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...Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon spun a riveting tale of superheroics’ glory days, 1939 to 1954, through the tale of Kavalier and Clay, two Jewish comic-creators and their spectacularly successful creation, The Escapist...
Here’s the premise: after the end of Chabon’s novel’s plot, Kavalier and Clay drop the Escapist project and leave the comic in the hands of other writers. The creation bounces around from firm to firm—but each company that takes on the project soon finds itself filing for bankruptcy. Perhaps there is something inherently flawed in the idea of a character who is a cut-rate Houdini knockoff representing an organization called The Golden Key battling the evil forces of The Iron Chain...
Favorite Work of Art: The clay pot I made in the 6th grade...
...point, placing a huge chunk of reddish clay on the wheel, Barnard alternatively pressed and stretched the shapeless mass into an imposing two-foot tall tower. Within minutes, he reshaped the mound into an attractive vase. He lifted it off the wheel and began to prod it with his fingers, smushing in the smooth, round sides and denting the upper lip quite a bit. “Now,” he says, satisfied, “it feels heavy...
...this “feeling,” the transcendent quality of a piece, is for Barnard what makes his art worthwhile––not necessarily the process of forming clay into vessel. According to him, throwing is “just a technical thing…some people just have a facility, you know, they can take clay and they can really stretch it and get a lot out of it. I always feel like I’m struggling. I’m struggling right...