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Humour, according to Max Eastman, is “the instinct for taking pain playfully”; and he was certainly right about comics. In their early days, the comics were all about funny pain: sadistic pranks, outrageous mishaps, disproportionate reprisals. Head injuries were especially popular, especially when inflicted by a cop. One of the many modern refinements absent from old comics was our attitude towards police brutality. Police are always brutal, and the thud of nightstick against skull provides not just the soundtrack but the punchline for thousands of last panels. The single most frequent image in old comics is not an alley cat …
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ISSUE 43 Tenth Anniversary: Spring 2012
online content:
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Anatomy of an Occupation
What really happened at Occupy Toronto? [full text] -
The Death of Networks
Occupy and the Arab Spring are often glowingly compared to the decentralized, democratic internet. But that very similarity may have doomed these movements from the beginning. [full text] -
Tenth Anniversary Timeline
A decade of Maisonneuve. [full text]
also in this issue:
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Face the Music
How can someone who passionately loves music also be a terrible singer? Tim Falconer takes up voice lessons—and discovers the surprising science of tone deafness. -
The Big Job
As a teenager, Deni Y. Béchard went to Vancouver to live with his father, an ex-con with a penchant for telling tall tales. He met a man desperate to forget the past. -
The Homesickness of Astronauts
"She felt a great sadness. She would remember next to nothing of this, even soon." - [see full issue contents]