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...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...
...ironing and fixes small appliances. (Can we hire him as our house-sitter?) On one of his forays he meets a lovely woman (Lee Seung-yun), the abused wife of a golf-mad businessman. A fable of seduction and soul-mating, violence and revenge, plays out in this nearly wordless film that offers a modern gloss on an Asian ghost story...
...horror comedy "Black Hole." Other superstars have brand new work. Robert Crumb, the underground pooh-bah, provides one of his patented war-of-the-sexes pieces, "The Unbearable Tediousness of Being," where a dull nebbish attempts to woo a distracted, hard-nippled Amazon-like woman. Further on appears the wordless examination of man's attempts at ordering nature, "ctrl," by Richard McGuire, an artist who virtually disappeared after creating "Here," a singular, diamond-like piece of brilliance almost fifteen years ago. The funniest piece belongs to Joe Matt, who's autobiographical "Toronto, Ontario. Canada" details his obsessive onanism and general...