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...This hot new dance should become all the rage with comix dorks. "Soapin' Up the Hawg," as it will become known, is just one of the exciting, fun-tastic, utterly absurd delights to be found in the new book, "Shrimpy and Paul and Friends," (Highwater Books; 176pp.; $16.95) by Marc Bell...
...Clancy reader in your life? Well, it ought to be. "Shrimpy and Paul" works like a delightful palate refresher of nonsense that sharpens up taste buds long since dulled by greasy, unhealthy fare. Though it makes no conventional sense, "Shrimpy and Paul" is easy to read thanks to Marc Bell's sure hand at story structure. Each of the three main stories (along with the other one-page strips and ephemera that make up this collection) follow a narrative as solid as an Abbott and Costello picture. Shrimpy, the beatific upsetter causes trouble that the straight-man Paul must correct...
...this month by Fantagraphics Books.) Both systems operate under their own rules that always remain true to themselves. Woodring's Frank universe has a much darker set of rules. Danger lurks everywhere, with bizarre, often disguised creatures seeking to devour each other. It's a world mostly about karma. Marc Bell's creation has a much lighter tone, but no less intelligence. Enlightenment, prophesy and divinity are all themes played with by Bell, giving the Shrimpy-verse a greater depth than mere random nonsense...
When the team returned from Florida, the overwhelming sentiment was that Harvard was much improved—even without catcher Mickey Kropf, who transferred to Vanderbilt, and junior pitcher Marc Hordon, who was lost to a shoulder injury. Close losses to perennial powers Miami and Florida International, as well as stellar play from freshmen, left the team hopeful...
Even football, with its healthy TV ratings, saw little salary growth last year. Stars will still get big raises in major sports, consultant Marc Ganis says, but the athletic "middle class" will not. Gone are the days when Chris Dudley--a 7-ft. lumberer who once missed 19 straight free throws--could sign a $28 million deal. --By Sean Gregory