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...Eiland" and "Forlorn Funnies" can be found at superior comic stores...
...more accessible but no less interesting book comes from Lincoln, California and the pen of Paul Hornschemeier. "Forlorn Funnies" number one (Absence of Ink Comic Press; 32pp.; $3.95) mixes sophomoric humor with existential despair in a full-color extravaganza that constantly surprises with its design. The opening page shows an archetypical villain, stove-pipe-hatted, handlebar-mustachioed riding his horse. The panels of page two, on the underside, have been lightly printed in the background, backwards, as if you could see through the paper - a kind of literal foreshadowing. Comically frustrated in his villainy, he asks himself "At what point...
...maven Ruby Bhatia provided hyperbolic introductions ("His immense talent is about to unfold on this very stage!") to a dozen or so Indian musical acts that whipped the crowd into a cheerful frenzy. And subcontinental film celebrities came by to accept awards in such categories as Best Villain, Best Comic and Most Sensational Female...
...catch no ball, man," which stems from the Hokkien liah boh kiew. There's an exhaustive lexicon of such Singlish gems at talkingcock.com, a hugely popular, satirical website that inspired the movie. Its director, Colin Goh, has also published the Coxford Singlish Dictionary, which lovingly chronicles all the comic eccentricities of Singapore's argot. Since its April release, the book has sold over 20,000 copies?an extraordinary feat given that just 1,000 copies will get you on Singapore's Top 10 list. Singlish is especially fashionable these days among Generation Y, in part because it gives uptight Singapore...
...campaign, it's a movement. In Singapore, you associate campaigns with the message that if you trespass, we're going to punish you. A movement is different. We want to adopt a more lighthearted approach." This lighthearted approach spawned the recent SGEM Festival, a hapless exercise in unintended comic surrealism. Driving home from work, I would hear 'NSync-style pop jingles on the radio telling me to "speak clearly." On the cartoonish www.sgem.com website, I took a test to "Have Fun with Good English." I didn't?I failed the test because I wasn't sure whether it was more...