![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One example, a longer-than-average instalment charting the sad-to-happy life arc of a minor fictional character from a 1986 Janet Jackson video, hints at the earned freedom of a writer/artist who doesn’t need to get her work past an editor. While the new book may not differ radically from the first, there are signs of an artist allowing herself a greater rein. You’re never cruel to them, but you rip them all the same.” To me, what I do is more like picking on one of your best friends. Generally, though, I don’t really care for mean humour. “Yet sometimes I’ll make a comic about somebody who is a total reprobate, so the word in a case like that is not so much affection as interest. Looking for a common thread is probably a game for fools, but still, a grace-note of sympathy often shines through, which leads to a question: in choosing whom she’s going to skewer with her satire, does Beaton need to start from a seed of affection? Ranging from Chopin to the Brontës to Alexander Graham Bell by way of Spider-Man, Wonder Woman and the must-be-seen-to-be-believed Strong Female Characters, the sequel’s subjects are treated in Beaton’s customarily irreverent, iconoclastic and sometimes riotously profane manner one of her best tools is placing modern pop-speak in the mouths of decidedly non-modern figures. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]()
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