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...Subway Series" can be found at better comic book stores and through online booksellers...
...main themes in "Boulevard," and a main theme in all of Kim Deitch's work, is the blurring of fantasy and reality. One typical scene depicts the recording of sound for a Waldo picture. The comic cuts back and forth between what's happening in the cartoon and what's going on in the studio. The cartoon is itself a parody of what goes on in the animation studio. Finally, the cartoon characters appear to step off of the screen and into the same space as the "real" people. But Deitch goes one further - mixing up true reality with...
...Boulevard of Broken Dreams" can be found at any bookstore and better comic shops...
With all this socially relevant drama, a little unabridled fun is needed. The gem of the season for this kind of relief is Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado. This beloved and immensely popular comic opera concerns the love-struck Nanki-Poo and his disguise as a trombone player to search for the gorgeous Yum-Yum. As to be expected from Gilbert and Sullivan, ridiculous situations ensue. Plus, with the immensely talented team-up of Naomi Straus ’04 and Abigail Joseph ’04 designing the wacky, colorful costumes, expect The Mikado to rock...
...Know! A Guide to Success, or, Failing That, Happiness. A five-time Emmy winner and one-time Grammy winner, Franken’s previous best-sellers include Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot. Almost everything. You name it, I don’t know it. Biology, physics, comic books, cars. Trees, bridges—how they work. No engineering at all. Refrigerators. Chemistry. I think you just look at the course catalogue and eliminate everything—I know a little bit about government and politics, comedy. I know a little, little bit about film and something about...