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Finally, it may be possible to give a kid a comic again. It may even be necessary. After a long dearth of quality new comics for younger readers, a burgeoning swell of books has begun to bubble into bookstores. One of the breakers in this tide has been the series of "Little Lit" books, edited by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly. Aimed at readers of "all ages," the third volume, "It Was a Dark and Silly Night," has just arrived along with a "Little Vampire" series from France. So TIME.comix found its old blankee and went under the covers with...
...gateway drug," Spiegelman said by phone from his Manhattan studio. "[Comics] served to help our kids learn to love books as things as well as the ideas they contain." But after years of arguing that comics weren't just for kids, Spiegelman, author of the graphic novel "Maus," found himself in a peculiar position when trying to create "Little Lit." "[I]t was like finally some people were going, 'Yes! Comics are for adults,' and here we were kind of stupidly parading out into the battle zone going, 'Yeah but, wait, wait, comics aren't just for adults anymore...
...While it's directed at kids, "Little Lit" volume three (RAW Junior; 48 pp.; $19.95) will charm adults by making them feel like kids again. Its large dimensions make yours hands look tiny in comparison. Inside is a delightfully colorful mix of short new comics along with puzzles like Barbara McLintock's lovely find-the-differences page. Even the stiffest octogenarian could not resist perusing the bear's picnic for missing apples and extra toes. The comics are by an interdisciplinary group of writers and artists, all of whose stories begin with the line "It was a dark and silly...
...Below, Big Boi and Andre come together only briefly. (Andre co-wrote four tracks on Big Boi's album; Big Boi co-wrote and guest-raps once on Andre's.) Their synergy, on Speakerboxxx's Ghetto Musick and The Love Below's Roses, still produces OutKast's usual joyous, comic, hip-hop funk, with Andre's cross-genre futurism balanced by Big Boi's pop discipline. Separately, The Love Below rivals Prince's Black Album for both its exploration of Eros (a song called Spread) and its occasional self-indulgence (a Coltrane-inspired cover of My Favorite Things...
...films of the year, American Splendor skillfully manipulates the medium of film in the same way last year’s Adaptation toyed with the basic structures of the screenplay. Splendor’s foundation is the life of chronically cantankerous graphic artist Harvey Pekar, whose series of autobiographic comic books in the ’70s and ’80s captured the innate complexities of a simple existence and ultimately revolutionized the comic book industry. These books had a number of different illustrators, and the varying styles are translated by directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini into...