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Texas Instruments and Alteryx Tackle a Tax Problem
Similar to other tax departments, we at TI tax are faced with shorter timelines and limited headcount while addressing the complexity that expansion of our business and increasing global changes in tax law and regulatory requirements entail. An Alteryx workflow can be set up with relative ease, as a visual audit trail that allows the user to pull inputs from multiple structured and unstructured sources with the ability to check the computation and filters at every step of the way. [...]I would say that, as with any organization, we have limited IT resources.
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Pen and Wink
Art Spiegelman was arguably the first cartoonist to adopt the techniques and address the concerns of the larger culture: cubism, surrealism, formalist deconstruction, fragmentation. The bulk consists of this last group: “Zip-a-Tunes” features a character doing a cartwheel, only to have the halftone dots break free of the line drawing; “Day at the Circuits” creates a infinite and labyrinthine reading pattern; and “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” uses static drawings and narration to fix the story in an unending loop. Nor is a typical page-to-page sequence sufficient for the restless authors, who insert “facsimiles” of circus posters, popular prints, and excerpts from Etienne’s crudely yet charmingly illustrated diary.The book’s momentum occasionally flags, as when Etienne’s love interest disappears for a good while only to be abruptly eaten by piranhas shortly after her reappearance.
Magazine Article
Pen and Wink
Comics have a history of self-reflexivity and metacommentary dating back at least to the panel border smashed like a wooden frame by Winsor McCay's Little Sammy Sneeze in 1 905 and continuing over the years in venues as varied as Harvey Kurtzman's strip for children, Hey, Look!, and underground comics' flagship anthology, Zap Comix. The bulk consists of this last group: \"Zip-a-Tunes\" features a character doing a cartwheel, only to have the halftone dots break free of the line drawing; \"Day at the Circuits\" creates a infinite and labyrmthine reading pattern; and \"Don't Get Around Much Anymore\" uses static drawings and narration to fix the story in an unending loop.
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FRAMING CREATURES
Little else is known about this nearly forgotten cartoonist, and he might well have been lost to the ages if not for the obsession of the comics artists and fans who have kept the memory of many such marginal figures alive (see Dan Nadel’s Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900–1969 for an excellent overview of this alternate lineage of American comics history, as well as a Hanks tale not in the present volume). [...]an unusual number of the villains—whether gangsters, nihilist millionaires, or alien fiends—are not after money or power; instead, they want nothing less than the complete destruction of civilization (the book’s title aptly expresses the goal of these evildoers). The book consists almost solely of the stories, which generally alternate between Stardust’s and Fantomah’s (Big Red McLane and Buzz Crandall star in one story apiece), and this simplicity is refreshing in comparison with recent reprints that are overstuffed with essays, scrapbook photos, and examples of the artists’ “fine” art.
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Exit Wounds
In the graphic novel Exit Wounds, Israeli taxi driver Koby Franco finds himself on a reluctant quest to discover the fate of his estranged father after being contacted by a young female soldier who believes the elder Franco has died in a suicide bombing. Yet from behind Modan’s bright colors and low-key but witty repartee emerges a rather bleak view of human relationships and of men in particular (although women, such as Numi’s status-obsessed mother, hardly escape unscathed). Most of the male characters in the book are self-centered, womanizing boors, and the few exceptions are emasculated losers like Koby’s feeble uncle Aryeh and the comically unsuspecting cuckold who greets Koby and Numi at his door wearing a flower-print apron.
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