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Today Pritchard, 49, stands in front of 500 students in the Martinez Junior High School gymnasium, just east of San Francisco and not far from his home in San Rafael. For nearly 20 years, he has melded his comic gift with his passion for social work and has somehow made a career of it, taking his act to schools from Washington to Ketchikan, Alaska. And never has he been in greater demand than since the school shootings at Columbine. Nowadays, he books appearances and sells videos on the Web at SavingOurSchools.org...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Juvenile Humor | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...other gentle geniuses in the Pixar cave to get stuff done. So with a great push, Toy Story 2 will be ready for its Nov. 24 release. It's nearly completed now, and judging by a sneak peek last week, we'd say it looks like high-comic computer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TS2: Sneak Preview | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...Minnesota, our Emperor started out with no clothes at all. He came to us from a branch of the performing arts in which large men who resemble comic-book characters pretend to fight each other, so when he was inaugurated and did not appoint barflies and dope dealers to office but donned a suit and white shirt and horn-rimmed glasses and managed to sound half-smart about a third of the time, his approval ratings turned three sheets to the wind and have stayed that way ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minnesota: Let Jesse Ventura Be Jesse... | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...reported to have pumped 100 tons in a day; drives a Harley-Davidson; can't do comedy; quips that putting milk in coffee is for "wusses." CONS Occasional flare-ups of arthritis; has had heart surgery; favors Hawaiian shirts; unofficial slogan "Hasta la vista, baby!" now used mostly for comic effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body Politic | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...puerile nostalgia: a comprehensive archive from the pre-Alfred E. Neuman years (1952-56) through 1998. The multimedia element lets you complete all the fold-ins, listen to all the plastic 7-in. (Free Gift!) singles and watch short videos of legendary artists like Mort Drucker at work. The comic strips themselves look a little faded and grainy on a computer monitor, but at least future generations will see what all the snickering was about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CD-ROM: Totally Mad | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

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