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...MAAD, maad.sg. Held on the first weekend of every month at the Red Dot Design Museum on Maxwell Road, this is not your usual rummage sale of bad macramé and lopsided pottery. Instead, MAAD is an outdoor bazaar that stresses cutting-edge work from budding fashion designers, graphic artists, painters, jewelry makers, housewares makers and product designers. Before they go on sale, the items need the tick of approval from a panel of curators that currently includes Edward Tonino, a senior designer with electronics manufacturer Philips, and Ken Koo, president of the Asian chapter of the Red Dot Design...
...graphic about breast cancer around the world...
...This column started about five years ago when comix and graphic novels were just barely beginning to get serious attention from the mainstream press. My goal was to introduce the more general readership of Time's website to the unique, mostly unheralded possibilities of storytelling that I knew the comix form had to offer. My philosophy for the column has always been to offer supportive reviews of books that I found interesting. There seemed little point in telling a comix-averse audience not to read comix. The perfect TIME.comix review would be a brief guide to how to appreciate...
...more chapter-length comic books than there are now (manga excepted). Gradually the focus in the "alternative" comix industry has become more on completed long-form books that can be sold through regular booksellers, beyond just comic specialty shops. This reflects the major shift in public interest towards graphic novels that TIME.comix has born witness to, and I'd like to think, in some small way contributed...
...During the writing of TIME.comix, graphic novels have gone from a publishing backwater to being the only book category displaying any growth at all. Last year saw $330 million in sales, up 12% from 2005, according ICV2, a website dedicated to covering the market. Translated Japanese manga, particularly the ones aimed at girls, accounts for much of this growth, a phenomenon that I am pleased to say I wrote about for Time far before any other major media outlet. Now virtually all the major print and online media that cover books have at least some sort of graphic novel coverage...