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LIFESTYLE: A graphic novel imagines black secession; the mango marries the nectarine...
...Graphic novels used to be viewed as comic books--only bigger and more pretentious. Now that sales are booming, the medium is being embraced by artists as a hip way to tell challenging stories. The just released Birth of a Nation (Crown; 140 pages) by Aaron McGruder, creator of the controversial comic strip The Boondocks, and Reginald Hudlin, director of the 1990 movie House Party, began as a movie script that used race as the centerpiece of a political satire. "By the time we realized how difficult that would be to sell in Hollywood, we had already fallen in love...
...book is affably illustrated by graphic novelist Kyle Baker. The comixcenti may sniff at its simple layout, but neophytes will appreciate its readability. And though it lacks the racial zings of, say, Dave Chappelle, it manages to land some clever social jabs. Hollywood is unlikely to have told this tale with more punch--if it told...
...spite of its critical nature, the speech was met with strong applause. Highlights of the awards included Derek Kirk Kim's Talent Deserving Wider Recognition (see TIME.comix review), Vertical Inc.'s "Buddha" for Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material (see TIME.comix review), and Craig Thompson's "Blankets" for Best Graphic Album - New (see TIME.comix review). The jaw-dropping lowlight had to have been the award for Best Graphic Album - Reprint, which industry voters passed over Jim Woodring, Chester Brown, Chris Ware and Gilbert Hernandez to give to an utterly outclassed collection of "Batman Adventures" stories...
...near future. They have also begun soliciting gay comics creators for a series of shonen-ai books - the gay-themed soapers that traditionally appeal to girls. Pantheon will be publishing Dan Clowes' "Eightball" #22, the "Leopold and Loeb" issue, with all new material, fleshing it out to a full graphic novel. The artist known only as Rebecca, author of the porno series "Housewives at Play," is actually Fantagraphics' highest-paid author, with sales at least equaling that of FG's top-selling "legit" cartoonist Dan Clowes. Who knew? Though some hard-core comixcenti object to its crassness, I find...