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Where does a stand-up comic with a newly acquired taste for playing killers go next? He has been talking to Richard Attenborough about doing a film on Mark Twain, his wife Olivia and Twain's progressively angry view of life. "Twain was one of the first to write about the American character, about us, but it became darker and darker. By the end he was so angry at God and at his life. A character like that, you look for those. They have everything...
DIED. SPIKE MILLIGAN, 83, British comedian; in Rye, England. With Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine and Peter Sellers, Milligan ruled Britannia's radio waves in the comic series The Goon Show during the '50s. His absurd, mildly grotesque characters caught on with the Beatles generation: without his work, John Cleese said, there "would have been no Monty Python...
...career was in 1997, when my friends in a band called Anodize asked me to do an illustration for their CD cover," he says. "I came up with five action figures, representing each member." Another friend, from the weekly East Touch magazine, asked him to create a comic strip the following year. The lead character was a skater dude named Maxx who had a gang of cool, streetwear-stylish pals. The Gardener collective was born. Since 1999, Sony Music Entertainment Television has owned the Japanese license to the Gardener series and has plastered them on key rings, T shirts...
...particularly comic moment ensued when the Crimson appeared to put away a short-angled volley to win a point. Harvard’s assistant volunteer coach, Michael Flanagan, sitting on the nearby bench, saw the ball coming at him and suddenly grabbed it after one bounce...
...then spoke of his own recent work, installations of large comix panels that hang from the ceiling, as an example of finding a gray area between these two types of art. When McGuire asked Ware if installations were something he would "get a charge out of," Ware shrugged. "A comic strip original is not necessarily something you get an aesthetic charge out of," he replied. More hopeful, Spiegelman piped in, "On the other hand, you put it on a wall - they look, you know...