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12. Products From Print to TV 16.

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President Chris Evans

Editor in Cheif Ana Quintana

Sassy design assistant hanah delaurell

typesetter robert downey jr.

photographer ryan reynolds

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The main idea about my publication is going to be about comics. in today’s generation, most kids beleive that the superheroes that are appearing on tv or on the big screens, are just superheroes with no origin. the truth is that most of our favorite superheroes come from comics and their stories are turned into live action movies, or tv shows.

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his magazine came from my love of Marvel and DC movies, comics, and T.V. shows. Both Marvel and DC are incredible studios with much storytelling behind them that I felt that I should shed a light on the subject. I hope you enjoy this magazine as it is almost an example of who I am as a person. I wanted this magazine to be fun for all ages, and something everybody would enjoy to read. Comics today are not as popular as they once were due to the digital age, but because of Marvel and DC's recent succeses at the Box Office, comics are making abit of a comeback. From seeing comics come to life on the silverscreen, to just seeing them in cartoons, or on television shows, comics have come a long way from just pages in your hands. Hopefully you get to see what I mean about comics 'coming to life'.

Enjoy, Ana Quintana

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11 FACTS About Art Students

1.Students who study art are 4 times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement and 3 times more likely to be awarded for school attendance.

2.Arts and music education programs are mandatory in countries that rank consistently among the highest for math and science test scores, like Japan, Hungary, and the Netherlands.

3.Music programs are constantly in danger of being cut from shrinking school budgets even though they’re proven to improve academics. Show educators how important arts are in your community. Sign up for Music March Out. 4.The No Child Left Behind Act clearly mandates The Arts (music, art, foreign language, etc.) as a core academic subject.

5.One study group showed that 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students who were taught a foreign language every day in school outperformed the students who were not exposed to a foreign language on their Basic Skills Test.

6.Federal funding for the arts and humanities rolls in around $250 million a year, while the National Science Foundation is funded around the $5 billion mark.

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Netflix Binging The Neccesities for the Proper Binge

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e are becoming a nation of blue-faced zombies, hunkered down in front of our screens and watching our stories.

Fifty-percent of adults now identify as bingeviewers, meaning they’re watching multiple episodes of a TV show back-to-back, according to a new study of 1,000 adults with pay TV subscriptions released by accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. The percentage was even higher for those under 35.

More than half of survey respondents admitted they binged more frequently in 2014 than they did last year, and 60 percent said they string three or more episodes together at least once a month. More than half of millennials say they do so daily or weekly.

Netflix popularized binge watching, a fact the company is proud of, but it’s not just Netflix fueling this trend. The survey notes that an explosion of quality drama on cable, Netflix and other streaming sites is driving more viewership.

Sixty-one percent of those surveyed agreed with the statement, “there are too many shows to watch, and not enough time to watch them.”

7.Researchers find that sustained learning in music and theater correlates strongly with higher achievement in both math and reading.

8.In a study of a high-poverty schools in Chicago, the schools that were participating in the Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE) made huge strides in closing the gap between high- and low-income students’ academic achievement.

9.Multiple studies have concluded that curricular and extracurricular art studies and activities help keep high-risk dropout students stay in school.

10.New brain research shows that not only does music improve skills in math and reading, but it promotes creativity, social development, personality adjustment, and self-worth.

11.Research suggests that studying a second language is essential to the learning process, creative inquiry and critical thinking. Foreign language studies have proven to increase problem-solving skills and overall cognitive development.

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ree Summer Concerts Balboa Park’s Twilight in the Park Enjoy free amazing live music on Tuesday during the summer at Twilight in the Park From the beach to the mountains, San Diego Summers are full of amazing live music. Spend warm evenings under the stars listening to almost any type of music during free summer concerts. This week’s concerts series include: Del Mar Summer Twilight Concerts, Balboa Park’s Twilight in the Park Summer Concerts, Mission Hill’s Summer Concerts in the Park and Santee’s Summer Concert Series.

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an Diego International Boat Show San Diego International Boat Show Head to the San Diego International Boat Show for yachts, family cruisers, and dive into the exciting and healthy world of paddle sports Whether you’ve been yearning for a yacht, coveting a family cruiser, or anxious to dive into the exciting and healthy world of paddle sports, now is the time to make that dream a reality with nearly 150 boats for sale in addition to dozens of booths showcasing the newest nautical gear, gadgets and accessories. Not in the market to buy a boat?

