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...underground" comix. About 150 people from the New York comixcenti gathered last Thursday in a cavernous performance-space-cum-bar near the East River for the second in a series of shows known as "Comics Decode." Taking another step into the realm of comix as performance, "Comics Decode" has comicbook authors read aloud a selection of their work and then take questions about it. Through its early steps "Comics Decode" exposes the challenges of bridging private and public art forms...
...second time in a year a hit movie has been made from a non-superhero comicbook. Topping box-office grosses this past weekend, "From Hell," starring Johnny Depp and Heather Graham, directed by the Hughes brothers follows the summer's indy-hit, "Ghost World." But unlike "Ghost World," in which the comicbook's creator, Dan Clowes, extensively participated in the movie, the authors of "From Hell," Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, had little to do with the film. The difference shows...
...Wait..." can be found at better comicbook stores and through the publisher's website
...Sadly both these books will be hard to get. "Stripburger" #28 may be found at extremely intelligent comicbook stores, and perhaps through the Top Shelf Comics website. "Non" #5 has not been shipped to stores yet since all 2000 copies must be handmade. You can order it by emailing the publisher: jordan@beat.com...
...This has been a time when ordinary people - firemen, policemen, volunteers - have been justly hailed as heroes. They only make the comicbook superheroes seem more artificial. But wondering if this spells their doom is absurd. If anything, the likes of Captain America and Superman can become more relevant during nationalist crises. After the start of World War II audiences couldn't get enough of seeing Hitler and Tojo's minions take it in the mush courtesy of Cap and Supes. Depending on the length and intensity of the coming "War on Terrorism," don't be surprised to see our fantasy...