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...personal favorite of NBM's recent adaptations, "The Yellow Jar" (48 pp.; $12.95) by the previously unpublished Patrick Atangan, doesn't look or read anything like your typical Japanese comic. No saucer eyes, robots or schoolgirl outfits can be found. With Hokusai and Gustav Klimt as his influences Atangan has adapted a pair of Japanese folk tales into a gorgeous hybrid of comix and prints of ancient Japan. The titular story begins when a fisherman collects a yellow jar in his net. Somewhat disappointed that it contains no treasure, instead he finds that it holds a sleeping woman. She agrees...
...Ride Together: A Brother and Sister's Memoir of Autism in the Family (Washington Square Press; 200 pp.; $20) by Judy and Paul Karasik alternates prose chapters written by Judy with comix by Paul. The resulting tag-team style provides two sides of a family's story of growing up with an autistic older brother. David Karasik, born in the 1940s, was first diagnosed as having "aphasia," or being "brain damaged," long before autism became a concept that TIME magazine would put on its cover. As the Karasiks describe him, David struggles to put order to a world that arrives...
...Raeburn manages to combine murder, drug abuse, rape, torture and comix criticism in the latest installment of his yearly journal "The Imp" (self-published; $20; 112 pp.) With each issue focused on a singular artist or genre - Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware and the religious tracts of Jack T. Chick have each been a subject - this year's book examines Mexico's historietas. Depicting every imaginable perversity these small, square booklets exist in a cultural twilight zone. While immensely popular, they are considered basura (trash) by everyone involved, including the people who make them, and therefore utterly ignored. Like a twisted...
First Period: H, Botterill (Corriero, Ruggiero), 4:36. H, Chu (Corriero, Botterill), 5:13. H, Banfield (Raimondi), 9:19. H, Catlin (Ruggiero),. 10:23. Second Period: H, Ruggiero (Botterill), 1:03 (pp). H, Botterill (Holbrook, Crum), 5:45 (pp). H, Botterill (Chu, Ruggiero), 9:22 (pp). H, Raimondi, 11:04 (pp). H, McAuliffe (Catlin, Van Reesema), 16:04 (pp). Third Period: H, Corriero (Chu, Ruggiero), 18:58. Powerplay: C 0-1, H 5-8. Goalies: C Lahar (51-41), H Ruddock (4-4) Smith...
First Period: H, Botterill (Ruggiero, Chu) 12:35 (pp). Second Period: No scoring. Third period: D, Rooth (Holst, Potter) 0:49. H, Chu (Botterill) 19:32 (pp...