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...part of its Occupational Arts department, my high school boasted a full scale graphics shop complete with darkroom, light tables and several offset presses. Since everyone in the school had to take three vocational education classes, it was a rare Garfield High student who didn't graduate with boxes of business cards and badly screened tri-color T-shirts. It was here that the newspaper was produced, leaving us at the mercy of machines that had been purchased sometime around the Eisenhower administration. The first...
Johnston's message is clear. Whether that message is exactly "political" in nature is debatable. However, "For Better or For Worse" has never aspired to be just another entertaining comic strip like "Garfield" or "Zippy". It has always tried to teach some sort of lesson, so this most recent series fits well with the comic strip's mission. Johnston has not suddenly changed the tone of her strip, she has just offended a new audience...
Haden, who fantasizes as readily about hanging out with John Garfield as he does about getting down with Charlie Parker, says, "I wanted to pass along the feeling of standing in Philip Marlowe's office looking out at the neon lights blinking off and on in the night." Haunted Heart's 12 pieces range from new compositions by Haden and pianist Alan Broadbent to reworkings of standards by Parker, Bud Powell and Glenn Miller to -- most surprisingly and, perhaps, most inventively -- three period vocals by Billie Holiday, Jeri Southern and Jo Stafford, copied straight from Haden's 5,000-volume...
...James Garfield...
...Trudeau is an artist who is remarkably sensitive to the pulse of our society. This is why Doonesbury will often be found on the nation's editorial pages as opposed to the comics pages, a sign that Doonesbury's work is lightyears ahead of the inanities of Jim Davis' Garfield...