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Since most comix artists lead lives sitting behind a drawing board, the best comix autobiography either explores the commonality of our lives, or tells really good anecdotes. Within the last two months the Cleveland-based artist J. Backderf, who signs his work "Derf," has released two outstanding examples of the latter. "Trashed" (Slave Labor Graphics; 48pp.; $6.95) recounts his days as a college-drop-out garbage man. "My Friend Dahmer" (Derfcity Comics; 24pp.; $2.95) tells of Backderf's remarkable high-school relationship with notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. The funniest book of the year so far, followed by the creepiest...
...stay-at-home mom Jane Collyer, 33, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, having her first of three children at 24 meant three words: mac and cheese. Besides getting by on cheap dinners, the Collyers drive a '92 Chevy Cavalier ("There's a lot of life left in it"), and husband Mike, an Ohio assistant attorney general, free-lances as a computer consultant. But, says Jane Collyer, they don't feel deprived, because they never had the perks--expensive cars, dinners out, overseas vacations--that some two-income couples get used to before they have to cut back for the children...
...being a CIA officer, beaten for three attempted escapes and spent more than a year in solitary confinement before his release on President Ronald Reagan's inauguration day. CONVICTED. JAMES TRAFICANT, 60, nine-term U.S. Congressman from Ohio, on 10 federal charges including bribery, fraud and racketeering; in Cleveland. Traficant may be expelled from the House of Representatives and faces up to 63 years in prison for taking bribes and kickbacks and filing false tax returns. EXTRADITION ORDERED.Of JURGEN HARKSEN, billionaire South African resident wanted by his native Germany to face charges of tax evasion and investment fraud; by order...
This practice has come under fire recently, with a February Supreme Court case, Simmons-Harris vs. Zelman, regarding the constitutionality of a Cleveland school voucher program. The program gave 82 percent of its vouchers to students attending religious schools, Sonne said...
...less beautiful than cc. When they die, I want to start again with new kittens, and I will have the comfort of knowing that I have helped save more animals as well as the pleasure of watching them develop their own unique personalities as they grow. GILL MCCLEAVE Cleveland, England...