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...indie hits Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, to her brother Roman Coppola, who directed CQ--it would have been weird if she had become an accountant or a cardiologist. But it's almost as surprising that Coppola became not just a director but one with a poignantly romantic visual style so distinctively...
Glow Girl, a hip boutique in Mill Valley, Calif., gives prospective customers clear visual clues as to the nature of its business: the mannequins in the window have protruding bellies, and painted on the glass is the word MATERNITY underneath a silhouette of a woman with a bump. But that doesn't stop some unsuspecting--and not-expecting--women from entering Angela Mavridis' year-old store, lured by familiar brand-name fashion and accessories...
...America finally took notice. The graphic-novel business is reportedly worth about $100 million a year, but it still has no honor in the country that invented it. Yet some of the most interesting, most daring, most heartbreaking art being created right now, of both the verbal and the visual varieties, is being published in graphic novels. These books take on memory, alienation, film noir, child abuse, life in postrevolutionary Iran and, of course, love, and they hit all the harder because we don't expect wisdom and truth from characters who talk in speech bubbles. So go ahead. Read...
...past is like saying the Queen of England lives in a house. Ware turns the past into a palace. In 2000's Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Ware ransacks the history of cartooning, borrowing from 19th century lithography, superhero comics and Sunday funnies to create a visual language in which panels twist across the page like a drunken conga line...
...invention that kept running through his head: Einst werd ich liegen im Nirgend, bei einem Engel irgend, a rhyming play on words which roughly translates as, "One of these days I shall lie in nothingness, beside an angel of some kind." Indeed, there is so much visual wordplay going on in Klee's pictorial poetry that the show almost demands a detective-like second tour. Can you discover the hidden word TOD (death) in Death and Fire? Or decode the mysteries of three of the works left untitled in the artist's studio when he died? In the corner...