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Many of the tapestries in this exhibition have an accompanying story, song, or poem. The closest Sulca gets to literalism is probably “Weaving Life,” which uses the legend of the spider-storyteller to depict the major events of Peruvian history as symbols in a web. In this tapestry the correlation between the story and the symbol is clear and beautifully executed—but not as compelling as when Sulca uses symbols to build a metaphor. Such is the case in “For a Better World,” based...
When a flood of charity comicbooks focusing on the events of September 11 hit the shelves TIME.comix had to divide its coverage into two parts. Last week covered the "alternative" books. This week we examine the "mainstream" efforts by the likes of Marvel (home of Spider-Man, Capt. America and the X-Men), DC (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, et al.) and smaller houses. The big question: would they, could they, put superheroes into the tragedy...
Marvel produced three benefit books, two of which use their characters to greater and lesser degrees. "The Amazing Spider-Man" #36 ($2.25; 32pp.), with an unusual jet-black cover, folds the WTC disaster into the continuity of the Marvel "universe," which uses New York as the home base for many of its characters. It is of little interest to anyone but collectors. "Heroes," ($3.50; 64pp.), a rapid-response poster book, came out a month and half after the disaster and has now gone into a third printing. It consists entirely of tableaus and portraits by Marvel's top talent past...
...Volumes 1 and Vol. 2, "Heroes," "The Amazing Spider-Man" #36, and "A Moment of Silence" can be found at any comicbook store...
...family is killed in a bomb blast in a skyscraper, was pulled from distribution, as was Big Trouble, a comedy - that's right, a comedy - about a bomb being smuggled onto an airplane. And technicians quickly worked to erase scenes of the World Trade Center towers from trailers for Spider-Man, while production of Men in Black 2, which was being shot in downtown New York, has been shut down indefinitely. Other films found unexpected audiences. Kandahar, an Iranian film about a young Afghan refugee living in Canada who returns home to try to help her troubled sister, has been...