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...sheds new light on the history of early Christianity, and then the fishapod, a pre-historic creature thought to bridge the evolution from fin to feet. And this week sees the re-appearance of another, less world-historical but still woefully forgotten "missing link" in the evolution of the graphic novel medium. Kings in Disguise (W.W. Norton; 184 pages; $17), by James Vance and Dan Burr, will finally be reprinted in an affordable, attractive and widely-available paperback edition. A remarkably sensitive and engrossing book from the late 1980s, when the medium got its first - short-lived - shot at mainstream...
...medium's lost treasures, James Vance and Dan Burr's Kings in Disguise is a graphic novel in the truest sense, creating a fictional world with strong characters, Great Themes and literary ambition. It deserves to be read by anyone with an interest in both history and great comix storytelling...
Hyman, with graphic design help from his roomate Shaan K. Hathiramani ’08, launched the program on Dec. 20 at palindromic.net/chat....
...your hook-up mixtape? “Incense and Candles” fits the bill nicely. Prince and a female accompanist exchange sexy bon mots over a simple keyboard melody as the track builds to its climax: Prince’s spoken word interlude, in which he describes in graphic detail how he plans to satisfy his partner’s…cravings. The song is an erotic on tour de force on par with “Darling Nikki,” and if you ever need to liberate a lady friend from the tyranny of her undergarments...
...that offer porn studies find themselves caught between their desire for cutting-edge scholarship and their reluctance to stir up controversy. "I wish I had more faculty doing this kind of exciting work," says David Penniman, a dean at Buffalo who oversees Halavais' cyberporn course. Penniman acknowledges that the graphic images used in the class may upset some people, but, he adds, "it's tricky for a dean or university president to try to dictate what should or shouldn't be in the syllabus." It's especially tricky at state schools where legislators help determine school funding. After Clarkson...