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...stereotypes aside, an upcoming show at the Fogg Museum will feature the stunning results the fluid medium can generate...
...watercolors weren’t always so carefully preserved. Until the late-nineteenth century, watercolor was considered an inferior medium, suitable only for preparatory sketches and amateur entertainment...
Abel has made a name for herself by writing short fiction that mostly features loquacious urban hipsters. (Also a tireless supporter of the medium, she was one of the organizers of a short-lived series of slide-show comix "happenings" in 2001.) Her first novel-length work, La Perdida has an unusual style for comix: Unlike most of her fellow North American graphic novelists, Abel doesn't use humor, irony or traditional comic book genres. Instead, she has created something all too rare in the medium: a realistic drama for adults told in a straightforward manner. The approach makes sense...
...until this not-entirely convincing last act, Abel's focus on relationships and Carla's changing sense of self makes La Perdida one of the strongest and most challenging works of character study in the medium. Why challenging? Because Abel makes a gutsy move of creating characters that you can't automatically like, and to whom you never warm up in the course of the story. Even Carla, the most sympathetic of the cast, seems na?ve at best and stupidly unaware at worst. She keeps company with a spoiled snob, an arrogant blowhard and a fantasy-filled...
Back in the Square, customers pay $3.25 for a small, $3.75 for a medium, and $4.25 for a large cup of ice cream at the Ben & Jerry’s location in the Garage. At Ben & Jerry’s in the Prudential Center, their smallest scoop is $3, a regular cup is $4, and a large is $5. At the branch on Newbury Street, a small cup is $3.50, a medium is $4.25, and a large...