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13.8.04
The Cultural Gutter : Return of the Trigan Empire & The Object Is
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by Guy Leshinski
Return of the Trigan Empire
"When Don Lawrence died last December at age 75, a chorus of artists and writers emerged from the wings to pay homage. Neil Gaiman posted an encomium on his weblog that began, "When I was a boy, Don painted a comic I loved. It was called The Trigan Empire...." The Guardiancalled Lawrence "an exemplar" of British comics, "acclaimed across Europe." Acclaimed everywhere, that is, except his native England (and the rest of the English-speaking world), which paid him as much attention as a shitting pigeon does a windshield. Lawrence was a superstar on the Continent -- knighted, even, by Holland's Queen Beatrix -- and, for the bulk of his career, a nobody at home.">>

The Object Is
"McSweeney's is the New York imprint, founded by one-time cartoonist Dave Eggers, that has become the knowing voice of young, urban sophisticates. In the publisher's tradition of exposing nascent literary movements, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #13 (US$23) is an all-comix issue, though in place of McS's standard irreverence is an awe of the comics form that borders on the unseemly.">>

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