The boat show is the perfect place to get your feet wet by trying kayaking, stand up paddleboarding and more.

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by Madame Crespi in Vogue—had a stiff overskirt Coco Chanel once dismissed her rival as “that Italian of Rhodophane (a transparent, glasslike modern artist who makes clothes.” (To Schiaparelli, Chanel material); a smart black suit jacket had red lips for was simply “that milliner.”) pockets. Handbags, in the form “Madder and more original than of music boxes, tinkled tunes like Indeed, Schiaparelli—“Schiap” to friends—stood out among her most of her contemporaries, “Rose Marie, I Love You”; others peers as a true nonconformist, fastened with padlocks. Monkey Mme Schiaparelli is the one using clothing as a medium to fur and zippers (newfangled in to whom the word ‘genius’ is express her unique ideas. In the thirties) were everywhere. applied most often,” the thirties, her peak creative love of trompe l’oeil can period, her salon overflowed be traced to the faux-bow with the wild, the whimsical, and even the ridiculous. sweater that kick-started Schiaparelli’s career Many of her madcap designs could be pulled off only and brought her quirky style to the masses. by a woman of great substance and style: Gold ruffles “Dare to be different,” is the advice she offered to sprouted from the fingers of chameleon-green suede women. Pace-setters and rule-breakers waved that gloves; a pale-blue satin evening gown—modeled flag through the sixties, the seventies, and beyond.

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Life is LOCOMOTION If you’re not moving, you’re not living.

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THE FLASH

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he Flash airs on The CW on Tuesday nights. Based on characters and select stories from DC Comics, the series centers on forensic scientist Barry Allen. When struck by lightning charged by an exploding particle accelerator, Barry gains the ability of super speed and becomes The Flash, the fastest man alive. Inspired by his friend Oliver Queen/The Arrow, and in partnership with his new friends at S.T.A.R. Labs, Barry immediately takes to superheroics. Jumping into the fray to stop the crooked metahumans created by the particle accelerator’s explosion, The Flash speeds to victory with help from Caitlin Snow, Cisco Ramon, and (for now) Harrison Wells. He also teams up with police officers Joe West and Eddie Thawne, and pines after the love of his life, Joe’s daughter Iris.

since rival Marvel Studios’ Iron Man, when Tony Stark said, “Yeah, I can fly” and declared definitively, “I am Iron Man,” has a hero shown us how to be super in such a swashbuckling way.

Barry Allen, not just The Flash, is a superhero. Sure, we’ve seen that when he temporarily lost his powers in the old superhero trope, but it’s clear in the way he approaches his entire operation. If he had never met Cisco, Caitlin, and Harrison, Barry Allen gives the impression that he would still run into action (he just wouldn’t seem quite as cool or smooth while doing it). The inherent sense of heroism was already there, and the lightning just pushed it ever further toward the surface.

I mentioned a superhero trope, and that’s another thing The Flash pulls off to great effect. While many comic What Makes It Unique book shows, especially the superhero variety, try to dance around the source The biggest thing pushing the The Flash material, The Flash embraces it. past its competitors is its main conceit: That’s not to say every story is lifted an average kid who gets powers directly from the printed page, or that and excitedly, readily, jumps into the characters and directions haven’t been superhero biz. Oliver Queen is literally changed – of course they have. It just tortured into his position. The Agents means that this show recognizes, more of S.H.I.E.L.D. have a sense of duty. than any other, that the character (in Barry Allen just wants to be a hero. his many incarnations) has thrived for 75 years at DC Comics for many Why It’s The Best great reasons, and it’s not afraid to use those reasons to its advantage.

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That manifests in the form of Thawne continues to leak out. the aforementioned occasional Luckily, that only strengthens the superhero trope, like the loss of argument. The Flash doesn’t just powers or hiding his secret identity have the best, most enthusiastic from the object of his affection. hero on screen, it has the best Sometimes, the series shines villains, too. The show has managed through the sheer goofiness of its to introduce major Rogues like characters’ names, shown here Captain Cold and Heatwave while through the giddy excitement also reaching relative unknowns of Cisco (he’s not just a tech like Rainbow Rider or digging genius, he also names most of into the archives for a pair of Flash’s foes). It even characterizes Tricksters. The Reverse-Flash, Barry’s very heart and soul. meanwhile, has lurked mostly Flash’s enthusiasm, desire to in the background. With only a do good, eternal optimism, and handful of appearances teasing ability to embody hope itself all his larger mystery, every nugget come directly from the comic continues to build to what should books. Together, these attributes be a glorious payday. Oh, and we’re make up the TV show’s core. getting a hulking telepathic superintelligent gorilla this season, too.

