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...cartoonist, has been snooping around the borderlands between these disciplines for several years. His first important series, "Palestine," (1995) about life in the holy land during the first Intefada, gave us something radically new: a comic book that was immediately relevant to the real world. His next project, the graphic novel "Safe Area Gorazde," (2000) gave vision to otherwise unrecorded atrocities of the Balkans war of the early nineties. Now at last Sacco has come out with a new hardcover book, "The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo" (Drawn & Quarterly; 108 pp.; $24.95), his most refined work of reportorial...
...what was their issue? Equal opportunity? The right to choose? Wage discrimination? No, these women were out to tackle a much more menacing threat: the reintroduction of silicone breast implants. Armed with graphic pictures of women whose breasts implants had ruptured or been removed, the protesters demanded that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) delay consideration of the issue before further research was conducted...
...monk. Rejecting old age, disease and death, the man, Siddhartha, chooses the life of the monk and goes on to enlightenment in one of the key moments in the story of the Buddha. Thoughtful comix readers can relate to such limited choices. Even among the more ambitious works of graphic literature there have been few explorations of spirituality or attempts at creating a distinct morality. But now a radical, epic, ambitious, brilliant option presents itself: Osamu Tezuka's "Buddha" (Vertical...
...Filled with beauty, cruelty, drama, comedy, romance and violence, Osamu Tezuka's "Buddha" encompasses the entirety of life in a masterpiece of graphic literature. Deeply moral but never moralistic, "Buddha" merges the delight of cartooning with the epic seriousness of one of the great religions, becoming a thing wholly unto itself. Even if you can't achieve satori with "Buddha," you can open up another world...
...when the government reduced the drinking age. Since 1999, New Zealand has seen a reduction in the production of fake IDs and in young drinkers wandering the streets at night. The government worked to encourage newly-legal drinkers to assume greater responsibilities. National TV stations broadcast a series of graphic advertisements about the dangers of drunk driving that helped to promote responsible alcohol consumption...