As you know, Lynn Johnston is closing up shop (sorta) this week, putting an end to the Patterson saga in her daily strip For Better or For Worse, though she will be going back in time to redraw older strips and occasionally add new dialogue and such. The Washington Post has an interview with her about her semi-retirement:
What the reflective Johnston, 60, realized was that after decades of her identity and creativity and livelihood being linked to a comic strip, she wasn’t ready to give it up.
“It’s in your blood — it’s part of your life. I don’t want to quit being a cartoonist,” Johnston says by phone from her Toronto studio. “It’s tough to put it down — you still think of gags. And at the same time, I knew I’d be looking at material that I’d want to improve.”
Lest you think it’s all kisses and hugs, the Washington Post also ran this editorial , entitled “Something for Ev...
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With hundreds of trails to choose from Washington state is a hiking paradise. There are beach hikes, desert hikes and excellent mountain hiking trails to please all. On the east side of the state over the Cascade Mountain range the weather is drier and hot in the summer. The western portion of Washington is much wetter and it rains often. The best months for hiking in Washington state is July, August and September.
With three National parks offering plenty of camping and hiking, you c... more
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By Prof. Rodrigue Tremblay
Global Research , September 28, 2008
“When troubles come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” Shakespeare (1564-1616)
“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism — ownership of governm... more
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) — U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill will visit the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) later this week, the State Department confirmed Monday.
Hill is due to arrive in Seoul, South Korea Tuesday. “Later in the week, he’ll visit Pyongyang, before going to Beijing, where he’ll meet with the Chinese vice foreign minister, Wu Dawei,” State Department deputy spokesman Robert Wood told a... more
… or, to put it another way: Civil War creators download American Born Chinese while watching Heroes, New York Times reports
To wrap up anniversary week, I enlisted Chris Mautner to help me recap some of the bigger news topics we’ve covered here at Blog@Newsarama over the past year. So let’s take a look back at some of the stuff we covered in the past 52 weeks …
Red-headed stepchild no more
Comics finally come into their own
–Chris Mautner
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Because I didn’t join the team until a while after they moved to this site, I don’t have any “Just Past the Horizon” from one year ago. However, last year about this time was a busy period for Melissa and I at When Fangirls Attack . I would say that last Spring was the time the “Feminist Comics Blogosphere” was fully realized as a community in its own right.
Its really all Mr. Larsen’s fault. Starting with his assertation that the appeal of P... more
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So this week, we found out that Lois Lane and abortion were once discussed in a very strange sense. And as much as I’d love to link to esoteric Grant Morrison hero worship (his writing just seems to attract this kind of praise), these are the quotes I chose to reflect the past week.
“You know, because you can compare a corporate franchise like Superman, a creator-owned property like Jesse Custer whose influence is limited to Preacher, and motherfucking ... more
R.I.P. Chef From: blog.newsarama.com Post Date: 2008-08-10 14:46:07
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