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...years ago but has special relevance today. That is so partly because many of those who benefited during a decade of madness not only have gone unpunished but are trying to make a comeback, and partly because a story that so vividly documents the triumph of the human spirit over inhumanity is always relevant. Nien Cheng, 72, born into a wealthy landowning family, met her husband, Kang-chi Cheng, in 1935 in England, where both were studying at the London School of Economics. The husband, a diplomat in the Kuomintang regime, was enough of an optimist to decide to remain...
...longer felt the cold in the cell. The guard told me to stay in bed. I slept most of the time, in a state of semiconsciousness, with fantastic dreams of myself floating in and out of the cell through the iron-barred window as if I were an ethereal spirit. One morning the young man came back and said, ''You don't have hepatitis. It's probably TB. A lot of prisoners have TB. You may go to the hospital to have a fluoroscope.'' The waiting room of the prison hospital could only be described as a scene of hell...
...Jules Feiffer Little Nemo in Slumberland Richard Corliss: Harvey Kurtzman TIME: Al Feldstein TIME: Peanuts in the Gallery Masters of American Comics The Spirit Archives ABSOLUTELY...
...Sadly, comic book artists have long regarded themselves as second-class citizens in the world of storytelling," wrote Frank Miller, who did the Sin City graphic novels (and co-directed the film version), in his intro to the fourth volume of The Spirit Archives. He says the result has been "a field that is constantly looking to other media for validation. ?See? We use REAL PAINTING, just like FINE ARTISTS...
...lovers, invest your money in the Little Nemo book; in The Spirit Archives; in the spectacular enlarged reproduction of Mad comics that Russ Cochran produced in the 80s, or the MAC OS X compilation of all Mad magazines. Sit at your computer, snuggle up in bed or sprawl on the floor with the book open before you. Be a kid again, discovering the low thrills and high art of old Comics Books. You don't need a museum to tell you that this stuff is great...