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Just a year earlier, Rees was working as a temp in the Harvard Planning and Real Estate office. But, thanks to Osama Bin Laden and the editors of Rolling Stone, Rees unexpectedly rode his new comic strip to underground cultural icon status...
It’s a luxury he couldn’t afford when he was living in Boston, working various temp jobs at preschools, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and finally at Harvard Planning and Real Estate, where he was an assistant to the chief financial officer...
Rees moved to the Boston area in 1994 after graduating from Oberlin College. When he wasn’t working odd jobs for a temp agency, he spent his six years here working on early versions of his current comic strips. At that point, he hadn’t really touched on politics in his artwork—his big projects were “My New Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable,” a cartoon about ninjas who do nothing but yell at each other and make threats, and its office humor spin...
LIVING ROOM COUCH—At the dawn of summer freedom, I thought that fulfillment would come from an internship or a temp job and a few weekends at the beach. I had no idea that I would also spend the next three months destroying mythical monsters, cavorting with Greek gods and repeatedly saving the world from the schemes of a mad scientist...
...have somehow become the novelist's shorthand for the middle-class everyman. Paul Trilby, the hero of James Hynes' Kings of Infinite Space (St. Martin's; 341 pages), is the proud possessor of a Ph.D. in English, an illustrious achievement that has earned him a job as an office temp at the General Services Division of the Texas Department of General Services. TxDoGS, as its denizens call it, is a dreary cubicle farm consecrated to obscure bureaucratic functions. When a co-worker dies at his desk while working overtime on a pointless assignment, Paul's low-level anomie turns...