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...contrast to such self-important autobiographies as Joe Esterhaz's Hollywood kiss-and-tell, comix have long been a haven for the story of the little guy. The marginalized nature of the medium has meant that virtually anyone can afford to put out a comic about his or her life. Harvey Pekar's "American Splendor," about the travails of a Cleveland file clerk, has become the best known ordinary-guy autobiography, but virtually every great cartoonist of the last twenty years has tried their hand at it. Two recent graphic novels are perfect examples of comix' ability to capture...
Starsky is fastidious to the point of compulsion and deeply paranoid. Hutch is so laid-back he's almost comatose, cool as a penguin holidaying on ice. In life they would be a screeching misalliance. In a more or less comic movie they are a match made in heaven. And it must be said that tense, tidy Ben Stiller and loose, louche Owen Wilson are perfectly cast in this movie version of the old TV series...
Pulitzer-prizewinning novels don't usually get comic-book tie-ins, but with Michael Chabon's comic-themed The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, the move makes sense. The Escapist (Dark Horse Comics), a new quarterly anthology series, collects stories starring the novel's Houdini-like superhero. The first issue includes the Chabon-written origin of the Escapist, with art by Eric Wight, along with several tongue-in-cheek tales by other comic-book writers and artists. Each one evokes a different period of the medium's history: Howard Chaykin turns in a '50s-style hard-boiled story...
About the piano: it’s a seemingly ancient little instrument which the Walkmen famously tote around from show to show, and it maintains a nearly comic presence on stage. It sounds part Fisher-Price toy, part tinkly player piano, and looks like the centerpiece of some 19th century saloon. But it comes in handy for the Walkmen, who use it centrally in “We’ve Been Had,” the first song written for Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me and the first single, familiar to some from the Saturn Ion car commercial...
This deception provides the comic meat of the film, with Alex employing a series of ever more ridiculous ruses to convince his mother that nothing’s changed. When Alex starts working for a West German TV company he becomes friends with his co-worker Denis (Florian Lukas), a budding filmmaker with grandiose dreams of success. In one hilarious scene, he shows Alex a wedding video he made in which he imitates a famous cut from 2001. When Alex’s mother wants to watch television, Alex and Denis film hours of fake news footage to reassure...