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| | CNN - Salon review: 'The Funnies' - March 23, 1999 |
 | | After his father's death he gives up his girlfriend and his sculptures and goes home to the house he grew up in, deeded by will to his schizophrenic brother, Pierce, the one sibling who was never represented in the strip. |
| | Intent on protecting the "Family Funnies" franchise, Tim sits at his father's desk, tutored by Brad Wurster (a grumpy acolyte of the old man's who could never do a strip of his own), racing to learn the style he had once disdained fast enough to avoid being replaced by the impatient syndicate. |
| | When Tim discovers pornographic cartoons of his parents that his father had hidden and, later, in a storage room, giant cut-out versions of his family with red wagons full of their secrets, the strip characters begin to seem like two-dimensional voodoo dolls controlling the family's lives via symbols of their torments. |
| www.cnn.com /books/reviews/9903/23/funnies.salon/index.html (413 words) |
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