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...Emergency Relief" can be found at any comicbook store. "World War 3 Illustrated" #32 will be hard to find. Places that sell alternative media would be more likely to have it than comicbook stores. You can also order single issues by writing: World War 3 P.O. Box 20777 Tompkins Square Sta. New York...
...Next week TIME.comix examines "September 11" Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, jointly-published by DC, Dark Horse, Image, et. al. Also "Heroes," "The Amazing SpiderMan" #36, and "A Moment of Silence," all published by Marvel. These books are available at any comicbook store...
...Wrong for All the Right Reasons" can be found at better comicbook stores as well as the publisher's website...
...rare to see comix used this way. Glenn Dakin's early Abe stories ingeniously fold conventional comicbook narrative, superheroes and sci-fi, into works of whimsy and reflection. His subversive use of a superman icon pre-dates Chris Ware's similar usage (though without the bitter irony) by more than a decade. Then by the early nineties he uses comix in wildly experimental ways, mixing poetry, philosophy, fiction and non-fiction into a totally idiosyncratic vision. "Abe: Wrong for All the Right Reasons," finally allows Americans to see what they've been missing...
After an acclaimed graphic novel, "David Boring" in 2000, and an acclaimed movie, "Ghost World" in 2001, Daniel Clowes has finally put out another issue of the comicbook that both projects first appeared in. Working in his familiar milieu of slightly exaggerated suburban weirdness, "Eightball" #22 (Fantagraphics Books; 36pp.; $5.95) continues Clowes' development as one of the premier comic artists working today...