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20th October 2006

Comic Art Magazine

“Comic Art is the only beautifully produced, full-color art magazine focusing on the comic medium. The material covered is wide-ranging: newspaper strip, magazine panel, and comic book art, both historical and contemporary, and we consistently feature the most well-respected writers from both within and outside the field. Comic Art emphasizes outstanding print quality and lush production values: illustrations are shot directly–and in color–from both original art and obscure, rarely reproduced printed material.”

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20th October 2006

Voting for the future

“Juan Enriquez had a nice idea for rebalancing the priorities in the voting booth: proxy votes for parents of children under 18. That is, if my wife and I have two kids, the family gets four votes, not two. Juan’s rationale for this plan is that the voting public is currently made up of a lot of baby boomers, who are going to begin to vote for things that benefit their age group…”

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