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...Though it may be brief, In the Shadow of No Towers synthesizes Art Spiegelman's incomparable talents for personal history and comix theory into a timely and unique work of art. Using the medium's past to explore new kinds of expression, the book captures the visual experimentation of the old strips and updates them to modern times. What a treat to see Spiegelman back in his element. Let us hope it doesn?t take another atrocity to keep him going...
...director recently made another kung fu film, House of Flying Daggers, a snazzier showcase for Zhang Ziyi; it opens in December. But Hero is the masterpiece. It employs unparalleled visual splendor to show why men must make war to secure the peace and how warriors may find their true destiny as lovers...
...disturbingly funny profundities of "Amy and Jordon" may not even be the best reason for reading it. Beyer's strip was the most visually inventive since the turn-of-the-century height of newspaper cartoonists like Winsor McCay and Lyonel Feininger. Drawing in a black and white style that could well be classified as Art Brut, it defies any preconceptions of what a comic strip should look like. Beyer stuffs his raw caricatures into the corners of zany layouts, no two of which are alike. And a good thing, too. It would be unreadable otherwise. Even smart strip collections like...
Deaf actress Marlee Matlin stars as an embittered divorce who redefines her notion of reality after learning how quantum physics interacts with molecular biology. The explanations of physics are so visual--and, yes, understandable--that even moviegoers who struggled with high school math are enthralled. "We tried to give it that Friday-night-movie feeling," says William Arntz, one of the film's three creators (he financed its $5 million budget with earnings from his software businesses). "And that's not easy to do with electrons...
...Just as Clowes uses the dramatic cliches of superheroes to twist new meaning out of them, with "The Death Ray" he uses the genre's visual signifiers to achieve a post-modern effect. For example, panels of banal scenes such as Louis and Andy watching TV or shopping obscure the traditional two-page "splash" panel of the Death Ray socking a bad guy. But familiarity with the genre's motifs is not required to enjoy the book. With each new issue of "Eightball" Clowes gets more and more skilled at manipulating the formal elements of comix while keeping the narrative...