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...Latin American cultures continue their slow creep into the American mainstream, it should come as no surprise that comics have begun to reflect that change. But where lesser comix have settled for throwing a token Latino into the story, La Perdida ($20; 275 pages), Jessica Abel's intense new graphic novel from Pantheon, goes deeper. In fact, it goes "native." Featuring a story about an idealistic American living in Mexico and written in Spanglish dialogue, La Perdida examines what is increasingly becoming a major cultural shift in the U.S. by looking at it from the other side. Like a mirror...
...features loquacious urban hipsters. (Also a tireless supporter of the medium, she was one of the organizers of a short-lived series of slide-show comix "happenings" in 2001.) Her first novel-length work, La Perdida has an unusual style for comix: Unlike most of her fellow North American graphic novelists, Abel doesn't use humor, irony or traditional comic book genres. Instead, she has created something all too rare in the medium: a realistic drama for adults told in a straightforward manner. The approach makes sense for a book which spends so much time exploring the nature of authenticity...
...edge of today's controversy over the purity of English. La Perdida includes a glossary for all the Spanish at the end, except strangely, a translation of the title. My crude Google-based research roughly translates it as "The Lost One." For a smart, involved and serious graphic novel read, La Perdida should be found...
AFTER LAST SEASON'S Technicolor floral prints, something more graphic is back in style for spring. Blame it on the Edie Sedgwick revival or designers' sudden interest in movies from the 1960s, like Belle de Jour, but bold black-and-white patterns are turning up on everything from Williams-Sonoma Home's Chinoiserie dessert plates to Nicolas Ghesquière's sought-after sandals. Even Fendi's hot new B bag is a must-have in white canvas with black patent-leather trim...
...graphic about Jamestown, the first English settlement in America...