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Masks and the Modern Family.
Masks and the Modern Family.
This week’s cover to the New Yorker (Nov. 2, 2009), entitled “Unmasked,” by the Chicago cartoonist Chris Ware, shows an artist at the absolute height of his powers. The scene is familiar: a group of adults hang back while their children trick-or-treat at two-story homes in the October ...
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Comics Comics — ... provocative and original. 4. Naoki Urasawa talks process. [via] 5. A too-rare interview with Peter Blegvad appears in the new Believer. [via] 6. Almost every post Jog writes these days is worth linking to, but since everyone already reads him anyway, what's the point? That said, this review of J.H. Williams III and Detective Comics is unusually well-wrought, even for him. 7. And here is an insightful appreciation of last week's Chris Ware New Yorker work. Click on it; it's not boring. ...

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