Word: superheroism
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...taught artist, Hornschemeier, 27, says that when he was growing up in his hometown of Georgetown, Ohio, his access to comics was limited to what he could find at the county fair and in dentists' offices. As "the kid in school who could draw," he had ambitions of creating superhero comics until, he says, "my stories were getting much less superhero-y and much more about a guy sitting in his bedroom wondering what he's going to do for the day." He had never read comics that explored personal issues, so he gave up on the idea. Then...
...Dollman and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. Later he created the Spirit, a witty antihero with no superpowers who roamed back alleys in search of bad guys, and wrote one of the first graphic novels, about a Bronx, N.Y., slumlord, A Contract with God. "My interest is not the superhero," he said, "but the little man who struggles to survive in the city...
...very impressed during the 1970s with French comics that were very high contrast black and white drawings by artists like Tardi or Hugo Pratt, who came from Italy. And I was very influenced in art by the expressionist work of George Grosz. I was not very fond of superhero books. For me comics are not so different from literature or movies or theater or the other cultural things I took in during the period of the book...
...emotional range" to play those kinds of bravura roles convincingly. John C. Reilly, DiCaprio's friend and co-star in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Gangs and The Aviator, particularly admires his buddy's restraint. "After Titanic, he could have cranked 'em out in a major way, been a superhero many times over. But he shames his peer group with his commitment to quality. He's used his capital wisely...
Pixar, the ingenious powerhouses of animation that brought the world personified toys, monsters and phosphorescent fish, has taken on a PG-rated action adventure for its latest premise: the story of an average superhero family.In his glory days, Bob Parr (Craig T. Nelson) was known to the world as Mr. Incredible, a superhero capable of foiling a bank robbery, stopping a runaway locomotive and coaxing a kitten down from a tree all on the way to his wedding. Segue to fifteen years later and Mr. Incredible and his wife Helen, formerly known as Elastigirl (Holly Hunter), and their three children...