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...overall economy but gave many people an uneasy feeling about the Roaring Eighties. The spectacular failures of such '80s heroes as Michael Milken and Donald Trump have discredited the era's role models as well. ''The 1980s showed how ugly this country could be, like racism did,'' says April Gilbert, a Stanford M.B.A. and shipping executive who hopes to join a nonprofit company soon. ''In the 1980s I was fed up and almost angry with the behavior of people in this country,'' says Stuart Winby, manager of Hewlett-Packard's Factory-of-the- Future program. ''Those kinds of values...
After long absences, two of the biggest-name "alternative" titles happen to have both returned this past month. Peter Bagge's "Hate" ran for 30 issues from 1990 to 1998. "Love and Rockets," by Los Bros. Hernandez (Gilbert, Jaime and sometimes Mario), ran for 50 issues from 1981 to 1996. Now "Hate" has returned in the first of a series of annual editions, while "Love and Rockets" begins a new quarterly schedule...
...Gilbert, on the other hand, has begun an entirely new story with no characters from before. "Julio's Day," promises Gilbert, will follow Julio from cradle to grave as he lives his life for the 100 years of the twentieth century. In the first issue Julio arrives in a small, presumably Mexican village, only to be tossed in a ditch by his uncle...
...bonus, Mario Hernandez, the oldest brother and only occasional contributor, appears as the writer of a new series called "Me for the Unknown." Mario specializes in creating semi-sci-fi tales of corporate conspiracy and the individual's struggle against them. Gilbert's straightforward drawings make the story easier to follow than Mario's ambitious style...
...will be available Monday through Thursday from 8 to 10 p.m. in the Currier House Gilbert Seminar Room and by calling...