Word: graphics
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...Comix: The best graphic novels and comix of the year...
...Another masterpiece released in teasing installments, the first half of David B.'s phantasmagorical memoir about growing up with an epileptic brother was brilliant enough to merit the top spot in TIME's top comix list of 2002. Finally partnered with the second half as a complete graphic novel, readers can at last enjoy the full scope of Epileptic's remarkable meditation on the nature of illness, the impact of history on the present, and the need to create fantasies and art. David B. seems to have total recall of what it was like growing up with a stigmatized brother...
...Comix: The best graphic novels and comix of the year...
...Created by two of France's top cartoonists, Lewis Trondheim and Joann Sfar (who also saw the release of his excellent solo graphic novel, The Rabbi's Cat, this year), the Dungeon series, which parodies such "sword and sandal" works as Conan or Lord of the Rings, has become a huge hit in its native country. The first two English-translated volumes reveal why. Filled with comedy - the stars are cowardly duck and vegetarian dragon - and adventure, these full color stories have an inventiveness rarely seen since, well, Conan or Lord of the Rings. 'Dungeons' and Ducks 3/19/2005
...with three terrific movies the kids can see without irreparable social damage and their keepers should enjoy. Chicken Little is a genuine Disney cartoon, with a storytelling sense and graphic precision worthy of the old animation masters. The title character (voiced by Zach Braff) has huge glasses, a studious mien, not the best posture. And, oh, is this chick adorable, whether trying to win a chaotic baseball game or shaking a tail feather in his patented chicken dance. At a pace as sprightly and assured as the great old Warner Bros. cartoons, the movie flirts with alien abductions, crop circles...