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...documented the atrocities of Bosnia, Somalia and Rwanda in a hyper-real mix of painting, drawing and diary-making. A typical Gittoes canvas, with its Goya-like grotesqueries, can make Picasso's Guernica look like a picnic. But on arriving in Iraq in 2003, the artist felt a new medium was required to capture the surreality of what he was experiencing. Meeting Baghdad's gangsta rap?spouting U.S. Marines, Gittoes was inspired to shoot the musical documentary Soundtrack to War (2004), in which mainly black soldiers sing straight to camera over the sound of rifle fire. Some...
...preparing her own data that showed enrollment over the past four years for the towns and cities in metropolitan Boston. To refute the charge that Cambridge is losing school-age children because families are moving out to escape astronomical housing prices, Nolan grouped the cities and towns into low, medium, and high housing-priced districts. According to her data, the high-priced districts gained enrollment, the medium-priced ones broke even, and the low-priced districts lost enrollment. The data also showed that over the past three years, Cambridge has lost a greater percentage of students than any other town...
While the reputation of traditional memoir publishing recovers from the scandal of partly or wholly fabricated tales of self-inflicted horror, two new graphical memoirs put such phony sensationalism to shame. Notably, both are by women, whose childhood stories have become increasingly visible in this medium thanks to the popularity of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, a two-volume remembrance of growing up in post-revolution Iran. We Are On Our Own by Miriam Katin recalls the author's early childhood living secretly as a Jew in Nazi-occupied Hungary. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, by Alison Bechdel takes place...
...most memorable portraits of any character yet seen in this medium, Bechdel paints her father as a classic "closet case." An obsessive home decorator and control freak, he challenges any gender non-conformity he discovers in his children, for example making the young Alison, whose playground nickname is "butch," wear a barrette when she doesn't want to. He also runs the family business, a funeral home, which gives the book its snarky double-entendre title. Far from fun, thanks chiefly to the father's quashing of all affections lest the "bad" one be exposed, Bechdel compares her home life...
...story of a wealthy man married to a beautiful woman; the man dies and is reincarnated in the body of a laborer, only to find that all the people in his former life are phonies. The supernatural twist, Richard says, will appeal to viewers hooked on shows like Medium...