Word: graphics
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...Spiderman movies being among the rare exceptions. Hellboy, is another dark horse in this inked-up Hollywood universe, a steam-train of an adaptation that stays vividly faithful to the comic book engine underneath, even as it accommodates those whose only experience with a “graphic novel” film is Dangerous Liaisons...
This nonsensical pastiche—especially in its frenzied but unfocused graphic energy—feels very contemporary, very post-modern. It’s tempting, then, to compliment Consalvos’ work by calling it years ahead of its time (Consalvos worked between 1910 and 1940). But one of the major traps of dealing with “outsider” art is that in welcoming it into the mainstream (no matter how well-meaning our efforts to legitimize it may be) there is a real danger that we will lose sight of the qualities that make it special...
...appellate court will look at the transcript to determine where there are any legal infirmities [in the case] as opposed to factual infirmities,” he said, citing as an example a situation where a judge admits graphic autopsy photographs as evidence that are likely to inflame a jury...
...panel of high-profile African-American academics along with a reverend, a film director and the founder of an educational media company discussed the disenfranchisement of black Americans and other political issues parodied in the graphic novel, Birth of a Nation: A Comic Nation, last night at the Institute of Politics...
Birth of a Nation, which takes its name from a 1915 D.W. Griffith film about the Ku Klux Klan, is a graphic novel—a sort of long-form comic book—about a black community in St. Louis that secedes from the United States to form “Black Land” after too many of its citizens are denied the right to vote...