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...epic, broad and slightly comic--Brechtian, in the best sense of the word. And Armstrong's adenoidal whine, backed up by the rhythm section's precise fury, keeps the concept from ever becoming pretentious--or Brechtian in the worst sense...
JOHN LEGUIZAMO The Latino actor and comic makes his Spanish-speaking debut in Cr??nicas, a serial-killer thriller set in Ecuador...
...where Donald Trump can get his own reality TV series America badly needs "Hutch Owen: Unmarketable!" One of the few comic creators who daringly make art with a biased agenda, Tom Hart's roguish little conscience character makes for a stimulating acid against our base corporate culture. Short, ugly and abrasive, Hutch Owen is the anti-Pillsbury Dough Boy. Punch his tummy and he'll punch you back...
DIED. WILL EISNER, 87, comic-book pioneer; in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The person after whom comics' most prestigious award is named, Eisner helped launch a company in 1937 that created Dollman and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. Later he created the Spirit, a witty antihero with no superpowers who roamed back alleys in search of bad guys, and wrote one of the first graphic novels, about a Bronx, N.Y., slumlord, A Contract with God. "My interest is not the superhero," he said, "but the little man who struggles to survive in the city...
...Getting "Epileptic" published, even in comic-friendly France, was tough. To do it Beauchard co-founded a collective of six cartoonists called L'Association in 1990. "As we weren't able to get published by other publishers we decided to create our own publishing house," Beauchard says. "It was immediately a success and this success grew and grew. And now we are not a 'big' publishing house, but among the little publishing houses we are one of the bigger ones." Making editorial decisions collectively, L'Association has published other authors besides the original six, including Marjane Satrapi, author...