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...Leela Palace, tel: (91-832) 287 1234, is something of an institution, setting the benchmark for opulence in Goa for many years before the arrival of slicker competition. Its palatial lobby is still impressive, though some say the standard of service has fallen off in recent times. Take note though: Aman, the Singapore-based resort chain, just took over the running of the property and has plans to upgrade...
Like the end of the harvest, we come to the last of our month-long survey of recent comix by women cartoonists. Leela Corman's "Subway Series," Debbie Drechsler's "The Summer of Love," Lynda Barry's "One Hundred Demons," and Phoebe Gloeckner's "The Diary of a Teenage Girl" are all semi-autobiographical stories about a young woman's adolescence. We saved the most difficult for last...
...would have to hunt pretty hard for stories that were remotely about their lives. How remarkable then that four different books, each by a woman cartoonist writing about growing up, have appeared or will appear this fall. Covering each book on a successive week in October, TIME.comix first examined Leela Corman's "Subway Series," about the tensed-up life of a modern, urban high-school girl. This week we go out to the 'burbs of the 1960s for Debbie Drechsler's rich, pastoral "The Summer of Love" (Drawn and Quarterly; 160pp...
...teenage life that Leela Corman depicts in "Subway Series" has less in common with the world of Archie and Veronica and more in common with the movie "Kids." Adults would be appalled at the amount of sex, drugs and danger these characters indulge in. But teenagers would recognize it as totally accurate...
...Tina goes jogging in Leela Corman's "Subway Series...