Of course, we’d be remiss to give merely a passing mention to the The Final Word supporting cast. The S.T.A.R. trio of Caitlin, Cisco, and Harrison are While all of The Flash’s individual outstanding for technical jargon, elements contribute to it being moral support, and the occasional the best comic book show on TV, deus ex machina. The crew’s ultimately, it’s the sense of fun, of relentless assistance has quickly adventure, and of wish fulfillment grown into something more closely that keep us watching every week resembling a family unit. Of course, and wishing we were the fastest that should all change as Harrison’s man alive. That, and Grodd, secret life as time-traveling the super intelligent telepathic villain Eobard “Reverse-Flash” gorilla. I mean, come on!

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he only group of fans more traumatised than people who watch The Walking Dead, are people who read The Walking Dead. Whilst the AMC series about a group of survivors making their way across a zombie-infested United States has become a ratings sensation in its so far five seasons (with a sixth and a spin-off to come), it might have an even bigger following in its original form.

The Walking Dead comic – written and created by TV show consultant Robert Kirkman and drawn by Charlie Adlard – is a fair ways ahead of the story on TV, clocking in at over a hundred issues at this point. Bear in mind this is a monthly book, too, so whilst the series has been on screens for five years at this point? The comics have that beat by a good seven years on top of that.

For the most part the adaptation has followed the source material fairly closely, and looking at where the comics have gone since give a good idea of what’s to come next. But it may be less reliable than you think, since the TV show has made some significant changes to the original text over the years.

Mostly it’s in the form of people having even more violent and horrifying deaths – which, considering some that appeared in this past season, is mighty impressive – and plot twists even more shocking than you saw on screen. Those and some unconventional relationships figure into The Walking Dead’s ten big differences between the comics and the show.

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Origins of the Comic

from a mugger, so Jarvis introduces him to The Avengers to help him clear his name.

Iron Man sees that Hawkeye is sincere and sponsors his membership into the group.

In 1960, the Justice League first appeared in DC’s The Brave and the Bold. The line up, featuring Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman and the Martian Manhunter, soon became quite a hit. Not to be left in the dust, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby quickly put together their own super-hero team and launched The Avengers in September of 1963.

The first line up featured Thor, Hulk, Ant-Man, the Wasp and Iron Man. Similar to the ending of Captain America: The First Avenger, at the end of Captain America’s last story line prior to meeting The Avengers, he is lost in the Atlantic Ocean. In the comic, The Avengers discover his body floating in a block of ice and then revive him in issue #4. He soon joins the team and is given “founding member” status in place of Hulk. Hawkeye is added to the team in issue #63. While he always intended to be a good guy, he fell victim to a misunderstanding during his first outing as a super hero.

After being chased by other heroes, he eventually runs into, and quickly falls in love with, the Black Widow, a spy for the U.S.S.R. Following her lead, he helps her steal technology from Tony Stark.

Black Widow is injured during one of their escapades, but before Hawkeye can get her to the hospital, she disappears. After this, he pledges to be nothing but good from then on. Later on, he rescues Edwin Jarvis

Black Widow’s backstory is even more interesting as she is a spy for the Soviet Union who has been repeatedly brainwashed to ensure her loyalty. Despite this, she does try to defect to the U.S. after falling in love with Hawkeye and seeing that he has since joined The Avengers. Unfortunately, she is injured by an agent of the KGB and re-brainwashed. She then goes on to fight against the heroes until she recovers her past identity and then manages to successfully defect and join the team in issue #111, eight years after Hawkeye joined.

As time wears on, the group loses and gains a variety of members, including the Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Vision, Beast, Wonder Man, Falcon, Ms. Marvel, Wolverine, SheHulk, Storm, Spider-Man, Luke Cage, and many, many more. The team also breaks up and reunites in a variety of story lines, occasionally resulting in more than one Avengers team operating at a time, most notably during the Marvel Civil War story line, where the U.S. requires all heroes to register with the government, an act many heroes fight against, while others happily oblige.

