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the best-selling comic book
Cerebus — spilling over the
floor.

Dave Sim, local creator of
the intrepid aardvark known
to thousands of comic book
aficionados, looks as dishev-
elled as his studio.

It's one price of success,
says Sim, just back from
trips to London and New
York.

Since his conniving, ant-
eating character first burst

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would take the raps myself if
something I ‘did didn’t go
over.”

Cerebus was born when
Sim doodled the head of an
aardvark and misspelled the
name of the mythical three-
headed dog that guards the

on the comic book scene as
Cerebus the Barbarian 10
years ago, the 30-year-old,
self-taught artist now sells
82,000 copies of each monthly
issues of Cerebus through 11
distributors in Canada, the
United States and Britain.

Collectors pay up to $1,000
U.S. for a copy of the series’
first issue, says Sim, a Grade
11 dropout who began free-
lancing as a cartoonist while
still a teenager.

“J knew I wanted to do
comics and school is the
worst possible place for cre-
ative people because it's so

portals of Hades — a mistake
that changed his life.

“Tm more money
now than I know what to do
with,” he says.

Sim values his control over
the series and recently re-
fused an offer of a. $100,000
advance from the U.S. comic
took giant, C Comics, for the
rights to reprint and distri-
bute Cerebus.

MAKE MONEY
“I'd rather discover ways

money than settle for a small
percentage of the millions a
large corporation makes.

of making smaller amounts of .

ENTERTAINMENT

songs successful

NEW YORK (AP) — considered by
erities the most talented songwriter to emerge from
English new-wave rock, released two records last year
that he considers to be his most compassionate work,

King of America ‘was, released last spring,
co-produced with T-Bone Burnett and used country
studio musicians.

“There are not so many mean songs on it,” Costello
said in an interview. ‘Some of my most successful songs
have been quite malevolent. Those things are in me, like
in everybody else. When I start thinking. about angry
things I become meaner. I’ve got some pretty mean songs
lying festering away in my songbag, H he know.”

Blood and Chocolate, Costello's 13th LP in North
America, is a bitter and desperate record, obsessed with
betrayal and heartache. He recorded the album with his
long-time band, The A

“Over the last couple of years I had been doing
songs of great emotional substance. People's feelings
have been strong for more vivid material that came
earlier in my career. I haven't. gone to the hearts of
people. The ones they get excited about are the old songs,
still.

“Some people do their washing up to records,” said
Costello, who thinks his songs require concentrated
listening. “There's no handbook on how to listen to my
records but I think it is unlikely people wash up to mine.”

An aura of mystery and unavailability has surround-
ed Costello through much ‘of his career. “It was for
avoiding having to do interviews,” he said. “They had
written the article before they came to you. There was
very little point in saying anything.

“It was easier to foster being difficult or mysterious
or violent or all three, so people stayed away from you...
Let them write the stupid nonsense they were going to
write anyway. All I wanted to do was get on with the
work.”

Costello lives in London. He put his real name, Declan
McManus; on King of America. On Blood and Chocolate,
he called himself Napoleon Dynamite.

“T'm 82, I was 22 when I started. It's a way of saying

About changifig Declan McManus to Elvis Costello,
he said, “McManus was hard to say over the phone... My
great-grandfather’s name was Costello. My manager
added Elvis, like a stunt, a life-long stunt.”

MUSICAL FAMILY

Costello's grandfather came to the United States in
the 1990s as a ship's trumpet player. His father was &
trumpt player and singer, “I've got a trumpet; Tve
always meant to take it up,” he said. “Somebody gave me
a guitar. It has taken up all my time since.”

He left school when he was 18. “I was living in
Liverpool. I worked for a bank, then a eosmetics firm and
then I got in this business.

“I made my first records while still working,” he
said. “I'd take sick days off. I gave up the bank when they
said I had to stand outside when the bullion was delivered
and blow a whistle if there was a raid. The first person
they're going to shoot is the guy with the whistle.”

Costello has recently been doing some record
producing for the Irish band the Pogues. “I'm not
technically minded as a producer. I'm more like a musical
director. I grab something with imaginative feeling and
strong emotional content and capture it. I can describe
what I want to hear.

“T-Bone Burnett worked that way with me. He told
me not to lose my nerve if I failed to get one version
down. He told me not to tinker with it. Remember why I
wrote it instead of getting anxious and trying to change
it.”

Colin Spicer, secretary t
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Old works still strong

By ANN DUNCAN
Canadian Press

Author Margaret Atwood once wrote: “She's terrifying-
ly good; Mavis Gallant's insights into her characters are
achieved with breathtaking economy and rightness of
detail.”

Writer Clark Blaise commented that Gallant's stories
“are built of the purest sentences I know, and they will
endure.”

