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...your local comicbook store. A thick, book-length anthology, "Legal Action," (256 pp; $14.95) has been published by the Dirty Danny Legal Defense Fund towards which, short of printing costs, all proceeds are going. The peculiarity of "Dirty" Danny Hellman's situation motivated enough comix heavyweights, like Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Spain, and Kim Deitch, to donate their work and turn "Legal Action" into one of the most anticipated comix of the year...
...many first generation underground cartoonists. Most notably, Spiegelman provides a back cover depiction of the Temple of Cartoon Gods, with Rall's effigy placed in the bathroom. It's his first public statement on the case and, by implication, Rall's article. The other really big name, Robert Crumb, has handed over what look like a couple pages from his sketchbooks, depicting a pair of medieval "Crumb Girls" in a catfight. Other conrtibutors include Julie Doucet, Jay Lynch, Kaz, Gary Panter, Robert Williams, Mary Fleener, Sam Henderson, James Kochalka and at least two dozen others...
Ghost World originated in Eightball, a serial comic book by Daniel Clowes, whose anatomizing of anomie--Pussey!, David Boring--has made him the R. Crumb of Generation Y. (The Ghost World title is graffiti Clowes saw on a wall in Chicago.) Enid and Rebecca first appeared in 1993. "The characters came to me spontaneously, fully formed, when I drew them in my sketchbook," says Clowes in his Oakland, Calif., home. "They felt like two parts of my personality. Enid is the id, dissatisfied with everything, not sure where she belongs; Rebecca is more pragmatic, trying to make the best...
...would have stayed on the page if not for Terry Zwigoff, best known for Crumb, his 1994 documentary on the cartoonist. Eager to direct a fiction feature, the San Francisco filmmaker got in touch with Clowes to work on Ghost World. At first, they tried a close adaptation of the comic. "It wasn't working," Clowes says. "We were sustaining the corpse of something. So we took little tangents and enlarged them, and took things that were large in the comic and shrank them down to tangents. It was changed at the atomic level." Clowes remained an active force during...
Zwigoff's major contribution to the script was the fleshing out of Seymour, a minor character in the comic. Zwigoff took aspects from Robert Crumb and his brother Charles, but mainly, the director says, "he was based on me." It was easier to write the character than to get the studio bosses' approval of the actor to play him. "I fought and fought to have Steve Buscemi. We could have made this film four years earlier if I'd agreed to cast the people they were giving me, like Freddie Prinze Jr.--people who were absurd for the part. Also...