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...Judy Tuvim, later the Broadway and movie marvel Judy Holliday.) "Wonderful Town," set in 1935, has many echoes of the team's early days: one scene, "One Hundred Easy Ways (To Lose a Man)," is based on an old Revuers sketch; another set in a nightclub called the Village Vortex, a reference to the Village Vanguard where the Revuers first attracted notice. The score also bursts with the spirit and confidence that must have gone into its speedy creation - as if the trio were saying, Okay, let's write a Village scene-setter, now we'll do a showstopper...
Vera abruptly sweeps Jack off to the drunken vortex of the Manhattan art world. Jack in turn persuades her to follow him south, first to Havana, then to squalid Port Mungo, on the coast of Honduras. Shabby sex and heavy drinking become the leitmotivs of their lives. Their elder daughter Peg grows up wild and uncombed...
...This is the even more delimitative version of the book. I didn't want to put that as the subtitle of the second edition. Vortex [the original publisher] did it for marketing reasons. There will be yet another ending to the book along with some editing to the work and a few redrawn panels. Just trying to improve it overall. It will probably have a different title this time around. One of the reasons why it should be re-released is because it has been optioned to be made into a film, although that goes back ten years...
...interim. I went for a year, and then quit and went back down to New York and was rejected again, although again encouragingly so. But that was around the time I was losing interest in superhero comics anyway. I started self-publishing mini-comix in 1983. Then, in 1986 Vortex comics approached me to start publishing "Yummy Fur." I quit the day job I had at that point, working in a photo reproduction place. In 1988, the black and white boom was over so I got a part-time job that I had for a year. Since then...
...Iraqi society had disintegrated into a vortex of terror, corruption and fear...It was only capable of rape, pillage and the worst kinds of fraud,” he said...