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Chris Oliveros is about what you would expect for a publisher of literate comic books. Friends refer to him as "self-effacing," "long-suffering," "the quiet type who stands aside." But the founder and owner of Montreal publisher Drawn & Quarterly is blessed with a sharp eye, a strong sense of what he likes and a commitment to making beautiful, if unconventional, books. For the past 14 years, Oliveros has attracted top cartoonists from Canada, the U.S. and elsewhere to make Drawn & Quarterly the classiest comic publisher in North America...
...MARIE-LOUISE DERUAZ--KLIXPIX FOR TIME DRAWN TO IT: Oliveros, at D&Q's offices in Montreal, tries to be a hands-off editor...
...Oliveros got hooked on comics as a kid in Montreal, reading American superhero strips when that was about all one could get. At age 18 he attended art school in New York City but lacked focus. After two years he returned to Montreal, earned a liberal-arts degree and held a series of odd jobs. At age 23, inspired by RAW, a comics magazine published by Art Spiegelman and Fran?oise Mouly in the 1980s, Oliveros dreamed up a forum for short stories in comic-book form that he hoped would be, he says, "like Harper's or the New Yorker...
Catalina Ponor wants to be the next Nadia Comaneci. At the Montreal Olympics in 1976, the 14-year-old Romanian gymnast revolutionized her sport by scoring the first-ever perfect 10.00 on the uneven bars, capturing hearts all over the world and launching an era of child gymnastics stars. Ponor, at 16, has superb balance and a rare clarity of artistic expression that recalls Comaneci. Whether she has Comaneci's effortless grace under pressure won't become clear until she competes in Athens, but Comaneci herself says Ponor has "everything it takes to be a champion." And Ponor leaves...
...been at MIT for 21 years so it was a good time for a change,” says the Montreal, Canada native. “Also my interests have broadened since I’ve arrived at MIT” to the realms of evolutionary biology and physical anthropology—areas which, he says, he will be able to more effectively explore at Harvard...