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Jimmy Corrigan requires a similar intensity from the reader. Ware's work is languorous but dense, interspersed with tiny print and pictures that force one to crane over it, literally trying to enter the book. Many of the spreads, including the fold-open dust jacket, are crazy quilts, stitched with dotted lines and arrows, as if the very seams were straining to contain the story. "You have to keep turning the book," says New Yorker cartoonist Art Spiegelman, who first nationally published Ware in Raw magazine. "It's a dizzy-making, Oz-like tornado that takes you out of Kansas...
Miguel Adrover's formidable buzz has been built on the strength of just two tiny shows. After the second one, in which he showed a jacket made from the ticking taken off a mattress that was discarded on the street (and reportedly had belonged to the recently deceased Quentin Crisp), the fashion pages were practically wet from all the drooling. They raved over the inventiveness and "elegant edginess" of such outfits as the the two pairs of flannel pants with Hermes belts, one of which was retailored as a jacket, right, or the navy sweatshirts with Yankees baseball caps worked...
That last line is something of a refrain for Max, who sends his 11-year-old son to parochial school because the public school is a disaster. "Every four years, here's another guy in pants and a jacket telling us he's the education President. Am I right, or am I right? The Republicans were in charge for 12 years, and you couldn't send your kids to public school. The Democrats take over for eight years; nothing changes. Now George Bush is going to fix the public schools? Same guy who went to Andover and Yale?" Max throws...
...depicting tattoos of an American eagle while his back was adorned with a large flag. There was another fellow carrying around a sign that read "Nominate Jimmy Carter to Unite the Reform Party." And there was Jim Bourassa, founding chairman of the Arizona Reform party, who wears on his jacket not a political button but a large photograph of recently-deceased actor Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi. Bourassa says the photo gives him otherworldly powers to wrest political might away from Buchanan. "We're using the Force to save the party," he says with a straight face...
...after all, in the fall of 1973, wearing his flight jacket to class as a big I'M NOT ONE OF YOU sign to the lefty Cambridge crowd. He hadn't got into law school, training ground for polemicists, but business school suited him; it was for dealmakers. "He was trying to figure out what to do with his life," said classmate Al Hubbard. "He was there to get prepared, but he didn't know for what...