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...harvest, we come to the last of our month-long survey of recent comix by women cartoonists. Leela Corman's "Subway Series," Debbie Drechsler's "The Summer of Love," Lynda Barry's "One Hundred Demons," and Phoebe Gloeckner's "The Diary of a Teenage Girl" are all semi-autobiographical stories about a young woman's adolescence. We saved the most difficult for last...
...test, the savvy marshals were working the room, or rather, the yard. But they didn’t stop with freshman week. As Monique says, “this meeting and greeting session lasted for the better part of the year.” It helps to have a semi-notorious entryway too. Pat proudly recalls that “the fifth-floor Thayer boys” were so social he says his assistant dean of freshmen labeled the posse “the worst corner of Harvard freshmen in Harvard history,” while Krish describes his Greenough...
Vellucci held a special animus for the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
...many respects, Parker is like current Los Angeles Lakers’ coach Phil Jackson—subdued and semi-mysterious. Never in-your-face, he is always laid back, allowing his silence to speak volumes and never fully articulating what is on his mind. Even without significant effort on his part, his legendary status motivates his rowers...
Lynda Barry's new book may present a problem for the librarians smart enough to purchase it. Barry classifies her book as "autobifictionalography." Should libraries start a new section? Maybe. It wouldn't be the only book there. No fewer than four semi-autobiographical books about growing up, all by women cartoonists, have appeared or will appear this fall. TIME.comix has dedicated each week in October to covering a different volume...