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...works, often as a neo-surrealist celebration of the absurd. Edward Ruscha's can of Spam rocketing across a white canvas and Colin Self's Leopard-skin Nuclear Bomber - No. 2 cannot fail to evoke a smile. Conversely, Roy Lichtenstein manages to take the humor out of the comic-book genre, reducing the style to its purely graphic elements...
...illustrate, we'll take the last group--just for the sake of argument, you understand. If I wanted to set about offending Harvard Asians (not that anyone would, mind you), I might draw a comic strip that contained an Asian-American character who happened to go to Harvard. We'll call him, er, "Mr. Wu." And then I might refuse to make this "Mr. Wu" perfect--I'd give him a flaw or two, like pronounced flatulence or a fondness for reading Foucault and Derrida in his spare time...
...disappointed to see Joe Sacco's comic-strip interpretation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as personified in the West Bank town of Hebron [WORLD, March 12]. While I appreciate the artistic and journalistic value of Sacco's piece, I believe that the cartoon medium only serves to make light of the serious circumstances in Israel. No foreign cartoonist can begin to accurately portray the situation. TIME has failed to respect the gravity of the situation. ZACHARY M. BENJAMIN Tampa...
...there were professors for such a thing, they might call this work a "pure comic" - induplicable in any other medium. You must use the visual clues to read the full sequence of events, sending you physically back and forth through the work...
...These issues should be easy and cheap to find in any comic store with a halfway decent back stock. Mile High Comics offers "fair-condition" copies for 50 cents. I do not think they were ever collected in a trade paperback...