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...another MOCA, the Museum of Cartoon Art, and son of Mort Walker, the creator of Beetle Bailey and Hi and Lois. Carlin and Walker focused on 15 artists, from the early 20th century to today, who both devised their own visual-narrative languages and did so with distinctive graphic grace and power...
...reinvent themselves or die." Reinvent they did, and in the process reinvented the publishing business. As artist Raymond Pettibon puts in in the exhibition catalog: "Comics, the jilted suitor of the high airs art world, come back as the savior of the book industry in the form of the graphic novel...
...snafu doesn't happen again. In any event, the FCC isn't likely to do anything until a federal appeals court rules on the FCC's new indecency enforcement policy, fueled in part by Jackson's breast-baring show. That policy, which would impose fines for certain types of graphic profanity, is being challenged by the major networks, including Fox. More crowd shots like the one during the Eagles-Saints game probably won't help their case...
...Unsettling precisely because it is more atmospheric than graphic, more romantic than journalistic, Zoo examines the culture of zoophiles, people with an erotic attraction to animals. Seattle filmmaker Robinson Devor tells the true story of "Mr. Hands," a 45-year-old man who died shortly after being anonymously dropped at an emergency room in rural Washington in 2005. Police investigating the case followed clues to a nearby horse farm, where they found buckets of videos of the man and others having sex with Arabian stallions. Mr. Hands' cause of death was a perforated colon. Because bestiality wasn't illegal...
...going into the festival was Hounddog, in which 12-year-old Dakota Fanning plays a victim of sexual abuse who finds comfort in Elvis Presley music. Protested by religious groups and child advocates, the movie's much-debated rape scene turned out to be disturbing but not at all graphic. The camera fixes on a closeup of Fanning's face while the actions of a predatory neighbor boy are mostly implied. Despite protests, it appears the young star of Charlotte's Web and War of the Worlds was not harmed in the making of this movie. She also skied...