Word: penciled
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...Grill Debater: This species of dining hall delayer is marked by his absolute inability to choose what items to order from the grill. He’ll often pick up the little pad of menu selections and the pencil, and then stand blocking the entire counter while he muses over the relative benefits of a cheeseburger or a tofu burger (go with the cheeseburger) or takes more than two seconds to mark which food he wants. An even more rare and destructive variant of the Grill Debater is Grillus Debatus Mistakus, who has the audacity to go back and correct...
...Simmonds' keen characterization comes from both her clever writing and exceptional drawing skills. Using what looks like a soft pencil and gray wash, she creates naturalistic drawings that camouflage what are actually carefully composed arrangements of gesture, posture and facial affect. One remarkable panel shows a Christmas dinner party at which Gemma and Charlie are seated. The hostess looms to the left, while a man scolds a child at the right, with all the other characters carefully positioned in the space to display a different state of mind. In a brilliantly satiric take on selfish love, Simmonds uses a thought...
...intangible concepts became the driving force behind the book's creation. This dedication keeps it from becoming a maudlin disease-of-the-week experience. "I really wanted to work out the drawings. How can I draw and epileptic attack, for example. Is it possible to draw that with a pencil and a piece of paper?" His solution to that particular challenge is to depict his brother in coils of a fantastical snake, twisting him in knots. Beauchard's cartoon world is inhabited as much by monsters, phantoms and animated objects as by "real" characters. He manages to combine into most...
...which uses a beam of light to tell you when something's exactly horizontal or vertical, is the season's hottest new gadget for the toolbox. These high-tech levels are useful for hanging pictures, putting up shelves or hanging wallpaper without having to mark up your walls with pencil lines, which are necessary with old-fashioned manual levels. But beware: some models stick to the wall with tape or pins that leave holes or marks that are just as annoying to cover up as pencil. Look for levels that mount with a suction cup, like the Ryobi AIRgrip Laser...
...Readers should be warned, however, that the initial print run suffers from a shockingly sub-par print job. Printed with purple ink on off-white paper, artists who use softer mediums like pencil have had their details either not come through or else had their subtle shades turned into uniform, mushy blobs. The publisher assures me that a second, superior print will arrive in January but copies of the first have already arrived in chain stores (including Amazon) and will not be replaced. You are advised to wait a while before seeking the book out and to avoid getting...