Word: pencils
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...campuses, teaching and writing: poems, critical essays, reviews, a novel (Pictures from an Institution), translations and children's books. His visible eccentricities were mild. He appeared vain about his looks. As a young man, he turned himself out like a river boat gambler, slim, dark, natty and sporting a pencil mustache; in his late 30s he raised a bushy, patriarchal beard. When he was excited, his high, piercing voice had a tendency to rise in volume and exaggerate his Tennessee twang. For the most part, though, he kept his inner fires banked behind a façade of polite aloofness...
...compromise, traded charges of stubbornness and irresponsibility. Republicans were dismayed when Reagan caved in to Democratic pressure and rescinded their hard-won limits on Social Security increases. The President, usually a model of affability, blew up when the subject of taxes arose. "Damn it," he cried, slamming down his pencil, "I can't listen to all this." In the midst of the imbroglio sat one remarkably serene and smiling figure: David Stockman, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the straight-shooting point man of the Reagan Revolution. He could afford to be calm. After more than four years...
...preceding conformist, suburban decades. He drew and wrote whatever came into his mind, including fantasies of bizarre sex and physical disintegration, delineated with meticulous strokes of the pen. Visitors to the Whitechapel show, which runs until May 22, can trace the genesis of Fritz the Cat in pencil frames, interspersed with doodles of the large women Crumb adores. Fritz bounces down lovingly detailed streets, speaking in long, melodramatic balloons: "My Gabrielle! That you should deem me worthy of you fills me with an indescribable joy!" Crumb is not above making fun of himself, either. In San Francisco Comic Book...
...good as he's trying so hard to be. "That was the part where I felt the least self-consciousness," he says. "While I was writing it, I really felt like I had all these incredibly deep feelings and I was pushing them out the end of my pencil. This is what I want my writing to feel like...
...great little bonus, this collection includes several depictions of this process, showing side-by-side versions of the photo reference, pencil-sketched page and final product. It is a treat to see how eerily close the final panels are to the photos...