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Pity the 'tween-agers. Abandoned by the mainstream comicbook industry, American boys under 12 and every kind of girl have been left with just Archie and Disney. They must lie awake at night thinking about that far away paradise where children get their own targeted comicbooks. Luckily a pair of smart, fun books from this land, called Japan, have been brought over here. "Marmalade Boy" (Tokyopop; 200pp; $9.99) swoops down and entertains all those sad little 'tween girls while "Astro Boy" (Dark Horse Comics; 224pp; $9.95) has arrived to delight the boys...
...involves a queen whose robot spaceship pilots shoot down any rocket headed for the moon. Filled with the mischievous mayhem that boys love, but told with wit and imagination, the stories always have an underlying theme of friendship and goodwill. Drawn with a whimsical simplicity based heavily on the Disney cartoons, Tezuka has a loopy sense of humor. He will sometimes insert nonsense characters into a scene just for fun. One Brechtian moment has Mr. Mustachio kicking a doodle off the page, yelling, "Hey! This is an important panel in the strip...
...Disney has already made a similar move. And once again the private sector, whether it's out of fear of regulation or simply to woo and retain employees, has a way of staying ahead of new political wills and new laws that generally just make things more complicated for employers and employees alike...
...some reason, it’s usually Dad) beams like a ray of Disney sunshine, unaware that the myth will slowly corrode his child’s mind. She so young and so pumped on being the best before she even knows what the best is or why. Wanting to please and doing so now like a well-trained parrot, but probably unable to keep up the farce once more is expected of her than memorized phrases and bright-eyed smiles...
...sales to foreign distributors, which, according to Harvey, should limit his company's investment to less than $30 million. The job cutbacks, he points out, have simply brought Miramax back to October 2001 levels. "We just didn't need to have all that staff around," he says. According to Disney CEO Michael Eisner, the Weinsteins still enjoy strong support from their parent company. "They may get under people's skin, including ours sometimes," says Eisner, "but the pain is worth it." Moreover, Talk Miramax Books, which is still run by former Talk magazine editor Tina Brown, has been successful...