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Justin perches serenely on a swivel-top stool, a wooly red scarf wrapped around his face. He lists his interests as "playing, rolling cars, and this"--he brandishes a crumpled package od Starburst candies...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: Eating Hot Dogs at the Midnight Hour | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

...draws Les Frustrés at home, a sixth-floor Montmartre walkup she shares with her photographer husband (they have no children). Bretécher usually cannot face her drawing board and swivel-top piano stool until the day the strip is due. As comely as her characters are homely, she patronizes the same voguish boutiques and is occasionally oppressed by the same fashionable insecurities as those she parodies. Except one. "The seriousness and dogmatism of the feminist movement have become appalling," says Bretécher. The dogma that appalled her most when she began to sour on the movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Slicing the Baloney with Style | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

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