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Seyeong O's Buja's Diary may be even more shocking to U.S. readers given the dearth of comix from South Korea. Called "manwha" in their native country, the few examples published in the U.S. by the likes of Tokyopop are indistinguishable from their Japanese counterparts in their adolescent focus...
Tatsumi's The Push Man collects stories written in 1969, with an eye towards annual volumes that will collect more of this prolific artist's decades-long career. Totally absent of giant robots, schoolgirl romantic melodrama or any manner of supernatural beings, the stories of The Push Man are set...
But amid the horrific tales of puppies in pillowcases and decapitated dogs, the scientists get a few laughs too. In 2004 some Texans sent samples of what they were convinced was a chupacabra--a legendary hairless beast that drains the blood of its prey. "We don't do that kind...
Yet Covarrubias, true to his Mexican roots, was always ambivalent about the glittering world of caf? society. For their honeymoon, he and his wife Rose sailed to Bali, in search of a more contemplative life. When they arrived, the Covarrubiases were befriended by Walter Spies, who lived at the royal...
Prized Paleness Alex Perry's letter from Bombay, "Could You Please Make Me a Shade Lighter?" [Dec. 5], reported that the desire for a lighter skin color is a national obsession in India. But Indians are not the only people who view fair skin as an ideal. It is no...