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...Hutch Owen knows. He knows it's b.s. He's that little guy inside your mind telling you you're wasting your life in a cubicle. He's the one chiding you as you plop down your dough for some stupid new gadget. He's also the star of Tom Hart's scathing new collection, "Hutch Owen: Unmarketable!" (Top Shelf; 180 pages; $15) A devastating satire, "Unmarketable" feels like a scalding hot poker cauterizing the open wound of American corporate and consumer culture...
Part of the do-it-yourself generation of young comix makers that include James Kochalka and Jeffery Brown, Tom Hart first introduced Hutch Owen in 1994's self-published "Hutch Owen's Working Hard." Rendered in a blunt scrawl, its freedom from convention and its unusual political and social content made it a memorable debut for those lucky enough to find it. (Both this and other tales later appeared in 2000's "The Collected Hutch Owen.") Since then Hart has worked on other projects but Hutch Owen has continued as his enduring, evergreen character. "Unmarketable" brings together several pieces that...
...stricter minimum sentences for a whole range of federal offenses, and the Senate is sure to hold hearings, at the very least. Senate Judiciary Committee aides told TIME that they expect an enormous amount of litigation to result from the decision. From his vacation in the Caribbean, Republican Representative Tom Feeney of Florida issued a statement denouncing the Supreme Court for placing "extraordinary power ... in the hands of a single judge" and flying "in the face of the clear will of Congress...
Maybe the twixters are in denial about growing up, but the rest of society is equally in denial about the twixters. Nobody wants to admit they're here to stay, but that's where all the evidence points. Tom Smith, director of the General Social Survey, a large sociological data-gathering project run by the National Opinion Research Center, found that most people believe that the transition to adulthood should be completed by the age of 26, on average, and he thinks that number is only going up. "In another 10 or 20 years, we're not going...
TIME: After more than a decade at Staples, you took over from co-founder Tom Stemberg three years ago, just as the booming business of the '90s was slowing down. How big a challenge was that...