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Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths

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Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
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BY LEONARD RIFAS Some of the most-circulated Japanese words in American popular culture have been linked to military suicide: hara-kiri, kamikaze pilots and banzai charges. Shigeru Mizuki’s “Onwards Towards Our Noble Deaths” tells a “90 percent fact” story about how his buddies died in World War II suicide attacks. (The cartoonist survived because at the [...]

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Scenes from an Impending Marriage

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Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
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BY JADA LEE The guy drops down on one knee, pops the question, and plants the ring on her finger – what happens next? Does he really know what he is in for? In “Scenes from an Impending Marriage,” Adrian Tomine takes a witty approach in illustrating the days leading to his wedding with his [...]

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Lost and Found

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Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
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There was a time in the 1980s/90s when tape recording was available on the cheap to consumers. Anyone with a tape deck would have the power to record mixed-tapes. You’d be able to record from the radio or other professionally recorded tapes or vinyl records. A certain type of sonic craft came about from this [...]

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