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...curator, with the help of Brian Walker, founder of another MOCA, the Museum of Cartoon Art, and son of Mort Walker, the creator of Beetle Bailey and Hi and Lois. Carlin and Walker focused on 15 artists, from the early 20th century to today, who both devised their own visual-narrative languages and did so with distinctive graphic grace and power...
...Whatever they were they were tall, but not too tall - space limitations, you see; they were dark...; they were handsome - well, symbolically handsome. The world of comics was a form of visual shorthand, so that the average hero need not have been handsome in fact, so long as his face was held to the required arrangement of lines that readers had been taught to be the accepted sign of handsome: sharp, slanting eyebrows, thick at the ends, thinning out toward the nose, of which in three-quarter view there was hardly any - just a small V placed slightly above...
...handsome collection called The Spirit Archives, now up to its 22nd volume - is to see Eisner shift within genres and tones. One week's story might be a melodrama, the next a comedy, the third a parable. But beyond the variety of stories was a striking visual consistency: the tone was bold, dark and mature - a grownup vision, compared to the adolescent world-view of the standard superhero strip. To quote Feiffer: "Will Eisner was an early master of the German expressionist approach in comic books - the Fritz Lang school. ?Muss 'Em Up' was full of dark shadows, creepy angle...
...against machine, muscle against metal. For this, the Adelaide-based choreographer has worked with Montreal "roboticist" Louis-Philippe Demers to engineer a fleet of moving machines that interact with ADT's 10 dancers on stage. By the end, performers don computer-programmed prosthetics in a dystopian dance with a visual style reminiscent of Mad Max. At a time when contemporary choreography so often underwhelms, Devolution has the wow factor, even if its message about life in a computerized age is darker and more ambiguous...
...road called “Stadium Way” that would connect the area’s two major thoroughfares, Western Avenue and North Harvard Street. Near a “quiet [and] attractive,” residential area, “these projects would bring noise, air, and visual pollution to this special neighborhood,” claimed a flyer distributed by the Allston-Brighton Community Planning Initiative. Harvard officials said repeatedly that the January master plan is not the finalized vision for the campus in Allston. They assured local residents that they intend to revise the plans...