Word: zigs
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...moved the action to Weimar Berlin. Filled with grotesque faces and crippled veterans, Mattotti evokes the world depicted by such "degenerate" German artists as George Grosz and Otto Dix. Other scenes take on the fractured look of Braque and Picasso's cubist work. His lines curve and twist, zig and zag, constantly delighting the eye but never losing form. Using an ochre-colored brush for the outlines and masterful shading with colored pencils Mattotti has created one the most richly, almost garishly, colored comix I have ever seen. In a manner that belongs exclusively to comix, Mattotti and Kramsky have...
...order to write the script, the authors zig-zagged across the country for collaborative sessions...
...steps leading to the summit zig, zag, and turn in spirals, passing meditation cells, shrines and small shops selling everything from tourist trinkets to fragrant thanakha logs?from which Burmese women grind their traditional face powder. Monkeys cavort along the path?cute from a distance but downright terrifying when they bare their teeth and hiss. Be warned: while eating pork or cursing may offend the nats, a bag of cookies in your back pocket is a sure invitation to an attack by monkeys...
...fallout from such mixed messages - and from potential headlines of widespread school failure - is not lost on the White House and its chief negotiator on the education bills, Dallas lawyer Sandy Kress. "We need to find a system where it's not statistical noise or zig-zags in performance that drives classification," he says. Kress and his Congressional counterparts have feverishly been devising just such a system that, he suggests, might end up looking something like the Texas testing model that Bush campaigned on, which set much more modest goals for students. "We need...
...little scratchy and lacking in polish, he has a nice sense of design. He mixes up his layouts and keeps the experience of reading always stimulating even if the events being depicted are simple. One page will be a big panel with three small insets, followed by a zig-zag of panels down the page, followed by all verticals. You could look at this book from across the room and enjoy it. Galambos teaches art in Rochester, New York, but by all rights he should be making a living at comix instead...