York Times, in lettering that resembled a childish scrawl, challenged readers to "sign up for the most important job in New York City." Fogel was among the job switchers who answered similar ads last year. In August he and 349 other recruits attended a pep-rally orientation for New York Fellows, an accelerated-certification program started by schools chancellor Harold Levy. "Urban education," Levy told the group, "has the same moral force as the civil rights movement." After four weeks of all-day classes on teaching methods and lesson plans, the 323 who stuck with...
...unadorned but nonetheless weird: Bjork, doing the eerie "I've Seen It All" from "Dancer in the Dark." The Icelandic singer once made a video with "Ren and Stimpy" animator John Kricfalusi, and here she looked like a winsome cartoon character in her meringue-y dress, alternating between a childish singsong and an operatic wail. Really, it might be worth getting rid of the Best Song category altogether, since it's basically been the same five songs for the last 15 years: one piece of Randy Newman hackery, one Disney song, one quasi-Disney song, one interesting song...
...sketched without sentimentality. Indeed, the real break The Red Thread offers from Arab Strap's previous albums may not be optimism so much as objectivity. Asked in an interview after their last release whether his lyrics were a kind of therapy, Moffat responded, "No, no. It's much more childish than that. I'd call it revenge," revenge upon estranged lovers who broke his heart, it is assumed...