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...dark cloud rolled over the indie comix horizon this past week when LPC Group, a retail bookstore distributor with many comix clients filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Topnotch publishers such as Drawn and Quarterly, Oni, and Highwater Books, who exist on very slim margins, found themselves suddenly unable to collect monies owed them by LPC. Top Shelf, the Marietta, Georgia-based publisher of "From Hell," the comicbook inspiration for the Johnny Depp movie of last year, was compelled to release an extraordinary electronic plea for $20,000 in direct purchases to save it from going under...
...development CELINE DION Songbird tops charts with first album in five years. It's inspiring how the world pulled together to survive a very trying half-decade JOHN NASH Beautiful Mind's house won't be condemned. And the imaginary bunker next to his "indoor basketball court" will still exist only in his head Losers BILL GATES Microsoftie April Fooled when two DJs convince him they're Jean Chr?tien. It's plausible the Canadian PM has nothing to do but crank call NE WIN Burmese ex-dictator's relatives charged with treason, and he's under Suu Kyi-style house...
...this is the secret that the latest intifada has revealed —that while the Israeli people have accepted the right of Palestine to exist, the Palestinians have not returned the favor. And in this latest campaign, in their fiercely self-righteous support for suicide bombing, the people of Nablus and Ramallah and Bethlehem have allowed their war for independence to drag them down into a swamp of naked, monstrous evil...
...take the English, a special breed at once almost totally irrelevant and yet utterly convinced of their own superiority to the rest of the world. This allows them to treat the rest of the world's inhabitants shabbily without ever once acknowledging that we exist...
...still invisible at 10:23? Why do all the people around me insist on going from A to B via P, T and X? Why do those infernal traffic lights, when not failing to impede traffic, flash the word relax? India sometimes seems to exist only to confound the expectations and to explode the tenses of a visitor from abroad. Flying into New Delhi recently, I was instantly lost inside a shouting commotion-traffic jams on the airport road at 2:15 on a Sunday morning!-and wondered how anything ever got done. INCONVENIENCE REGRETTED, read the age-old maxims...