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...Kim Deitch, though he has worked in underground comix since the mid-1960s, has unfortunately achieved little of the mainstream recognition afforded such peers as Robert Crumb and Art Spiegelman. Considered by the comixcenti to be a master of the form, he may finally get his due with the commercial, retail bookstore release of his masterpiece, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," (Pantheon Books; 192pp...
...main themes in "Boulevard," and a main theme in all of Kim Deitch's work, is the blurring of fantasy and reality. One typical scene depicts the recording of sound for a Waldo picture. The comic cuts back and forth between what's happening in the cartoon and what's going on in the studio. The cartoon is itself a parody of what goes on in the animation studio. Finally, the cartoon characters appear to step off of the screen and into the same space as the "real" people. But Deitch goes one further - mixing up true reality with...
...After thirty-five years, it's about time Kim Deitch gets his due. The rich ideas and beautiful cartooning of "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," should be just the work to do it. While Deitch likes to explore the seamy, adult world behind the delightful veneer of kiddy pop culture, the book's central theme becomes the transporting power of great Art - even in the form of a cartoon. In the final pages, a tour de force wherein Deitch mixes three different planes of cartoon storytelling, the normally malevolent Waldo has the final...
...Janet L. Kim ’04, Kirkland House I don’t know what I’m going to do with my life. I don’t know if I want to go abroad for the semester. I feel like I’m at the wrong place sometimes because I’m interested in more artsy stuff. I’m trying to figure out whether or not to go to Paris for the semester...
...Relatives of the victims aren't buying anything North Korea says about the abductees. They want independent confirmation that the people on Kim's list are who the North Koreans claim they are. Umemoto's only proof that he was speaking to Megumi Yokota's daughter, for instance, was a dated photo of Megumi and an old badminton racquet. Yet the Yokotas have not given in to despair. If the girl in Pyongyang really is their granddaughter, says Megumi's father Shigeru, he and his wife are ready to go there to meet her. "We'd like to find...