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...actually have to say that most of my behavior while on drugs was just gross or embarrassing,” she says, mentioning a particularly graphic passage in More, Now, Again, in which an isolated, drug-addled Wurtzel becomes obsessed with tweezing each hair on her legs and eventually takes to plucking at her skin...
Much of Winters’ graphic work is in the form of exquisitely designed portfolios, each exploring a united theme with significant variations. In the 12-etching “Models for Synthetic Pictures” (1994), which is less objective than his earlier biological drawings, Winters explores geometrical shapes with vivid use of color and relaxed, almost childlike forms. A page of text on Winters’ theory on the components of images describes what element is expressed by each subsequent print. The work maintains the intricacy and complex use of patterning of his early prints, and explores...
After an acclaimed graphic novel, "David Boring" in 2000, and an acclaimed movie, "Ghost World" in 2001, Daniel Clowes has finally put out another issue of the comicbook that both projects first appeared in. Working in his familiar milieu of slightly exaggerated suburban weirdness, "Eightball" #22 (Fantagraphics Books; 36pp.; $5.95) continues Clowes' development as one of the premier comic artists working today...
...Girl Merci, French directors, for reminding audiences that sex, with its negotiations and lies, its beauty and messiness, its graphic, clumsy imagery, is a crucial part of the human drama. The best of a new bunch of dark, sometimes explicit French films about sex is Catherine Breillat's fable of two sisters, 12 and 15, who are rivals and comrades. Breillat juggles coming-of-age comedy with horror-tragedy in a film that lingers in the mind like the memory of a first, fatal affair...
...cheerful pictures and text. But there is substance too. Sagmeister, who once carved words into his body and photographed it for a poster (grisly results on page 190), bravely shows bad work as well as good and annotates it all in his spidery handwriting. This makes it, unlike most graphic-design books, a good read as well...