Every picture tells a story
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Every picture tells a story
The Age - Feb 16, 2008
Rooftop Cinema, perched above Curtin House in Swanston Street,is a place where people go to watch old films on balmy summerevenings. It may seem an unlikely place to undergo a life-changingexperience - but epiphanies are, by definition, unexpected andimprobable. Mandy Ord’s graphic novel Rooftops takes a bird’s-eyeview of Melbourne from the cinema and nearby buildings. It invitesreaders to see what is familiar in unfamiliar ways, and to reflecton why doing this may change our perception of much, much more thanwhat happens to be within our field of vision… That in itself is noteworthy. Australia has a long tradition ofcartooning and comic strips, but the graphic novel, in the specificsense of book-length works that rely at least as much on images ason text and are intended for an adult readership, has hitherto beenprincipally a North American, Japanese and European phenomenon. So why the sudden flurry of publishing in this country? It wouldbe as reasonable to ask why it has taken so long for home-growngraphic novels to start appearing in Australian bookshops, sincethe market for them and the talent to produce them have long beenhere. But there is no obvious answer to either question, or to theeven more intriguing one of why so much of this graphicstorytelling seems to be emerging from Melbourne. Ord is as Melburnian as the rooftops she sketches, and so isBruce Mutard, whose The Sacrifice, the first book in atrilogy about a reluctant Australian soldier in World War II, isabout to be published by Allen & Unwin. Allen & Unwin, which has also published a graphic version ofF. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby by Nicki Greenberg,another Melburnian, is the first major commercial publisher tolatch on to the graphic trend.
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Columbia Daily Tribune - Feb 16, 2008
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"We learned lots of lessons - good and bad," Teresa said, "but it gave us entrepreneurial fever, so when we decided to move back to St. Louis to be close to family, we saw a way to combine our passion for our pets with the opportunity to build a business our way and make a difference in the market. "
They started small, as many home-grown companies do, by selling their hand-made treats at mall kiosks. That led to the opening of their first store in Chesterfield. Shortly after that, the Millers learned that locally owned Doggie Empawrium in Columbia was available for sale. A deal was cut in 2003. To maintain a loyal customer base, the Millers retained the Doggie Empawrium name until 2006, when the store transitioned to become the Millers