Word: cons
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...birthday. My sister lives in San Francisco, so we met there to celebrate. I was an art student in Los Angeles, and I flew up. We all decided to go to a Richard Avedon photography show in Berkeley. I was kind of a con artist--small jobs, like getting in movies free--and I guess I was ready for a big job. While they were all looking at the photographs, I went to the next gallery, where the museum was installing scrolls from the Ming dynasty. The room was unguarded, and I slid an 8-ft. piece of Plexiglas...
Americans who look at Aziz and his companions see only Arab solidarity, if not a terrorist cell, but the reality is far more complex and scary. Some of Aziz's friends are honest men looking for a better life, but some are con men (insurance grifters, identity thieves), and some are worse (drug dealers, terrorists). Some don't know what they are. With its international scope, its wandering point of view, its constant play of literary ambiguity and genre suspense, Harbor feels more contemporary than almost anything else out there. Sure, in an earlier era there might have been some...
Americans who look at Aziz and his companions see only Arab solidarity, if not a terrorist cell, but the reality is far more complex and scary. Some of Aziz's friends are honest men looking for a better life, but some are con men (insurance grifters, identity thieves), and some are worse (drug dealers, terrorists). Some don't know what they are. With its international scope, its wandering point of view, its constant play of literary ambiguity and genre suspense, Harbor feels more contemporary than almost anything else out there. Sure, in an earlier era there might have been some...
...former wunderkind, selling the best. The Seattle-based Fantagraphics reduced its table by half this year but have tentatively announced a bigger profit than ever with Dan Clowes' latest issue of "Eightball" #23, their top-seller. Georgia's Top Shelf had a remarkable eight new releases debuting at the con, including "Blankets" author Craig Thompson's book of travel sketches, "Carnet de Voyage," which sold out. Another debut sell-out was James Kochalka's "American Elf," collecting all four volumes of his diaries (see TIME.comix review...
...always, cons are also great sources of news and gossip. While wandering among the rubber-suited goths and picking through the Japanese toys your intrepid reporter unearthed a few interesting items of note: Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller appeared together to provide a glimpse of the up-coming "Sin City" movie starring Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke and Jessica Alba. The filmmakers stressed how closely they stuck to Miller's original comic series, resulting in some impressive super-high contrast black and white art direction and some wincingly cornball "hardboiled" dialogue - the hallmarks of Miller's late work. Monsters of manga...