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...seeks to jumpstart his own career as a graphic novelist, Stevens seems well-positioned to portray this phase of a young person’s life, imbuing it with an air of reality and truth. Although Stevens says that “Guilty?? is not an autobiographical work, it feels as though the events that unfold in this book could have happened, even if they never actually did. While this makes for a story where less happens, it gives the work a subtle, textural quality of wordless image and emotion that slows the narrative, forcing the reader...
...novels, by nature, are a visual medium. As a result, a significant portion of the emphasis normally placed on a novel’s writing is shifted over to the artwork. In this case, this shift is a very fortunate move as, sadly, the writing in “Guilty?? can sometimes verge on the mediocre and there are also a number of misspellings in the dialogue. However, Stevens’ drawings are often so realistic and subtly attention-grabbing as to render the dialogue almost entirely irrelevant...
Fittingly, Stevens cites the medium of film and particularly the directors of the French New Wave as a major influence on his work. While I’m reluctant to juxtapose “Guilty?? with “The 400 Blows,” Stevens work definitely has an element of that same detachment and disaffection among its characters that infuses the oeuvres of Truffaut and his contemporaries. Further, Stevens’ visual style is reminiscent of cinematic montage, which wordlessly hints at a complexity of character and adds depth and texture to an otherwise straightforward story...
...have been listening to David [A.] Wax [’05]—he has a great song called “Not Guilty??—because he’s my roommate. I listened to Another Side of Bob Dylan yesterday while I was trying to write a paper. The Basement Tapes and Planet Waves. A little bit of Jamiroquai, especially “Canned Heat,” the song from Napoleon Dynamite. And a bluegrass group from North Carolina called Sons of Ralph on their album Grab a Root and Growl...
...pending felony case, Pomey and Gomes were denied degrees in 2002. After an unsuccessful effort by Pomey to suppress a confession she made to police and to be tried separately from Gomes, both changed their pleas to “guilty?? at a September 2002 hearing. Prosecutors sought jail time, while lawyers for the defendants argued that the judge should order pre-trial probation, a step which would have prevented the guilty plea from being entered on their permanent record...