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...papers anymore. Although profound and absurdist cartoons are as old as Thomas Nast's Tamnammy Hall caricatures and the 1920's "Krazy Kat," the cartoonist's art exploded into a vast panopoly of styles in the 1980s. The New Comics Anthology, edited by Bob Callahan, provides the neophyte comics reader with a diverse representation of the most skilled cartoonists of the post-modern...
These cartoonists may skimp on elegance at times, but in doing so they reach down one's thoat and throttle one's guts. The expressive work in these cartoons leaves the reader breathless: breathless with laughter, with horror, with pain and with amazement. Some of them will deserve a place in the comics pantheon with the cartoons of Walt "Pogo" Kelly, one of the greatest stylists of all comic history...
Southerners did their best to keep the Old South alive after the Confederate defeat, but they were not nearly as successful as Ripley would have the reader believe. Except for an occasional economic upheaval, the war appears not to have ravaged the lives and souls of Ripley's characters...
...takes the reader only a few pages to realize that Ripley has had to / forfeit the novelist's right to create her own characters. Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara sprang from everything Mitchell knew and felt about a time that was still fresh in her region's memory. Ripley's self-imposed handicap shows in the dialogue. Mitchell gave her sardonic hero the best lines, hard- bitten and vivid in the Raymond Chandler style. "I've seen eyes like yours above a dueling pistol," he says to Scarlett. "They evoke no ardor in the male breast." Ripley's Rhett...
What is significantly new about New Joy is a foreword: "The Implications of AIDS" (which "totally alters the sexual landscape") and a revised, thoroughgoing chapter on health, which the reader ought to study and absorb before moving on to the rest of the text. In blunt fashion, Comfort describes the ways in which people can become infected with AIDS and discusses methods of avoidance (none of which are without their dangers). Comfort's keynote: / "If your newly found love won't use a condom, you are in bed with a witless, irresponsible and uncaring person...