Not all illustrators agree on what to call graphic novels or when the first one appeared, but most agree that the man who brought them into the mainstream was Will Eisner.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy has written another incendiary book: "Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal."
Nathan Radke talks about why the characters from the “Peanuts” comic strip can be seen as acting out the dilemmas of existentialism.
Morgan Spurlock is the director of the documentary film “Super Size Me.” He tells Jim Fleming about his experience of eating only at McDonald’s for a month.
Rich Cohen tells Jim Fleming about his charismatic friend Drew, and their forays into a more complex and sophisticated world.
Kathleen Dean Moore is a philosopher at Oregon State University, but her passion is an inhospitable island off the coast of Alaska. On Pine Island you can expect rain, fog, desolation, and a world of beauty that comes from the reality of natural surroundings.
Nicole Smith pilots an Army Apache AH 64 attack helicopter. She is the only African American female to do so.
Rick Lyman's book “Watching Movies: The Biggest Names in Cinema Talk about the Films that Matter Most” tells of time spent with Woody Allen, Sissy Spacek, Ang Lee and others, watching other peoples’ films.
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