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By Matt Haber 5/15/08 6:04pm

Illustrator and Prankster Will Elder Dies at 86

Journalista: The Comics Journal Weblog is reporting that Will Elder, the famed illustrator and one of the founders of Mad Magazine, has died at 86. (This comes via boing boing.) Elder was considered a major influence on artists like Robert Crumb and Daniel Clowes.

Gary Groth, an editor at Fantagraphics, which published Read More

By Ralph Gardner Jr. 5/09/05 12:00am

The Writing’s on the Wall-High-School Punks Did It

Handwriting analysis has often been used to link criminals to major crimes. Less common is employing the peculiarities of an individual’s penmanship to link them to graffiti vandalism, as was the case on April 13. The offending scrawl was spotted by a 14-year-old student on a wall of his school, Life Sciences Secondary at 320 Read More

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