Word: kramer
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...Kramer's Ergot" number...
...Kramer's Ergot" number four (Avodah Books; 324 pp.; $24.95), a mammoth example of these new books, gives strong competition to high-end museum catalogues but at one-quarter the price. Avodah Books boils down to one man, Sammy Harkham, a big, bearded guy in his twenties who means to knock you out with aesthetic overload. "Ergot" is not a book to take on a plane to lose yourself in a great story. Many of the contributions couldn't even be called comix and most of the rest have nonsensical, free-associative narratives. Collage and full-page illustration mix with...
...Kramer's Ergot" number...
...stood out. ?Project: Telstar? (AdHouse; $16.95) printed in black, white and an iridescent silver ink features short stories about robots or space. Using a varied range of styles and sensibilities, it completely defies the genre stereotypes associated with sci-fi. The other standout anthology was the mammoth 350-page ?Kramer?s Ergot? number four (Avodah/Alternative Comics; $25). Printed in full color, it gives some of the medium?s edgiest (and youngest) artists the opportunity to break out of the muddy world of Kinko?s photocopies and indulge themselves...
...like McDonough. No longer able to work, he spends his days doing crossword puzzles and preparing again for court. That was not the intention of the first jury, whose award was based not on mere sympathy but on calculations of McDonough's direct financial burden. According to foreman Joanne Kramer, in arriving at the $5.8 million in damages, the jury considered everything from home health-care aides to a van, a wheelchair, the loss of his home and the loss of income for his wife, who spends hours every day caring for him. Jurors also discussed whether McDonough's award...