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...Guilty” is not an autobiographical work, it feels as though the events that unfold in this book could have happened, even if they never actually did. While this makes for a story where less happens, it gives the work a subtle, textural quality of wordless image and emotion that slows the narrative, forcing the reader to recognize the humanity of the characters...
Most of Huizenga's stories involve Glenn Ganges, a blank-looking suburbanite in the 18 to 35 year-old range with two dots for eyes and a preference for three-quarter length baseball T-shirts, sans logo. Page one of the first issue introduces him to us in a wordless six-panel tableau of Glenn doing household chores. Less imaginative comix would use the sequence to set up Ganges as a straw man for obvious jabs at the middle class lifestyle, but Huizenga invests something more into his character, whose name, after all, evokes mystical rivers of the East...
...lesson in what lasts in kids comics, you can do no better than Little Lulu. Created by Marjorie Henderson Buelle, who signed her work as "Marge," Lulu started in 1935 as a series of wordless gag panels in the "Saturday Evening Post." By the mid-1940s Lulu had expanded into animated cartoons and been licensed as the mascot for Kleenex tissues (which she remained associated with for 15 years). Dell comics created a series around the character in 1945, which continued until 1984. Of those, the first 197 issues (till 1970) were written and laid out by John Stanley...
...Seadrum,” a 23:03 masterpiece, begins sounding like nothing else in the entirety of the Boredom’s formidable oeuvre of music—the first minute or so of the song consists of Yoshimi’s lone voice beautifully singing a wordless jazz riff. Her sustained final note fades into a rising tide of chimes and deep tribal drums that steadily pound away as metallic and organic percussive noise sounds throb in the background and spiral back and forth between the stereo channels. It seems strange to describe a 23 minute experimental-acoustic track...
...political comix have always been the standouts. As far back as the late 1940s, EC comics included themes of racial inequities and the hypocrisies of war in such books as "Shock Suspenstories" and "Frontline Combat." Kuper's work continues the tradition with two new books - one a wordless allegory of governmental madness, and the other an adaptation of a key social realist novel...