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...humor here. His 48 paintings and drawings on Abu Ghraib have a haunting grimness that "came out of the heart," Botero told TIME. On a flight from Bogotá to Paris last November, Botero tore an article on the abuses from a magazine and whipped out his sketchbook. "I began drawing immediately and when I got to Paris I kept going," he says; he worked for several months before completing the series. Botero, 73, says artists have for too long abandoned warfare to photojournalists. Picasso's 1937 masterpiece Guernica became the most lasting image of the Spanish Civil...
...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 includes full color contributions from the likes of Craig Thompson ("Blankets"), James Kochalka ("The Sketchbook Diaries") and even underground veteran Bobby London...
...their long rule - which ended in the early 20th century - are represented by the gold-decorated ceremonial sword of Süleyman I ("the Magnificent"), its hilt of walrus ivory missing the precious stones it once held; colorful caftans belonging to Mehmed II ("the Conqueror"), as well as the sketchbook he may have carried to lessons as a young prince. "Turks" ends with a flourish: the opulent peak of Ottoman influence more than four centuries ago, when the rulers subsidized a wide range of decorative but practical objects, including bronze lamps, candlesticks and ceramics. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan...
...woman living in an apartment building. One remarkable page encapsulates the lives of the building's residents, along with a bee, through schematically arranged, interconnecting panels. The book also features "Drill Core Sample," by Gary Panter, the cartoonist's cartoonist since the 1980s. Comprised of one page from a sketchbook done in each of the last 30 years, it offers a fascinating slice of his evolving interest in the constructs of "cartoons." Of the work by relative newcomers, "My Sexual History (Slightly Abridged Version)," by David Heatley (who also appears in "McSweeny's" #13), stands out as another...
...Voyage" (Top Shelf; 224 pages; $15). Creator of the lauded and successful graphic novel "Blankets," Thompson's introductory insistence that "Carnet" is not his "next book," tries to disarm any critics, but he needn't have worried. Seemingly unedited, "Carnet" chronicles, in the form of an engrossing diary sketchbook, Thompson's European author tour, with a side trip to Morocco, during the spring of 2004. With all of its pages drawn from life, here at last we have one continuous journey, rich with detail of place and characters, told with humor, pathos and insight...