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...movie - including Pekar and his wife Joyce Brabner - sometimes putting the actors and their real-life counterparts in the same frame. Giamatti gives a hilariously simian characterization of Pekar as he struggles to find meaning in his life. Essentially a story about the redemptive power of art, Pekar's comix lead him to his wife and get him through a bout with cancer. The real Harvey Pekar, now 63 and sounding weary but not at all cranky, spoke with TIME.comix by phone from Los Angeles...
...could maybe come up with an artist. And I was paying attention to what the underground cartoonists were doing in the sixties and the early seventies. Crumb moved out of Cleveland in 1966 but he kept in touch. I followed his work and continued to buy underground comix. And I just saw more and more possibility in comics...
...handed out with the skew towards the mainstream that the Eisner's are known for. A complete list of winners can be found here. However, there were two highlights of the presentations. The "Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition" award went, most appropriately, to Jason Shiga. Like one his playful comix come to life (see TIME.comix review), Shiga sent an imposter (actually F.C. Brandt) to receive the award. Wearing a black wig and dark glasses the clearly false Shiga then regaled the audience with an absurd shaggy dog story about being born on a desert island as the product...
...being 86 years old. Neil Gaiman (best known for his "Sandman" series) opened the ceremony with a keynote speech. His "State of the Comics Nation," as he called it, was generally sunny. "I don't think we're doing that badly at all," he said. He felt that comix had graduated from a public image of forgettable trash to being "just another medium," like film and literature. Eisner echoed this when he got on stage, declaring, "We're almost at the top of the mountain...
...Though the Comic-Con International may be inaccurately named, being only 50% comics-related and not very international, it shouldn't be missed by comix enthusiasts. Its giant tent has enough going on under it for anybody to find something of interest. The very thing that aesthetes complain about, the wild mash-up of comic books with other products, becomes one of the strengths of the show. Comix become instantly re-contextualized as the pop-culture medium they always were. It's nice to climb down from the upper atmosphere once in a while and wallow around...