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...Chris Ware lives in the past is like saying the Queen of England lives in a house. Ware turns the past into a palace. In 2000's Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Ware ransacks the history of cartooning, borrowing from 19th century lithography, superhero comics and Sunday funnies to create a visual language in which panels twist across the page like a drunken conga line...
...possible to find the key to a life's mysteries or an artist's work? That's the tantalizing question asked both by and of Chris Ware, the lauded comix author of "Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth." The question appears in the form of two new books by Ware, "Quimby the Mouse," (Fantagraphics Books; 68pp.; $24.95) and "The Acme Novelty Date Book" (Drawn & Quarterly; 208 pp.; $39.95). The first collects the author's published works from the early 1990s, while he was still a student. The "Date Book" contains excerpts from the artist's sketchbooks kept between...
...parents always said it was a nice Scottish name. But back in the '60s, when I was a kid, Bruce was for some reason the jokey, archetypal name for male hairdressers and interior designers, as Tex is for cowboys. In those days, unfortunately, I wasn't secure about my own masculinity...
...Rachel Wood) to the brink of disaster. It contains a nice, dithering performance by Holly Hunter as a mom making a living by hairdressing at home while trying to sustain a relationship with an unpromising guy (Jeremy Sisto). In the latter, the mother Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her kid are magically obliged to switch roles, with Mom enduring a day as a teenager and the teenager taking over the woman's psychology practice...
PAWS ACROSS AMERICA. Every hipster’s favorite laptop punks—the Tigerbeat 6 crew—leave their footprints on Cambridge with performances by Kid 606, Dwayne Sodahberk and DJ /rupture, a.k.a. Jace Clayton ’97. Expect rousing, hyperdistorted mashups of Missy and jump-up jungle from the Kid, but be sure to check out /rupture on the decks—he creates narratives that subvert expectations and shatter synapses, throwing down everyone from Edgard Varese to the Clipse. And of course, the latest in bad man riddims from Kingston. Saturday, August...