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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...nostalgia movement. While plenty of women still cut clothes from Simplicity patterns, there is a distinctly hip subset of fashionable crafters who are more interested in sewing as an expression of individuality than as a tradition. "This isn't your grandmother's craft," observes Bostonian Leah Kramer, 30, who likes to take old boxy rock-concert T shirts and transform them into baby-doll fashion statements. "One way to express your creativity is your clothing. If you make a cool dress out of some sheets that you bought at a thrift store, that says a lot about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pretty Crafty | 3/1/2005 | See Source »

Elaine replacing her friends with “Bizarro Jerry,” “Bizarro Kramer,” and “Bizarro George” on Seinfeld, shows the hilarity that ensues when classic figures are seen just slightly askew. As in that episode, DC’s Bizarro World, is a compilation featuring familiar characters including Batman, Superman, and Green Lantern interpreted slightly differently from their archetypal form, by a series of independent and, often, unknown creative teams...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Comics Review: Bizarro World | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

...ROUGH EDGES: a page from C.F.'s "Castor and Pollux" in "Kramer's Ergot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of the Anthology | 11/24/2004 | See Source »

...spite of "Kramer's" monumentalizing, none of the contributors seem outclassed. The deluxe treatment brings out a level of artistry in even the simplest style. The ones who specialize in complex detail are put to special advantage. Marc Bell, for example, creates fantastical, hilarious universes filled with characters doing something in every corner. Besides a fearlessness of "blowing up" edgy creators, Harkham's boldness also shows itself in a willingness to expose the materials of comix. The typically taboo corners, edges and surfaces of the original artwork have been made fully visible in some cases. "Castor and Pollux," a poetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of the Anthology | 11/24/2004 | See Source »

...year of excellent anthologies both "Kramer's Ergot" and "Scheherazade" stand out as exceptional. Anthologies live or die by their editor's hand. "Kramer's Ergot" #5 and "Scheherazade" both provide smartly guided rides through some of comix' unexplored and gorgeous hinterlands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of the Anthology | 11/24/2004 | See Source »

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