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...hear America singing, the varied carols I hear; Those of mechanics--each one singing his, as it should be, blithe and strong ... --Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass...
...Walt & Skeezix by Frank King (Drawn & Quarterly...
...Finally exposing the work of a nearly forgotten master cartoonist, Walt & Skeezix reprints the first two years of Frank King's deeply American comic strip "Gasoline Alley" in the debut of what will (hopefully) be an annual reprint series for the next twenty years or so. Famous for characters who age in real time, like Walt, the dedicated bachelor and his adopted son Skeezix, the strip amounts to a daily diary of an American family as it goes through the depression, WWII, the post-war boom and beyond. This first volume features many car gags, but they soon give...
...college professor and one-time promising novelist who is stewing in the rancor of midlife mediocrity. His wife Joan (Laura Linney) has emerged from his shadow to land a novel with a prestigious publisher, and is celebrating by having an affair with the family?s tennis pro. Elder son Walt (Jesse Eisenberg) is burrowing into his teenage misery like a creature out of Dostoyefsky - or, perhaps, one of his father?s novels. As for 12-year-old Frank (Owen Kline), puberty has landed on him like a house after a tornado, and he?s obsessed with spilling his seed...
...inputting the numbers. And the last shot we see is Michael typing into the computer to a mysterious being at the other end. The last text shown on the screen is “Dad?” Does this mean it’s the triumphant return of Walt? Knowing this show, probably not. Quit phunking with my heart, “Lost!”—Jessica C. CogginsThe OCFOX Thursdays, 8p.m.In last week’s episode, academics were discussed for the first time in three seasons. Say what?! Yeah…that?...