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Jun
4
Jun
The Beguiling specialty bookstore is proud to present two great graphic novel events this June, appealing to the vast breadth of graphic novel aficionados in the city of Toronto! The first event features acclaimed Norwegian cartoonist JASON–currently serializing his newest work in The New York Times Magazine–as he comes to Toronto to launch his new [...]
4
Apr
NEW YORK� It takes just seconds to leave behind this muted Harlem side street and enter the parlor of Maya Angelou’s brownstone, a step as bright and quick as a black and white film dissolving into Technicolor.
Plump sofas and armchairs in bursts of green and blue and red and yellow form a ring on spotless [...]
3
Feb
SAN FRANCISCO - Cartoonist Gus Arriola, whose long-running “Gordo” was one of the first syndicated comic strips to celebrate Hispanic culture, died Saturday following a lengthy illness, according to his publicist. He was 90.Arriola, who had suffered from Parkinson’s disease for some time, died at home in Carmel with his wife, Mary Frances, by his [...]
3
Feb
SAN FRANCISCO - Cartoonist Gus Arriola, whose long-running “Gordo” was one of the first syndicated comic strips to celebrate Hispanic culture, died Saturday following a lengthy illness, according to his publicist. He was 90.Arriola, who had suffered from Parkinson’s disease for some time, died at home in Carmel with his wife, Mary Frances, by his [...]
25
Jan
As fellow Beirut hostages Tom Sutherland and Terry Anderson sat bound to a wall in near- total darkness year after endless year, they told stories to keep each other alive. Their captors could chain their bodies, but they could not chain their minds.
Anderson, the Associated Press war correspondent, helped Sutherland picture how a [...]
16
Jan
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The Smurfs — led by Papa Smurf and Smurfette — kicked off a year of 50th-birthday celebrations Monday with Smurfberry cake and sarsaparilla juice. The late cartoonist Pierre Culliford — best known by his pen name, Peyo — introduced the tiny blue figures in a comic strip in [...]
15
Jan
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The Smurfs - led by Papa Smurf and Smurfette - kicked off a year of 50th birthday celebrations yesterday with Smurfberry cake and sarsaparilla juice.
The late cartoonist Pierre Culliford - best known by his pen name, “Peyo” - introduced the tiny blue figures in a comic strip in October 1958. He called [...]
15
Jan
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The Smurfs — led by Papa Smurf and Smurfette — kicked off a year of 50th birthday celebrations Monday with Smurfberry cake and sasparilla juice.
The late cartoonist Pierre Culliford– best known by his pen name, “Peyo” — first introduced the tiny blue figures in a comic strip in October 1958. He called [...]
10
Jan
Is John Updike playing a trick on us? Or on himself? The esteemed big man of letters catapulted out of smalltown life via Harvard and then moved to Manhattan, where he became the literary darling of The New Yorker magazine crowd, which still publishes his work.
Updike often seems to be pretending, his writing more [...]