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...lovers in their twenties living and working in New York City. The central character, Sherman, slaves away at a Manhattan bookstore while struggling with aspirations of being a writer and coping with his self-destructive girlfriend. Meanwhile his best-friend, Ed, employed as the assistant to an old-time comicbook "legend," begins a crusade to earn his craggy boss compensation for the lucrative characters he signed away fifty years...
...Office Poison" and "Opposable Thumbs" can both be found at better comicbook stores. "BOP" can also be purchased through the publishers website. "Opposable Thumbs" can also be purchased this...
...tiny cluster of fanatics, "Ghost World," has become the most anticipated movie of the summer. Sweat beads pop from their brows. They chew their lower lip and stare into space because fans of Dan Clowes, who created "Ghost World" as a series in his comicbook "Eightball," and who co-wrote the screenplay, are pessimists by definition. It really could be awful. Well folks, you can now unclench your nervous fists about any "Hollywood bastardization" and get ready to enjoy a nearly perfect cinematic adaptation of Clowes' cranky spirit...
...Ghost World," the movie, opens today in New York, L.A. and Seattle, and in wider release on August 3. "Ghost World," the comix series, has been collected into paperback and should be available at even second-rate comicbook stores, and regular bookstores...
...Sadly, both "Perfect Example" and "King-Cat Collection" will be hard to find in comicbook stores or otherwise. But you can order "Perfect Example" from the publisher, Highwater Books, and Amazon.com. For individual issues of "King-Cat Comics and Stories" write to John Porcellino...