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...Berlin: City of Stones" ($15.95) by Jason Lutes is a paperback published by Drawn & Quarterly. It can be found at superior comicbook stores, and the Drawn & Quarterly website...
...Berlin: City of Stones," by Jason Lutes This paperback collects the first eight issues of a projected 25-issue series that takes place in Weimar Berlin. If it reaches completion, this will be the longest, most sophisticated work of historical fiction in the medium. Lutes has a natural, clean, European drawing style, much like Hergé's "Tintin." This first volume follows a young woman art student who meets a weary leftist journalist against a background of boiling politics and decadence. Only eight issues in, and already this book has the density of the best novels...
...Luba" ($2.95 each) by Gilbert Hernandez and 'Naughty Bits' ($2.95 each) by Roberta Gregory are published by Fantagraphics books. Stories from "Luba" and other Gilbert Hernandez titles have been collected into paperback: "Fear of Comics" ($12.95). Likewise there are four collections of "Naughty Bits" material ($9.95 each). All should be available at better bookstores, superior comic book stores, and from the publisher's website...
Rodriguez lent me the thing, which is roughly the size of a paperback novel. It has a short, ugly black antenna that screws on. For power, you can plug it into the wall or use a battery pack. It's simple to operate: you flip a switch, and the appliance does its thing, obliterating cellular transmissions in an area comparable to a medium-size movie theater. That's in cities; out in the country, where the distance between cells is greater, the device can take out one whole floor of a building...
...Cable TV news: Splitsville! This is the dream of every American who loves nonstop media circuses and nightmare scenarios straight out of an airport paperback: A plurality of the people vote for one candidate (most likely Bush) while the electoral college makes the other (presumably Gore) president. Would it mean a constitutional crisis? Full-scale lobbying of electors to change their votes? Maybe and maybe - but it would definitely mean some measure of suspense and controversy until the electors actually vote. Better yet, it would mean four years of bitter recriminations of a president, whoever it ends up being, viewed...