The characters in the movie all have joined before the group begins splintering though.

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hat do Jean Genet, Jimmy Durante, Brigitte Bardot, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jacques Cousteau, Andy Warhol, and Lena Horne have in common?

They were a few of the many personalities caught on film by photographer Richard Avedon. For more than fifty years, Richard Avedon’s portraits have filled the pages of the country’s finest magazines. His stark imagery and brilliant insight into his subjects’ characters has made him one of the premier American portrait photographers.

Born in New York in 1923, Richard Avedon dropped out of high school and joined the Merchant Marine’s photographic section.

Upon his return in 1944, he found a job as a photographer in a department store. Within two years he had been “found” by an art director at Harper’s Bazaar and was producing work for them as well as Vogue, Look, and a number of other magazines. During the early years, Avedon made his living primarily through work in advertising. His real passion, however, was the portrait and its ability to express the essence of its subject.

of the person being photographed, the images seem intimate in their imperfection. While many photographers are interested in either catching a moment in time or preparing a formal image, Avedon has found a way to do both.

As Avedon’s notoriety grew, so did the opportunities to meet and photograph celebrities from a broad range of disciplines. Avedon’s ability to present personal views of public figures, who were otherwise distant and inaccessible, was immediately recognized by the public and the celebrities themselves. Many sought out Avedon for their most public images.

His artistic style brought a sense of sophistication and authority to the portraits. More than anything, it is Avedon’s ability to set his subjects at ease that helps him create true, intimate, and lasting photographs.

Throughout the 1960s Avedon continued to work for Harper’s Bazaar and in 1974 he collaborated with James Baldwin on the book Nothing Personal. Having met in New York in 1943, Baldwin and Avedon were friends and collaborators for more than thirty years. For all of the 1970s and 1980s Avedon continued working for Vogue magazine, where he would take some of the most famous portraits of the decades. In 1992 he became the first staff photographer for The New Yorker, and two years later the Whitney Museum brought together fifty years of his work in the retrospective, “Richard Avedon: Evidence”. He was voted one of the ten greatest photographers in the world by Popular Photography magazine, and in 1989 received an honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Art in London. Today, his pictures continue to bring us a closer, more intimate view of the great and the famous.

Beyond his work in the magazine industry, Avedon has collaborated on a number of books of portraits. In 1959 he worked with Truman Capote on a book that documented some of the most famous and important people of the century. Observations included images of Buster Keaton, Gloria Vanderbilt, Pablo Picasso, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Mae West. Around this same time he began a series of images of patients in mental hospitals.

Replacing the controlled environment of the studio with that of the hospital he was able to recreate the genius of his other portraits with non-celebrities. The brutal reality of the lives of the insane was a bold contrast to his other work. Years later he would again drift from his celebrity portraits with a series of studio images of drifters, carnival workers, and working class Americans.

“All photographs are accurate.

None of them is the truth.” -Richard Avedon

Throughout his career Avedon has maintained a unique style all his own. Famous for their minimalism, Avedon portraits are often well lit and in front of white backdrops. When printed, the images regularly contain the dark outline of the film in which the image was framed.

Within the minimalism of his empty studio, Avedon’s subjects move freely, and it is this movement which brings a sense of spontaneity to the images. Often containing only a portion

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THE RETURN OF THE SITH Star Wars: The Force Awakens (also known as Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens) is an upcoming American epic space opera film directed by J. J. Abrams. The seventh installment in the episodic Star Wars film series, it stars John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, and Max von Sydow, with Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker reprising roles from previous films.

The story is set approximately 30 years after the events of Return of the Jedi (1983).

The Force Awakens will be the first film in the planned third Star Wars trilogy announced after The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of Lucasfilm in October 2012. It is produced

by Abrams, his long-time collaborator Bryan Burk, and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. Along with directing and producing, Abrams also co-wrote with Lawrence Kasdan, who co-wrote the original trilogy films The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

Abrams and Kasdan rewrote an initial script

by Michael Arndt, who also wrote the story treatment. John Williams returns to compose the score, and Star Wars creator George Lucas serves as creative consultant.

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THE MIGHTY AVENGERS

Force field's down.

TONY! Got it!

J.A.R.V.I.S, scan the area, see if you find anything.

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I'm detecting steel reinforcements and a passageway.....

Please be a secret door, please be a secret door...

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