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While the vast majority of attendees spent their time pursuing the mainstream interests of superheroes, manga properties and movies like Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, fans of alternative comix had plenty to choose from. Proof of a rising tide lifting all boats, the indy publishers I spoke to were enjoying brisk and often record-breaking sales. Montreal's Drawn & Quarterly declared it the best year they ever had at San Diego, with Adrian Tomine's just-released "Scrapbook," a collection of ephemera by the former wunderkind, selling the best. The Seattle-based Fantagraphics reduced its table by half...
Picture an ocean as vast as continental Australia. Then double it. You're looking at an area larger than either the Arctic Ocean or Antarctica. It's certainly not as chilly as those two extremities, but that's the size of the ocean and continental shelf over which Australia claims control. While a 15 million-sq.-km maritime zone cannot possibly be protected in the usual sense, the fact that this briny buffer exists offers some peace of mind in an era of terrorism and illegal immigrants. A tight border-control regime means shuffling money, people, electronics, boats and airplanes...
Riversleigh's vast trove of fossils lets scientists see deep into the past - and unearth lessons for the future A certain type of person might regard Phil Creaser's life as a tiny bit humdrum. Fair-skinned and bespectacled, he works from a desk as a project coordinator in the Commonwealth public service, returning in the evenings to an empty house. In his free time, he keeps an eye on his elderly parents, loves a good trivia night, and has drinks every Friday evening with longstanding colleagues. Sporting interests? You bet: orienteering and rogaining, activities that allow him to indulge...
...back, ministering to roadhouses and sheep stations. "They're nearly all Catholic," he says of the people he visits, "but that's all right, because I'm the church presence out there at the moment." Malarrpa and Murray are but two of the foot soldiers in Wilmot's vast territory. But the tale of these two ministries shows the extent to which churches must cross borders - both geographical and cultural - to conquer distance and despondency...
...story of the injured girl will run in all three editions sold around the country. Getting them there after the presses stop around 2 a.m. is easier now that six different printing sites have largely replaced delivery planes and trucks. But haste and vast distances mean some copies still cost the company around $A25 each, says Mitchell. That's the price of being a national newspaper. "We don't just want to appeal to Balmain," he says. "We need to appeal to Carnarvon, too." When they open the paper tomorrow, the residents of neither place will sense the skilled flurry...