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Marc Vitali: These are not the images of Chicago you’d see in a visitor’s guide. Still, the odd corners the paintings depict are as much a part of the city as Navy Pier or the Museum campus. Artist Andy Paczos pedals a bike that hauls his canvas and supplies. He heads to the same location he’s worked at for months – a corner of the Van Buren Street bridge near Wacker Drive. He sets up his easel. And gets to work on a highly detailed painting.    A painting of a fork in the Chicago river by Andy Paczos. (Photo by Dimitre Photography, Chicago)

Le Festival international de la bande dessinée consacre l’auteur américain de « Jimmy Corrigan » et de « Building Stories ».

Rusty Brown By Chris Ware. Jonathan Cape/Penguin Random House, £25, $35 If the concept of ‘designer and illustrator as author’ is worthy of close attention outside children’s books still a compelling issue, few have a claim as strong as that of Chris Ware. His carefully drawn and extended fictions (such as Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories) chronicle the anxieties of American life with degrees of excruciating internal self-examination and forensic external details equalled by few other authors, literary or otherwise. By concentrating on a smal...

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Dan Frank, adventurous book editor, dies at 67 Mr. Frank collaborated with Joseph Mitchell on what became a critically celebrated best seller in 1992. by Alex Traub (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Dan Frank, who as editorial director of Pantheon Books discerned in journalism and comics the potential for enduring books and introduced authors like Joseph Mitchell to tens of thousands of readers, died on May 24 in Manhattan. He was 67. His death, at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, was caused by cancer, his wife, Patricia Lowy, said. Running Pantheon from 1996 until last year, Frank edited books that earned...