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...hotel room and hashes out a plan to assassinate Bush. (It's illegal to threaten the President in real life but not in fiction.) The title refers to a real incident in which an Iraqi family was gunned down by U.S. troops at a checkpoint. In the graphic novel In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman (Maus), the cartoonist ruminates on feeling equally terrorized by al-Qaeda and by his own government. And many authors, including Stephen King and Joyce Carol Oates, contributed to The Future Dictionary of America, which includes definitions like "cheney [chay?...
FEELING THE TAX HEAT: Europeans pay higher taxes than anyone in the world. A nation-by-nation guide to the lands of lofty levies Click for full-size graphic...
...Many young designers, including Lian Ng of San Francisco-based Publique Living, are molding and braiding wood. "There is a lot more use of wood in nontraditional applications," says Ng, a former graphic designer who creates lamps out of strips of maple or walnut veneer that are then woven into braided patterns. "With so many new products, I wanted something that is innovative yet familiar at the same time...
...tape contains many chilling scenes. When the chairman of the U.S. appointed Iraqi Governing Council, Izzedine Salam, then the country's highest Iraqi official, was assassinated last month in a car bomb Zarqawi quickly claimed credit. Now he shows the act, in graphic footage shot from a parked car: A convoy of white SUVs disappears down a Baghdad street, followed a moment later by a ball of flame and explosion so intense the windscreen through which the cameraman films cracks before your eyes...
...follows brother Simon, 40 years earlier, on an unsuccessful attempt at opening new sales territory. Using nearly as many silent, atmospheric panels as there are panels of people talking, Seth creates a quiet, elegiac atmosphere. Deliberately pitching itself against the garish, high-impact antics of other comics, Seth's graphic novel fits perfectly into the D&Q aesthetic...