Word: flipped
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...Certainly the dream-boy was welcome in Slumberland, where King Morpheus and his princess daughter are most obliging, and where Nemo befriends the sassy Flip and a gibberish-speaking cannibal, the Imp. Often, though, the magic turned to menace, as when a tuba's tubing grows longer and more serpentine with every note puffed on it; or when Nemo, now in an urban setting, is pursued by apartment building on long metallic legs; or when he, Flip and Imp get lost in overgrown weeds - the eyebrow of Nemo's grandfather. In a strip that ran on New Year...
...McCay's ingenuity splashed from content to form and back again. Each huge page could be broken up into six horizontal strips or five vertical ones (showing an elephant getting bigger and scarier as it approaches). The panels might be in wavy shapes, when Nemo, Flip and Imp land in Befuddle Hall and their bodies elasticize into funhouse-mirror images. Or there'd be a large round central image, like the one for Thanksgiving 1905, in which a giant turkey - a kind of poultry Godzilla - uproots Nemo's house with its beak. Thanksgiving two years later expanded upon the dinner...
...Anyway, as Pettibon notes, "Comics are a book medium. Comic Books on the wall don't pass as comic books. You couldn't flip through one if you tried -- and that's a shame." That's exactly right: the way to appreciate comic book art is by reading them, in book form...
...lights go on When customers--here, the NFL--flip the switch, the electricity is delivered, as always, by a local utility. In buying RECs, however, they have helped offset carbon emissions by resupplying the grid with green power...
Here are some of the must-grab items on the discerning Branscombe beachcombers' shopping list. BMW R1200RT motorbike: $18,000 BMW automobile gearbox: $5,900 Timberland boots: $240 Empty oak wine barrel: $200 Nike running shoes: $120 L'Oréal moisturizer for men: $20 Flip-flops...