Word: doneness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly all done by this sort of Mafia, all these guys with Italian and Irish names who had the whole thing sewn up. It was actually seeing a comic book drawn by Barry Smith, who was about my age, and English. He'd done it, so I clearly remember thinking: it can be done. And once it became a possiblity that was all I pursued. I was probably about 19 or 20. That...
...thinking about this. We didn't ever set out to say, all right, you know what we're going to do? We're going to do the best f------g comic book that's ever been done. This is going to be the Citizen Kane of comics. We are going to be famous for this for the next two and a half decades. If we'd done that we would have come up with nothing...
...primitive! The actual color separations were done at home by ladies working in their kitchens! Really basic. It had been unchanged since the 1930s. And of course, we didn't even have fax machines. So Alan would have to physically send the script to me. When I started to run low on script, to keep me busy, he put the scripts in a taxi and paid $100 to get the script to me. Nowadays, script's done, send. Art's done, send...
...this conflict. Laurent Nkunda was a war-time commander in Paul Kagame's 1994 Rwanda Patriotic Front, the rebel force that routed the then-Rwandan government even as the genocide was taking place. While Kagame categorically denies that he is supporting Nkunda and his militia, the Rwandan president has done so in the past and most observers in the region believe that he still is . Similarly, Congo's president Joseph Kabila's army is widely believed to be working closely with Hutu militia, that is when they are not terrorizing their own citizens. (See pictures of Congo's child soldiers...
...television screens once again beam images of refugees jamming the red dirt roads of central Africa, and radios broadcast the crackle of gunfire from forested hills, it's clear that something needs to be done. Troops may provide succour for now; but in the long run serious pressure needs to be brought to bear on political leaders until the fighting stops...