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...newsletter to fight for a leash-free park in Berkeley, Calif., but it has turned into the New Yorker for dog lovers. With 75,000 subscribers and the motto "Dog is my co-pilot," the magazine has featured writers such as Amy Tan, Peter Mayle and Lynda Barry, and has run a long article on canine blood banks and a regular column on animal behavior called "Both Ends of the Leash." And then there's the four-year-old Animal Fair, a lifestyle magazine that claims a circulation of 200,000, 70% of whom are women. Renee Zellweger, Sarah Michelle...
...final Eisner Award nominee list made far more sense than any committee-created list had any right to. It has a very strong showing of interesting, independent works. I arrived at San Diego worried about having to argue the merits of David B.'s masterful "Epileptic," (see review) and Lynda Barry's fascinating "One Hundred Demons," (see review) but instead I was pleasantly surprised at how open the judges were to the strengths of such material. Both ended up with a Best Graphic Album - New nomination. The nominees will now be voted on by industry professionals and the winners announced...
...DIED. LYNDA VAN DEVANTER, 55, who wrote searingly of her time as a Vietnam nurse; of a vascular disease perhaps related to Agent Orange; in Herndon, Va. Her book, Home Before Morning, told of the horror of combat surgery--of drunk doctors, lost patients and the special loneliness of a female veteran of our most loathed...
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...
...Using acutely-observed humor to explore the pain of growing up, Lynda Barry's "One Hundred Demons" masterfully captures that period in all our lives when we begin to feel alone in the world. Fictional or not, Barry's demons have the kind of authenticity that make them totally real...