Lacey shares a horrible moment when she learned that the best supervisor she ever had thought the idea of sending laptops to children in Africa was hilarious. In an excerpt from You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey, they turn their attention to racism in the workplace. Sisters Amber Ruffin ( The Amber Ruffin Show) and Lacey Lamar mine their experiences with racism for humor in this book of essays. If I were a teacher, I would sit my happy ass down, knowing I look FOINE!) (Note: This choice was made because I am on-camera. I chose to become a less visible target in order to shine. I realized if I wanted to do what I loved - perform and make people laugh - I needed to lose some weight. When people shame you for your size, they succeed in reducing you to the smallest version of yourself emotionally. She knew what I didn’t yet know, which was that the world is cruel to overweight people. She didn’t want me to be sitting in the moment I was currently in. As a self-loathing woman, she could only act on her urge to love and shelter me by being cruel about my perceived vulnerabilities, which were actually her vulnerabilities. It occurs to me now that Barbara had been trying to protect me from the world that had been so cruel to her. SSĬasey Wilson is now known as a hilarious actress ( Happy Endings, The Shrink Next Door) and podcaster ( Bitch Sesh), but before she was starring in Apple TV+ originals, she supported herself by working as the personal assistant to a “very thin, manic, reflexive documentary filmmaker.” Wilson details this oddball time in her life, and what she learned from her former boss’s obsession with her weight, in an excerpt from her new book of essays: Snag it while you can, or you could always try checking out your local comic book store. But right now, Amazon has the complete Fraction-and-Aja run, along with a few extras, in a neat book called Hawkeye: The Saga of Barton and Bishop. No joke, I checked online for this run a few months ago to find it priced at around $300. Plus, this is the first time in a while that the physical copy of Fraction and Aja’s Hawkeye is being re-released. It’s an engaging and hilarious read, and I’d be remiss not to tell you that one issue is completely told from Lucky the Pizza Dog’s perspective.
And why wouldn’t it be, when Fraction and Aja’s brilliant series is lauded as one of the best modern comic runs by fans? While many superhero comics explore cosmic worlds and life-ending wars, Hawkeye: My Life As a Weapon brings readers down to the street-level problems of Barton and Bishop - a couple of messy heroes whose main powers are their archery skills and wit. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has always had the Marvel comics at its disposal, but the latest MCU/Disney+ series, Hawkeye, is shaping up to be a significant adaptation of writer Matt Fraction and artist David Aja’s 2012 to 2015 Hawkeye comic run, the first comics to pair Clint Barton with Kate Bishop. His drawings are two-dimensional panic rooms where he pieces things together without fixity.” -Jesse David Fox Cézanne’s drawings record the split second before we make sense of, organize, identify, and define what we see - before we make metaphor, analogy, and meaning, when we are just seeing.
It’s an invigorating process.īack to Saltz: “Cézanne doesn’t so much look at and render things in the world as aspirate them, atomize and liquify atmosphere, light, and form. Many pages show the initial sketches, scribbles, simple paintings along with their corresponding masterpiece, allowing you to picture the thought process of the turn of the 20th century genius. Upon seeing the Museum of Modern Art exhibition of 280 Paul Cézanne works on paper, Senior Art Critic Jerry Saltz wrote the show “demonstrates that this immensely influential artist took us to the furthest shores of seeing in his drawings and watercolors.” Cézanne: Drawing allows you to take the incredible collection of images home to both further marvel at and consider.