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...Barrett, the costume designer for the Matrix films, says that while designing, she attempted to avoid references to the present day, refusing to look at current fashion shows or even video games and comic books. "I wanted to go just from the script--to come up with clothes that weren't connected to a certain time or place," Barrett says...
Lucinda falls in love with her new home at first sight, and if The Quality of Life Report (Viking; 309 pages), a comic, caustic first novel by essayist and National Public Radio regular Meghan Daum, were any less honest, her story could have ended on page 15. But Daum's bittersweet deconstruction of Lucinda's illusions reads like The Bridges of Madison County etched in acid. Lucinda acquires a boyfriend, an apathetic woodsman named Mason Clay, who--while he bears a passing resemblance to Sam Shepard and says "warsh" instead of "wash"--turns out to be both much more...
...Line" is nothing if not the most easy-to-read kind of cartooning in the world. Rabagliati lays out the pages with simple blocks that vary enough in size and shape to avoid eye fatigue. Copying his pages would be an instant university course in how to pace a comic book...
...Paul Has a Summer Job" can be found at superior comic shops as well as bookstores both real and virtual...
Cole said previous winners have submitted on subjects as varied as the Berlin Subway system, butterflies, chess, Chinese cooking and comic books...