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BEFORE THE 1972 OLYMPICS, YOU APPLIED TO DENTAL SCHOOL. DID YOU EVER THINK OF GOING BACK TO CLEAN TEETH? I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental school in the spring of 1972. I was planning to go, but after the Olympics there were other opportunities. I did some television and speaking engagements, and things just went from there...
...refer to that long weekend as "the dreaded 48 hours." It's like going to the dentist to have several teeth pulled. You're in agony, and you know you're going to feel better afterward, but the thought of doing it is just terrible. By the end, Moss had created Eliza Doolittle for me, and I had to some degree found...
...hear it. All of these I gazed at with the avidity of a magpie. At times, the palms of my hands actually itched with temptation and desire." He encounters a woman with bound feet, a waiter whose tongue was cut out by the Japanese as a punishment, a dentist whose recollections of wartime internment are so gruesome that Booth endures the drill without novocaine or complaint. He learns how to eat boiled beetles, chew sugarcane stalks, polish ancestral bones on "hungry ghosts" day, and speak rudimentary Cantonese. He spends long afternoons wandering around what was then a quiet city...
Even those who are ready to open their wallets are doing so carefully. Michelle Nance, 34, starts work this week in San Francisco as a nurse. She's planning a long-delayed visit to the dentist and the purchase of a new set of tires. But with $40,000 in student loans, "I'm not going to go out and buy a flat-screen TV," she says. Wal-Mart and Target both reported declines in sales growth in June. A drop in consumer spending, which accounts for two-thirds of the economy, could slow the recovery. "We're watching that...
Oliveros' goal, he says, is to publish "the best cartooning work in the world." To achieve that, he keeps things small. Working out of a messy but colorfully decorated former dentist's office, he employs two full-time staff members and publishes only about 20 books a year. His pickiness and critical success have earned D&Q a monster reputation among the comixcenti and--with increased exposure in regular bookstores--the general public. In 2003, Oliveros says, D&Q racked up $715,000 in revenue, five times as much...