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American Splendor

Besides Crumb, other notable American Splendor illustrators include Alison Bechdel, Brian Bram, Chester Brown, Alan Moore, David Collier, Gary Dumm, Frank Stack, Drew Friedman, Dean Haspiel, Val Mayerik, Josh Neufeld, Spain Rodriguez, Joe Sacco, Gerry Shamray, Jim Woodring, Joe Zabel, Ed Piskor, and Greg Budgett.

Andrey Avinoff

Avinoff also made six trips to Jamaica which he described as "a dreamland of tropical splendor" between 1926 and 1940, five of them with Nicholas Shoumatoff, the son of his sister Elizabeth Shoumatoff, who Avinoff largely served as a father figure for.

Anthony Kohlmann

Her brother, Thomas Carbery, the Mayor of the District of Columbia, protested to Kohlmann that she would be dead before the prayer session could occur, but the Jesuit told him not to worry, that the splendor of the miracle would be all the greater for occurring at the very last minute.

Arthur Omar

In 2001, Omar received awards given by the Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte for two exhibitions: The Splendor of Opposites, a series of landscape photographs of the Amazon.

Brian Bram

Underground cartoonist Jay Lynch introduced him to Pekar who hired him to illustrate stories in the first issue of American Splendor.

Bram contributed to the first two issues of American Splendor, along with artists Gary Dumm, Gregg Budgett, and Robert Crumb.

Carnival Splendor

Carnival Splendors godmother is Myleene Klass, who on 8 June 2008 christened the vessel in Dover in a lighthearted ceremony where she played Sailing on the piano, while a Royal Navy diver climbed up five decks on a rope, and broke the bottle of champagne on the bow by hand.

In March 2009, Carnival Splendor was the host ship for Mayercraft Carrier 2, a four-day cruise from 27 to 31 March, from Los Angeles to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico hosted by musician John Mayer and featuring music and comedy shows.

Chinese painting

Artists such as Zhou Fang showed the splendor of court life in paintings of emperors, palace ladies, and imperial horses.

Conway, Massachusetts

Brian Bram, illustrator for Harvey Pekar's American Splendor

Gary Dumm

Much of Dumm's work on American Splendor was as an inker, embellishing the pencils of Greg Budgett and Joe Zabel.

Grover Lewis

In 2005, the University of Texas Press released a compendium of his entire career entitled Splendor in the Short Grass, edited by and with an introduction by Jan Reid and W.K. Stratton, and with a foreword by Dave Hickey and a remembrance by Robert Draper.

Japanese sculpture

Earliest examples of Buddhist art may be seen in accumulated splendor at the seventh century Horyuji temple in Nara, whose buildings themselves, set in a prescribed pattern with main hall, belfy, pagodas, and other buildings enclosed within an encircling roofed corridor, retain an aura of the ancient era, together with the countless art treasures preserved within their halls.

Jesús Mosterín

Special attention is paid to the main thinkers of the period of splendor of Islamic civilization (8th to 12th centuries), like Avicenna, Averroes, Omar Khayyam and Al-Khwarizmi.

Journey to Mars

Journey to Mars the Wonderful World: Its Beauty and Splendor; Its Mighty Races and Kingdoms; Its Final Doom is an 1894 science fiction novel written by Gustavus W. Pope.

Lampadarius

"The priests," he says, "are still, and the deacons stand in silence, the whole people is quiet and still, subdued and calm. The altar stands crowned with beauty and splendor, and upon it is the Gospel of life and the adorable wood i.e. the cross. The mysteries are set in order, the censers are smoking, the lamps are shining and the deacons are hovering and brandishing fans in likeness of watchers" (Conolly "Liturgical Homilies of Narsai", p. 12).

Lowie Vermeersch

During this period, he worked on many production cars for Pininfarina's traditional clients, such as Ferrari and Peugeot, and cars for emerging markets such as the Chinese JAC B18 and the Brilliance Splendor SW, both presented at the 2008 Beijing Auto Show.

Margaret Clancey

Clancey edited twenty-nine Hollywood films from 1927 to 1938, including Hangman's House, Society Girl, Slaves of Beauty, Song o' My Heart, The Gay Desperado, History Is Made at Night, Mother Knows Best, Splendor and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Ocean Dream Diamond

The Ocean Dream was displayed as part of the Smithsonian's "The Splendor of Diamonds" exhibit, alongside the De Beers Millennium Star, The Heart of Eternity and the Moussaieff Red.

Quitchupah Creek

It exits Convulsion Canyon and crosses under Utah State Route 10, south of the town of Emery, and then flows southeasterly and intersects with Ivie Creek, which ultimately merges with Muddy Creek and passing the Hidden Splendor Mine area, it passes through the San Rafael Reef at the Muddy Creek Gorge.

Side degree

Ancient Mystic Order of Samaritans - the culmination of a number of side degrees of the Oddfellows, most of which adopt the pseudo-Middle Eastern "oriental" theme - Oriental Order of Humility and Perfection, Veiled Prophets of Bagdad, Knights of Oriental Splendor, Ancient Mystic Order of Cabirians and the Imperial Order of Muscovites, who were unique in adopting a Russian motif.

Slowdive

Director Gregg Araki uses Slowdive's music in many of his films; Splendor includes the song "Shine." "Alison" is played in The Doom Generation and "Blue Skied an' Clear" is played during the closing credits.

Woman Chases Man

This was the fifth and final film that Hopkins and McCrea made together, the others being The Richest Girl in the World, Barbary Coast, Splendor and These Three.

You Gotta Quintet

On December 1, 2005, the program won an Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union Award in the children/young people program section) with the notation "that was able to stream down splendor, the pleasure that this program used the doll, and the music had" at the 42nd annual general meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam.


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