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Last year set a benchmark for women cartoonists with nearly a half dozen major works published, including three in my top ten. This year looks to continue this important upswing with the appearance of Aline Kominsky Crumb's Need More Love: A Graphic Memoir (MQ Publications; 383 pages; $30). Another in the long line of interesting female artists who get overshadowed and even vilified as a result of being married to a beloved male artist (in this case, Robert Crumb), Kominsky Crumb gets the solo attention she deserves with this new book. Need More Love delivers some of the most...
...patient look at a graphic on her clipboard as he answered. The graphic was a 10cm line with numbers like a ruler, as well as upside down smiley faces depicting progressively greater discomfort - the VAS (visual analog pain scale). Patients are supposed to tell our nurses how much pain they feel by pointing to a spot along the line...
...past few months, Gittoes' drawings have portrayed a less particular and more generalized kind of horror. His Exhausted Still Walking, 2006, gives the impression of war as a spiraling, replicating beast. Perhaps not coincidentally, Gittoes has been meeting with Korean animators to help turn his diaries into a graphic novel and feature film. The artist sees this as all part of a larger multimedia project, to be called Night Vision. It was while traveling with a U.N. peacekeeping force in Somalia 14 years ago that Gittoes tried on his first pair of night-vision goggles-complaining in his diary that...
...Letters” easily outdoes its counterpart in the Iwo Jima duology through crisper cinematography and more heartfelt acting. Like many war films, it embraces the vivid atrocities of war, but unlike other members in the genre, “Letters from Iwo Jima” juxtaposes that graphic violence with honesty from both sides of the conflict, Japanese and American alike...
...rritu with “Babel” and Alfonso Cuarón with “Children of Men”). Of the three films, “Pan’s Labyrinth” simultaneously has the most childlike thematic material and the most graphic violence. Minimalist-influenced music by composer Javier Navarrete, which builds on the theme of a mother’s lullaby, plays during intense visual depictions of gory births and deaths. In interviews, del Toro has attributed some of this familiarity with violence to his upbringing in the still-violent culture of Mexico...