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...With the squeamishness of the American media and the folly of embedded reporting, it is unlikely that people are going to find out for themselves through mainstream media outlets. Under current Federal Communications Commission guidelines the average American viewer would be just as likely to see the kind of graphic wartime violence shown in Fahrenheit 9/11 on network television as he’d be to see Janet Jackson’s nipple again...
...sensation of being transported to other places and cultures through the unique language of comix, look no further than Craig Thompson's "Carnet de Voyage" (Top Shelf; 224 pages; $15). Creator of the lauded and successful graphic novel "Blankets," Thompson's introductory insistence that "Carnet" is not his "next book," tries to disarm any critics, but he needn't have worried. Seemingly unedited, "Carnet" chronicles, in the form of an engrossing diary sketchbook, Thompson's European author tour, with a side trip to Morocco, during the spring of 2004. With all of its pages drawn from life, here at last...
...when many serious directors, especially in Europe, are making films with graphic sex, Wong remains a gentleman in matters of the groin. 2046 does have one vigorous bedroom encounter, with the nude Leung and Zhang Ziyi attractively entangled. But the erotic knockout punch is a kiss?sudden, brutal, passionate and 35 seconds long?between Leung and Gong Li. They go at each other like two drowning strangers giving each other CPR. Now that's sexy...
Last week, Benjamin Running, a 28-year-old New York graphic designer, posted a video of himself uncapping a ballpoint pen and jamming the barrel of the pen into the round keyhole of a $50 Kryptonite lock, rotating it until the lock popped free. The U-shaped bicycle locks are popular among bicycle owners, who have been told that these locks are the safest that money...
...Combining the instant gratification strong cartooning with the deep engagement of epic storytelling and the universal appeal of humor, Jeff Smith's "Bone" has becomes the best all-ages graphic novel yet published. While older readers will tune into such themes as the folly of blind fanaticism and the corrupting nature of power, the younger set will simply thrill to the adventure and delight at the huge cast of characters. Hardly a folly anymore, "Bone" now deserves to go from hipster cult item to mainstream literary success...