A rare breed: At Toronto's Eye Weekly, Guy Leshinski looks at comic's double threat -- those rare creators who can write and draw, like Phoebe Gloeckner, Ivan Brunetti and R. Crumb:

"For starters, it takes Mormon devotion to learn how to draw. Looks simple enough when Dan Clowes does it, but you can bet your batusi Mr. Enid Coleslaw (Clowes' anagrammatic alter ego) spent his adolescence sweating boulders to master a proper circle, not to mention the clammy grotesques that populate his books. Pro cartoonists, even modern primitives like the Fort Thunder clan (a group of art grads from Rhode Island who suppress all hints of tutelage in their work), spill litres of saliva licking clean their Rapidograph nibs and run their carpals ragged practising shadow and perspective, proportion, volume, movement, composition, etc."