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Though Little Lulu has been hard to find, "Nickelodeon Magazine" has almost secretly been funding new kids comics. Though usually unavailable in comics shops, since its inception in 1993, the cable-network affiliated monthly has been commissioning many of alternative comix' most interesting artists to fill its back pages. Why they have yet to collect the best of these works into a full book is beyond me, but at least they have finally issued a short compilation in magazine form as part of the their "Nick Mag Presents" series (58 pages; $5). Available where the magazine is sold, the issue...
...Nick Mag comics issue with "Little Lulu" reveals some interesting similarities and differences. The use of licensed characters is one thing the two share. I'll admit to having a knee-jerk negative reaction at seeing Spongebob Squarepants and Jimmy Neutron, two characters who started on the Nickelodeon TV network, with their own strips. Synergistic marketing makes me queasy. But it's easy to forget that Lulu was already a star of other media and advertising campaigns at the time of her comic book appearance. What the creators do with the characters matters most, as proven by Lulu's classic...
Instead of further probing the question as to why female undergraduates tend not to be elected to head political organizations, women have formed and flocked to new campus organizations such as the Women’s Leadership Network, the Women’s Leadership Project, the Conservative Women’s Caucus, and the Seneca. These organizations guarantee leadership experience and executive roles for undergraduate women without forcing them to face the biases against female leaders. Moreover, they offer female undergraduates same-gendered mentors and with venues to present and educate the campus on women’s issues...
...forcing Hilton to apologize to friends and family for the invasion of privacy, and offering the rest of us a valuable lesson: your mobile phone is more vulnerable than you ever realized. "What you have in your hand is a small, powerful computer connected to a public network," says Aloysius Cheang of the Singapore-based information-security nonprofit SIG^2. The latest generation of phones offer e-mail and Internet access, which create new avenues for hackers or viruses to infiltrate...
...that over 80 percent of the purchasers of hip hop music are not black. Hip hop dominates media outlets, fashion, sports, artwork, and popular lexicon. Hip hop also serves as an effective tool to politically engage and mobilize youth, as evidenced by Russell Simmons’ Hip Hop Action Network and Sean “P. Diddy” Combs’ Citizen Change project. We have also seen the emergence of hip hop cultures all over the world. Halifu Osumare, a lecturer in African American Studies at University of California Berkeley, stated in a press release regarding his course...