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		<title>Before reading Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s gekiga…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Often credited as the creator of the gekiga (dramatic pictures) genre of manga, Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s works are undoubtedly milestones, not just in manga, but in the genre of graphic narratives. While his collected anthologies are acknowledged to be ‘dark’, ‘noir’, and ‘heavy’ by just about every critique, few seem to acknowledge the context in which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Killer &#8211; Matz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of all the different genres out there, ‘Noir’ has been a long time favorite of mine. There’s something about gritty straight writing that I just can’t get enough of. From Miller’s Sin City to Brubaker’s Criminal, I’ve read and re-read them all. Joining that list now is The Killer. The Killer (or ‘Le Tuer’, as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.9thart.com/the-killer-matz/</link>
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		<title>Criminal &#8211; Ed Brubaker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Gotham Central, Brubaker explored the lives of regular cops in Gotham Cityand what it was like living under the shadow of Batman. With the Criminal series, he goes one up. First off, there’s no Batman or any other superhero/vigilante. Second, it’s a story about crime from the criminal’s point of view. According to Brubaker, he wanted to portray [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kashmir Pending &#8211; Naseer Ahmed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the world of Indian comics, one of the things I&#8217;m glad about is that while the output is relatively lower in number than say the US or UK, the quality is not. The issues with which they deal are contemporary and real; be it the double-life of Kari, or the journals of The Barn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kari &#8211; Amruta Patil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kari is the story of its eponymous heroine, who leads a double life. By day, Kari is a writer in an ad agency, and at night, she&#8217;s a boatman. The story begins with a double suicide. Two women jump off their respective roof tops. One, Ruth, is saved by a safety net, while the other, [...]]]></description>
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