Word: juvenilia
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...makes "McSweeney's" #13 the finest comic anthology ever put together. Ware's talents as designer and editor have turned "McSweeney's" issue 13 into a work of extraordinary depth and beauty. It culminates his efforts at moving the public's idea of comic books from consumable juvenilia to museum-worthy artworks that still retain their puerile edge. (Ware's work has appeared in both the 2002 Whitney Biennial and Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.) This will be the standard that future books must meet...
...folks EMINEM has offended over the years--gays, women, his mother--the blond rapper seemed to avoid insulting African Americans. Until, that is, hip-hop magazine The Source dug up some Eminem juvenilia: "Blacks and whites, they sometimes mix/but black girls only want your money 'cause they're dumb chicks" are some of the milder lyrics on the tape. Responding to charges of racism, Eminem issued a statement saying the song was recorded after he broke up with a black girlfriend and "made out of anger, stupidity and frustration when I was a teenager." Hey, man, some of us just...
...Both "Quimby the Mouse" and "The Acme Novelty Date Book" are Chris Ware's search for answers to life's questions, and through his work it becomes our search as well. Though Chris Ware tries to dismiss "Quimby the Mouse" as juvenilia, we should all be so juvenile. Intensely thoughtful, funny, complex and beautiful, both the "Date Book," and "Quimby" do the right thing by asking questions but giving no answers...
...Reese Witherspoon's star is brighter than Elle Woods' pink suit. She'll look back on these films as her pre-Oscar juvenilia...
...Minutes” and The New Yorker, would pay heed to a semi-weekly barrage of juvenile insults (“You’ll be begging for hippies to take over your office when we’re done with you!”) and insulting juvenilia (see illustration of Summers, paunch out, barraged by tennis balls) from the staff of a shoddily distributed and quasi-pornographic student publication. As we noted in a moment of bitter self-reflection during week three...