Both were referring to Gallant's fiction, which has
earned her Canada’s highest literary honor — the Governor
General's Award in 1981 for Home Truths: Selected
Canadian Stories.

But Atwood and Blaise could just as*easily have been
commenting about Gallant’s most recent book, her* first
collection of non-fiction.

STYLE INTACT

Paris Notebooks: Essays and Reviews is filled with the
hallmarks of Gallant's prose: the lean, taut, dense style; the
acerbic wit; and the cool, cerebral, yet not detached view.

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It’s not surprising that Gallant can write fact as well as
fiction. She had a budding career as a feature writer with the
now-defunct weekly Montreal Standard before abruptly
heading to Paris in 1960 to see if she could make a living
from her short stories.

What is surprising is that the book's longest essay, the

OOK REVIE

96-page Events in May, was written on the run. It was
drawn from her journal entries during the upheaval of May
1968, when Paris was brought to a standstill and France was
plunged: into- a~erisis “by: a wave ‘of demonstrations,
octupations and riots:

For more than a month, the country hovered on the
brink of something, but nobody knew what it was.

France “was either within a breath of armed revolution
or merely involved in a vast group-therapy session,” Gallant
writes.

INVOLVES READER

With her literary eye for telling details and gift for the
anecdotal, she draws her readers into the vortex of the civil
unrest.

The crisis finally fizzled out when President Charles de
Gaulle — who strangely disappeared for a number of days at
the height of the confusion — resurfaced. His government
defused the tension, partly by replenishing long-dry stocks
of gasoline to allow Parisians to escape the city for a holiday
weekend.

The denouement, Gallant observed, was “like. the
feeling after a miscarriage — instant thanksgiving that the
pain has ceased, plus the feeling of zero because it was all for
nothing.”

One of the most poignant essays in the book recounts the
story of Gabrielle Russier, a 30-year-old school teacher who
committed suicide in the late 1960s after being hounded by
French society and the courts for a brief affair she had with

In the best of journalistic traditions, Gallant tries to put
this case in the broadest possible context. She paints
Russier, in part, as a victim of the legal and mora] double
standards facing women in France.

“A Don Juan is admired” but a woman who has an affair
is “a disgrace to womanhood, as well as a whore, a pervert,
and a nymphomaniac,” she wrote.

The result provides a telling glimpse of an uglier, more
unjust side of contemporary France, the country Gallant has
made her home for the past 36 years.

“Gabrielle Russier was seven before women were
allowed to vote, 28 when married women could have bank
accounts, and 30 before she could legally get advise from a
doctor about contraception.

“She died before women were allowed to enroll their
children in kindergarten without the husband's written
consent, or have a say in where the family would live.”

The same highly critical view of France and things
French is woven into many other articles in Paris
Notebooks.

In one review, Gallant savages the writer Simone de
Beauvoir, saying her literary style “has the dazed,
ruminative rhythm of a French schoolgirl chewing gum at a
concert in time to Bach.”

About Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Gallant writes: “What a
lot of racist, miserly, backbiting Frenchmen, such as Celine,
have been glorious writers!”

But as acidic as she is at times about the French, Gallant
is also full of admiration for many aspects of their culture,
habits and quirks.

About Paul Leautaud, a long-neglected writer, she
observed: “He was sustained, without knowing it, by the
French refusal to accept poverty as a sign of failure in an
artist.”

Paris Notebooks: Essays and’ Reviews, by Mavis
Gallant. Published by Macmillan of Canada; 256 pages;
$24.95.

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NASHVILLE TENN.
(AP) — Lionel Richie's Say

By CasNews Staff

Nelson’s Chahko-Mika
Mail celebrated a $300,000
interior facelift Tuesday
with a reception for local
residents and invited
guests.

Work on the upgrading
started in November and
involved totally remodel-
ing the interior common

area to make it a more “re-
laxed and warm atmos-
phere,” says mall manager
Barrie Hunt.

For. instance, the old
fluorescent lights were re-
placed with the incandes-
cent type and three sky-
lights wi added. Plarits
were installed, along with
more benches and new
carpeting and tile.

MAIN STREET LOOK . . . (from left) director of shopping centres Regan, Andrea Janzen, also of Great-West Life, and mall manager
0 the mall manager Janice Hughes, Barrie Hunt are all smiles Tuesda
t-West Life real estate investments Allen newly renovated interior of Chahko-Mika Mall in Nelson.

New look celebrated

“It’s more enjoyable for
shoppers,” Hunt said, add-
ing that the upgrading is
the first major work on the
mall — owned by Great
West Life Assurance Co.
— since it opened six years
ago.

“We felt it was time,”
Hunt said.

New tenant signs were

night at the grand opening of the

—CasNews photo by Notalie Koorbatett |

the mall within the next

also part of the changes.
two months.

