Word: graphically
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...However, HBO's Oliva said his confidence in Capadocia was bolstered by the reaction of his 70-year-old mother to the series. At first, Oliva was worried the graphic violence, swearing and lesbian sex scenes would earn him a scolding. "I thought she might be angry with me," Oliva said. "Instead she told me, 'That is the reality in our country.' And she was dying to watch the second episode...
...Sudan's turbulent political history. In 1969, his father had been a minister in President Jafar Nimeiry's government, but was later placed under house arrest. The family fled Sudan in 1974, and Yahia was educated in Britain and France before moving to Colorado, where he worked as a graphic designer. Meanwhile, back home, things were getting worse...
...horse's muzzle, and from there, up to the animal's penetrating eyes, which stare at the viewer in terrified accusation, as if to say, "Look at what you've done." Bloodspecked bodies crumpled at the bottom of each painting now form a single visual line and provide a graphic reminder that the French massacre of "innocent" militiamen occurred only after the Spanish had slaughtered their share of French soldiers. "Look at their faces: Goya doesn't present them as innocent," says Mena. "Violence begets violence...
...cultural barometer, then anyone who wants to call himself “cultured” had better start reading some comics.A few months ago, right alongside its lists of the best music and film of 2007, the magazine published a list of its “Top 10 Graphic Novels” of the year for the first time. It was filled with everything from individual issues of “Superman” comic books to little-known, underground comics.But chances are, if you’re the average American, you don’t even know what...
...started his first graphic novel about Cambodia, Impasse et Rouge - chronicling the years just before the Khmer Rouge - in 1987, five years before Art Spiegelman's Maus would win a Pulitzer for its famous depiction of the Holocaust and demonstrate that gravitas and the graphic arts were not mutually exclusive. Impasse et Rouge wasn't published for almost another 12 years. Although the following two titles about Cambodia, L'Eau et la Terre (2005) and Lendemains de cendres (2007), were picked up in fairly quick succession by the major French comic publisher Delcourt, Séra has still...