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...DIED. JACEK KURON, 70, chain-smoking Polish academic and dissident in the 1970s who helped topple his country's communist regime; in Warsaw. As a co-founder of the Committee for the Defense of Workers (KOR), he helped bring Polish intellectuals into the fold of future President Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement. In 1989 he became Labor Minister in Poland's first democratic government (in which welfare payments were popularly dubbed "Kuron's money"), but his 1995 bid for the presidency failed. Upon Kuron's death, Walesa said, "There would have been no success or victory without him, without...
...DIED. JACEK KURON, 70, chain-smoking Polish academic who helped topple his country's communist regime; in Warsaw. As a co-founder of the Committee to Assist Workers (KOR), he helped bring Polish intellectuals into future President Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement. In 1989 he became Labor Minister in Poland's first democratic government (whose welfare payments were popularly dubbed "Kuron's Money"), but his 1995 bid for the presidency foundered. Upon Kuron's death, Walesa said: "There would have been no success or victory without...
There's also a sense of history that rarely appears in American comix. Jacek Fras mixes collage with silly cartoon characters in a story that takes place during the Polish resistance against the Nazis. Jurcan & Cvek's "Condemned Ideas" examines the failure of ideologies from Fascism to Communism to Capitalism. But the most unifying trait turns out to be a kind of dark, absurdist sensibility. In Goran Feniks' "A Weird Story," a man takes care of some paperwork while plummeting to his death from an airplane explosion. There's ample amounts of satire and schadenfruede, but little humor...