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Finally, girls are getting their comics back. Having been abandoned by most U.S. comic publishers several decades ago, American girl comic readers have started voraciously consuming shojo manga, the Japanese comics genre targeted to young females...
...arguably, as important to VH1's identity as the musicians are people like comic Mo Rocca (The Daily Show). He has appeared on enough clip shows--70s, 80s and the new Best Week Ever--that one might believe VH1 has him chained in a basement studio. "I consider myself the David McCullough of '70s and '80s pop culture," says Rocca, who notes that the affection for that culture is not limited to people old enough to remember those decades. "I speak at colleges, and the kids are nuts over these series," he says. "They don't know anything about...
...Paul Hornschemeier's ambitious "Mother, Come Home," makes for the first really interesting comic of the year. Many will instantly see a similarity with Chris Ware, author of "Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth." Hornschemeier certainly shows good taste in his influences and will undoubtedly make ever more unique and valuable works...
...Vomit in the Howard Stern biopic Private Parts and portrayed a cowardly orangutan in the remake of Planet of the Apes. So when he was approached to play Harvey Pekar in American Splendor, it seemed to be just business as usual--except that Pekar, the notably depressive writer of comic books about his grim life and glum times, was also going to be in the movie...
...tape recorder and television set, long before most families owned them. And my beautiful, childlike mother had already instilled in me a belief in magic, feeding my love of fairy tales and storytelling. I was an avid reader of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm and comic books...