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...Today, despite years of preferential treatment, Malays account for no more than one-fifth of corporate ownership, even though they make up more than half the population. Mahathir's attempts to reintroduce English as the medium of instruction and to roll back education and possibly business quotas for Malays have met stiff resistance from ordinary Malays. And his patronage of key Malay businessmen has also been less than successful; many wound up bankrupt, forcing the government to bail them out. "He's fed up," says Azim Zabidi, a former member of UMNO's Supreme Council...
...great works of art must at least pass this test: does it use the unique properties of its medium to further the meaning of the work? Beyond that, does it offer us a new experience? Does that experience have depth, rewarding revisitation? Lastly, does it posses that aesthetic quality, that no matter the substance, can be called beauty? "Epileptic," (L'Association; 176pp.; $24.95), the graphical autobiography by David B. (né Pierre-François Beauchard), passes all of these tests, making it one of the "must-haves...
...stricken family member to fuel a story that goes back and forth in time, examining the repercussions on the author. Both have a deeply-informed sense of personal history within the context of world events and culture, making sense of the relationship between the two. Lastly, both use the medium of comics to further the meaning of the work, creating a unique and lasting contribution to the art form...
...Reading Zaben's oeuvre brings the films of John Cassavetes to mind. To enjoy both auteurs you need to divest yourself of the usual expectation for their chosen medium. Both use minimal plot devices as the seeds to study character and relationships in believable ways. The results are often as disorienting as life. Ever wonder why someone does something, or what, exactly is the relationship between two people? Welcome to Zaben's world. Although his two previous books were more confusing than revelatory, with "Tuesday and Thursday," Zaben has found the right balance between story arc and smart character writing...
Fans and retailers in the comics industry have known for decades that we've been sitting on a gold mine for movie adaptations. Comics are an incredibly literate medium, producing stories of the same quality as any movie, novel or TV show today; still the general public seems to think that comics are only for semiliterate geeks or deviants--kids who haven't grown up yet. But comics fans pray the success of Spider-Man will not be a fad and people will become more interested in buying comics than plush toys and video games. Comics educate as they entertain...