The upgrading was
made all the sweeter with
the addition of several new
tenants over the last few
months. Among the new
tenants is The Prospect
Inn restaurant, Ashtons,
and Kootenay Markdowns.
A national chain, Boppers,
which specializes in teen
fashions, plans to open in

As well, the Saan outlet
is expanding.

“It’s shaping up very
well,” Hunt said, noting
that the next upgrading
will involve the entrance
sign.

“We're just working on
that now,” he said.

gary.

Tony Hi
brook Snowmobile Club,
which is organizing the
event, believes as many as
5,000 snowmobilers will sign
up by this time next year.

Hopkins said Tuesday the
club is trying to attract
snowmobilers from the
United States for the event,
whigh would cost $796 U.S.
for the riders and $495 for

eight-day snowmobile vaca-
tion... and an unforgettable
international snowmobile
ride.”

Hopkins said the deal
would include accommoda-
tion, meals, gasoline, liability
insurance and tickets to some
Olympic events.

Groups of snowmobilers
would leave Libby, Mont.,
every three days starting
early next year. They would
go through Cranbrook and
Elkford, before reaching Cal-

gary.

Most of the 640-kilometre
trip would be spent traver-
sing mountainous logging
roads groomed especially for
the event, Hopkins said.

However, Olympic organi-
zers say they haven't re-
ceived orders for tickets from
the group and Alberta gov-
ernment officials have said
the group will have to stay
100 kilometres away from
Olympic events.

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Thursday, Jan. 22
5:30—Homecoming Basket
ball — Ex-Stanley
Humphries Rockers
played this year's
Rocker team in a
game that took place
over the holiday sea-

son.
7:00—Front Row Ticket —
Tim Frewer reviews

Choice Superchannel.
7:30—HMS Pinafore — This
well-known Gilbert
and Sullivan play is
performed by the
Rossland Light Opera
Players and was
taped during. their
dress rehearsal.
9:10—Castlegar city council
meeting of Tuesday,
Jan. 15 — gavel-to-

You, Say Me from the motion
picture White Knights was
chosen movie tune of the
year Tuesday night in the
fan-voted National Songwri-
ter Awards.

Richie was honored in ab-
sentia at the seventh annual
awards presentations during
a two-hour syndicated tele-
vision special that was broad-

Smoking

at home

could cost job

CHICAGO (AP) — Light-
ing up at home or at work
will cost employees their jobs
at nien USG Acoustical
Products plants, and the
company plans to conduct
lung tests to make sure
workers are complying with
the smoking ban.

“It will apply to everybody
in the plants, from the new
est hourly worker on up to
the plant manager — without

be the most punitive or asin-
ine proposal we've seen,”
said spokesman Scott Staph
at the institute in Washin-
gton. “Obviously there's just
an incredible invasion of pri
vacy concerned.”
PAY FOR CLINICS

Colitti said smokers will be
given an opportunity to par:
ticipate in organized kick-the-
habit programs in May or
June. They can enrol in a

exception,” sp Paul
Colitti said Tuesday at USG
Corp., holding company for
the U.S. building-products
manufacturer.

The quit-smoking-or-quit
policy will apply to between
1,500 and 2,000 workers in
eight states, Colitti said.

Employees must also re-
frain from smoking off the
job, he said.

The policy, which won't
apply at USG's corporate
headquarters in Chicago, ra
ised questions among legal
scholars and outraged the
Tobacco Institute, a U.S. in-
dustry group that called the
an an invasion of privacy.

“I think this would easily

—ARTS=

pi Pe ed Smoke
Enders clinic on company
time or be reimbursed for
programs ‘recommended by
their own physicians.

After the six- to eight-
week clinic conducted by
Smoke Enders, a national or-
ganization that counsels
smokers on quitting, USG
will give workers a grace
period of about one week to
kick the habit, Colitti said.

“Then we administer a
pulmonary function test that
measures lung capacity,
among other things,” he said.
“We'll know then if they are
still smoking. If they are,
we'll have no choice but to let
them go.”

Premiums
Premiums are up for most motorists as
a result of a sharp increase in claims for
injuries and vehicle damage in 1986.

For the majority, increases will be under
$25. About a quarter of a million will pay
between $26 and $50 more. For about 5,000
commercial vehicles with larger premiums
than private passenger cars, the iricrga
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For many motorists, an increase in Phird
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Liability Limits

A limit of $15 million Third Party Legal
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Weekly Payments Increase
The weekly “No-Fault” payments for dis-
ability or death increase from $130 to $145
far victims of accidents occurring on or

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We

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Revised coverage will apply to new and
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Ifthe decal on your number plate is “FEB 87” your auto
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Take time to discuss your insurance needs and changes
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Month of Januery . .. The N.E.C. is featuring an
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Other finalists were Dan.
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Top Gun; Glory of Love from
Karate Kid Part II; and
When the Going Gets Tough
from Jewel of the Nile.

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