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...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...
After witnessing the murder of her family and villagers by Salvadoran soldiers in 1981, Rufina Amaya, sole survivor of the El Mozote massacre, might have withered. Instead, in defiance of the governments of the U.S. and El Salvador, which denied the atrocity, she supplied graphic details to anyone who would listen. Her accounts prompted front-page stories in the Washington Post and the New York Times and ramped up congressional debate over U.S. aid to El Salvador. In the end, the U.S. continued to support its ally, which in the '90s passed a law exempting the army from prosecution...
...asks each of the film’s characters for help. Tension escalates to a fever pitch as Sara questions the identity of her father while the school trip looms nearer. The past is a context, rather than a subject, for the film: Zbanic does not resort to graphic violence in order to hint at the atrocities of the war. We see it reflected in the women’s lined faces and the men’s gruffness. We hear about it in songs sung in the school bus and learnt at home—the English title...
...Field’s oeuvre—emotional women on the brink of considerable change. There is no detail omitted in this journal of a woman’s death, and we must watch the cast deal with home nurses, morphine, chemotherapy, and excessive vomiting. The horrifying and graphic scenes of illness are juxtaposed with comedy that sometimes works to raise the mood—but usually comes off as contrived. Each of the four adult children copes with the mother’s death differently, and the movie focuses on their interactions with each other as they make...