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Jimmy Corrigan requires a similar intensity from the reader. Ware's work is languorous but dense, interspersed with tiny print and pictures that force one to crane over it, literally trying to enter the book. Many of the spreads, including the fold-open dust jacket, are crazy quilts, stitched with dotted lines and arrows, as if the very seams were straining to contain the story. "You have to keep turning the book," says New Yorker cartoonist Art Spiegelman, who first nationally published Ware in Raw magazine. "It's a dizzy-making, Oz-like tornado that takes you out of Kansas...
...reader can predict what that joke will be, I will be delighted to present it to this column's audience, with all due credit and appropriate rimshots...
...EASY READER Speaking of obsolete formats, last week Microsoft offered up further competition to the old-fashioned paper book with a new version of its Microsoft Reader software for the PC. Microsoft Reader is a free e-book program; it displays downloadable digital books using special technology that makes the letters easy on the eyes and lets you bookmark and annotate as you go. Barnesandnoble.com is backing the release with 100 free "classic" (read: uncopyrighted) electronic books, including Jane Eyre and Candide. But why read a book on a computer? Paper is still the killer app for reading...
...being offered one final moment of the "freedom" to be a consumer. Their choices, as diverse, poignant and sometimes just plain wacky as they are, offer clues to their identities and character. But perhaps that fascination is simply a kind of "desert island discs" game that calls on the reader to consider his or her own menu for a final meal. But even more fascinating than the contents of the site, perhaps, is the decision by the folks down at Huntsville to post this information...
...Hearst, Winston Churchill wrote, "I got to like him--a grave simple child...playing with the most expensive toys." Others found little to like or admire about the man. But Nasaw tells his story with such nuance and understanding that the reader never fully loses sympathy, even when the Chief was paying Hitler and Mussolini to write for his papers, and Hearst and his columnists were smearing innocent people...