So in part the strip deals effectively with race because it worked to erase race. But that work, obviously, involved seeing race in the first place; making your black character a computer genius is a decision that has meaning. And the joke in this strip, too, requires seeing race, and a...
Here’s a pretty solid clue that this was one of the race team vehicles: those old-school and oh-so-cool stickers from other in-period providers of race-related equipment or services, the kind of emblems that could only come from one period and are near impossible to re-create with the...
I’ve seen this in real life. During the early stages of the Minnesota anime convention known as Anime Detour, we had a staff member (concom for you old-school SF types) who was a Korean orphan adopted by some Wisconsin folks. One of our other staffers, a generic Minnesota gal, was ...
As a youngster of 19, without benefit of either college or art school, he set out for the big city from Indiana without much more than an air brush acquired in lieu of salary from an itinerant barn painter. He landed a job painting movie posters for a big theater chain (“they were t...
But from the age of 12 he knew that all he wanted to do was work on cars and he would spend hours after school helping out and learning the rudiments of a mechanic’s life. The work ethic that he would display until the end was born from such effort, and as he became progressively...