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...Indiana primary earlier this year, Helen Hernandez planned to use her lunch break from her janitorial job to vote. Although she arrived without any identification, Hernandez expected a routine process at the polling place since she had voted regularly for nearly 50 years. The poll workers who greeted Hernandez, however, were unfamiliar with Indiana election law and failed not only to allow her to cast a vote without identification but also to provide her with a provisional ballot. Pressed by time and uncertain of her rights, Hernandez simply left...
...Edition of Foreign Material (see TIME.comix review), and Craig Thompson's "Blankets" for Best Graphic Album - New (see TIME.comix review). The jaw-dropping lowlight had to have been the award for Best Graphic Album - Reprint, which industry voters passed over Jim Woodring, Chester Brown, Chris Ware and Gilbert Hernandez to give to an utterly outclassed collection of "Batman Adventures" stories...
...autobiographical "Toronto, Ontario. Canada" details his obsessive onanism and general poor living with horrifying candor. The breakout "unknown" artist is David Heatley, who provides poignant and funny vignettes of his father in "Portrait of My Dad." Other contributor are a who's who of indy comix: Lynda Barry, the Hernandez Brothers, Adrian Tomine, Julie Doucet, Dan Clowes, Art Spiegelman...
...experience of writing the thesis has also led Hernandez to change her postgraduate plans. After working at Goldman Sachs last summer, she had planned to take a two-year analyst position there and use her earnings to help out at home. Now she is planning a year-long stay in France—where she will study that nation’s immigration patterns on a Rockefeller fellowship—after which she will pursue a master’s degree in public policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton...
...Hernandez says she hopes that she will eventually be able to start an NGO in Mexico that will give students the resources to focus on their studies, just as her scholarship to Exeter allowed...