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...gateway drug," Spiegelman said by phone from his Manhattan studio. "[Comics] served to help our kids learn to love books as things as well as the ideas they contain." But after years of arguing that comics weren't just for kids, Spiegelman, author of the graphic novel "Maus," found himself in a peculiar position when trying to create "Little Lit." "[I]t was like finally some people were going, 'Yes! Comics are for adults,' and here we were kind of stupidly parading out into the battle zone going, 'Yeah but, wait, wait, comics aren't just for adults anymore...
...most refreshing films of the year, American Splendor skillfully manipulates the medium of film in the same way last year’s Adaptation toyed with the basic structures of the screenplay. Splendor’s foundation is the life of chronically cantankerous graphic artist Harvey Pekar, whose series of autobiographic comic books in the ’70s and ’80s captured the innate complexities of a simple existence and ultimately revolutionized the comic book industry. These books had a number of different illustrators, and the varying styles are translated by directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert...
Eight years later, Bezreh is still doing crazy things. A former English concentrator turned graphic artist, she has taken her own brand of performance art all over the world. Last March, at the International Festival of Women in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Bezreh transformed herself into a saran-wrapped mummy that chanted, “I’ve got something that you’ll really like.” She then gave birth to a baby doll with scissors and saran wrap sleight of hand...
...most refreshing films of the year, American Splendor skillfully manipulates the medium of film in the same way last year’s Adaptation toyed with the basic structures of the screenplay. Splendor’s foundation is the life of chronically cantankerous graphic artist Harvey Pekar, whose series of autobiographic comic books in the ’70s and ’80s captured the innate complexities of a simple existence and ultimately revolutionized the comic book industry. These books had a number of different illustrators, and the varying styles are translated by directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert...
...wasn't easy for Bill Thielker to believe it when his doctor diagnosed him as depressed--mostly because he wasn't terribly sad. The 54-year-old landscape photographer and graphic designer felt lousy, all right--empty, unmotivated, detached from the people around him. But that was more or less how he'd always felt. "It was normal for me," he says. "I didn't realize anything was wrong. I just assumed life sucks and that's that...