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...coffee-table too, because this one-foot-square, heavy paper stock book needs surface area and support.) Taking a"McSweeny's"-style approach that puts it on bookshelves rather than into cardboard collector's boxes, this first issue clearly has the intention of broadening the audience for taking comix seriously...
Noticeably, Marvel's best contribution to the 9/11 projects, "A Moment of Silence," ($3.50; 40pp.) contains no superheroes. It consists of four short stories without words that are among the most moving of all the benefit comix. Three of the four are true-life stories, like the one about Tony Savas, a building inspector stationed at the World Trade Center who receives a touching tribute as he marches, blueprints in hand, into the doomed building. Mark Bagley's "house style" artwork, normally associated with superheroes, gives the piece a subtle rhetorical flourish...
...last two weeks have seen the release of five different projects, which along with two even earlier ones, total over seven hundred fifty pages of 9/11-centered comix. This is made all the more remarkable by the fact that all of the art, along with much of the production (printing, paper, distribution, etc.), has been donated, with proceeds going to various charities. That everyone in the industry should have the same generosity of spirit and coin makes this comicdom's finest moment. In order to better examine all of these projects TIME.comix will divide its coverage over two weeks, vaguely divided...
...opens with two big block panels drawn by Tony Millionaire, featuring Harvey Pekar, the grumpy old man of indie comix. When he hears the news on the radio he says, "I bet it don't get any easier here on," a classic of Pekar's truth in understatement. Nearly all of the sixty-plus stories use a similar autobiographical approach, typically recounting the day's events. The most harrowing of these, written by Evan Forsch and drawn by Robert Ullman, tells of Forsch's escape from the 89th floor of the WTC's north tower. With other contributions from Puerto...
...Both "9-11: Emergency Relief" and "World War 3 Illustrated" #32 represent the best aspects of the independent comix press. Not only have many of the field's top creators contributed works, but their grassroots collectivizing towards a greater good are as much in opposition to the hateful events of that morning as any military action. They give a much-needed way to connect to the enormity of this tragedy while offering a way to help in its healing...