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Michel does the work of an entire bullpen. He is everyone from CEO Martin Goodman all the way down to Chris Claremont, the once-intern who dreamt up a world of drama and romance and heartbreak and triumph and cool looking characters with hair triggers who unleash nuclear action upon some fictitious analog city across the ocean. He is Sol Brodsky, the production manager who was the heartbeat of Marvel for decades. He is the workhorse Buscema brother, the groundbreaking Bill Sienkiewicz, the interminably imaginative Jack Kirby and, yes, even the marketing mastermind and figurehead himself, Stanley Lieber.
In the early months of 2024, I realized there was a golden sliver of time in which one of the great works of indie cartooning was being forged. Fiffe was in his studio, fashioning from the raw material of his mind and the ink-blood of his pen nib the conclusion to his magnum opus.
Copra has given you a chance to bring new characters in and retire others, all at your own discretion. This differs from the way the Big Two work because there is typically an editorial layer above the creative team that sets the parameters (which have been handed down by the lawyers and the C-suite). As creator, CEO, editor, cartoonist (writing, penciling, inking, lettering, coloring), and production manager of Copra, what does making those decisions look like? How do these characters develop?
What would you say are the most influential works on Copra? Clearly there’s the Suicide Squad element of the team itself, but I mean aside from that conceit what works have you regularly looked to as a guide throughout the series?
Using a 9-panel grid as a foundation has been a super helpful guide for this arc. It’s not that each page has an overt 9-panel grid, but what that means is that it’s an invisible foundation, much in the same way that every DKR page conforms to the 16-panel page with varying degrees of division. I felt that this approach would help me steer all of the plots that eventually interweave pretty tightly. Plus, I think it gives the narrative a sense of cohesion that’s not as obvious. On a practical level, it’s weird. It saves me time from having to figure out different layouts all the time, but I spend that “saved” time blocking things within the 9-grid. It all evens out. And really, that rigid structure balances the bigger moments of anarchy on the visual plane. There are chaotic scenes with no infrastructure, where I play with figures in a spatial capacity.
It’s anchored me, it’s strengthened my sense of purpose, it’s literally kept me alive. It’s been a test, it’s been fruitful, I’ve taken lumps, I’ve met lifelong friends and readers. That connection is real, people connect to it in a real way. It’s not just a fun little hip project to be consumed and discarded, it’s a profound relationship between those who engage. Copra is my life.
All full-time employees, including those on flexible or compressed work schedules, are entitled to an “in lieu of” holiday when a holiday falls on a nonworkday. Part-time and intermittent employees are not entitled to an “in lieu of” holiday. If an agency’s office or facility is closed due to an “in lieu of” holiday for full-time employees, the agency may grant administrative leave to part-time employees who are otherwise scheduled to work on that day. (See 63 Comp. Gen. 306 (1984).)
Agencies may not designate, or permit employees to choose, a different “in lieu of” holiday. However, the regular day off of an employee on an alternative work schedule or non-standard schedule may be changed (subject to applicable agency policy and collective bargaining agreement provisions) to another day in the pay period, which may affect whether a holiday falls on a nonworkday.
An employee is not entitled to another day off as an “in lieu of” holiday if a Federal office or facility is closed on a holiday because of a weather emergency or when employees are furloughed on a holiday.
A1. When a holiday falls on a nonworkday outside a full-time employee’s basic workweek, he or she is entitled to an “in lieu of” holiday. The general rule is that the “in lieu of” holiday is the workday immediately preceding the nonworkday on which the holiday fell. However, when the holiday falls on a Sunday nonworkday (or, for an employee whose basic workweek includes Sunday, a nonworkday (if any) designated as the employee’s in-lieu-of-Sunday nonworkday), the “in lieu of” holiday is the workday immediately following the nonworkday. (See 5 U.S.C. 6103(b) and section 3 of Executive Order 11582, February 11, 1971.)
For employees whose basic workweek includes a Sunday, the agency may designate one of the employee’s nonworkdays within this tour of duty as a deemed Sunday (i.e., designated “in lieu of” Sunday) for the purpose of applying the “in lieu of” holiday rules. In these instances, the agency must determine which nonworkday would be considered the employee’s deemed or “in lieu of” Sunday. If a holiday falls on the designated in-lieu-of-Sunday nonworkday, the next workday after that nonworkday will be the “in lieu of” holiday. For example, if an employee has a 5-day Thursday-Monday workweek with nonworkdays of Tuesday and Wednesday, the agency could designate the second nonworkday, Wednesday, as the deemed or “in lieu of” Sunday. If the November 11th Veterans Day holiday fell on Wednesday, then the “in lieu of” holiday would be the next workday, which would be Thursday.
Q2. When a holiday falls on an employee’s regular day off under an Alternative Work Schedule (i.e., AWS day off), does the employee’s AWS day off change? Is the employee entitled to an “in lieu of” AWS day off?
A2. No. An employee’s AWS day off (nonworkday) does not change. Since the holiday falls on a nonworkday, the employee is entitled to an “in lieu of” holiday. Therefore, the agency must apply the rules in Q1 and determine the “in lieu of” holiday for employees on alternative work schedules.
Q3. What is the “in lieu of” holiday for an employee on an alternative work schedule (AWS) (i.e., flexible work schedule or compressed work schedule) whose regularly scheduled AWS day off is the same day as the holiday?
A4. No, with one limited exception. An agency may select an alternative “in lieu of” holiday for employees on fixed compressed work schedules if the agency head determines that a different “in lieu of” holiday is necessary to prevent an “adverse agency impact,” as defined in 5 U.S.C. 6131(b). (See 5 U.S.C. 6103(d).)
Although there is no authority for an agency to change the “in lieu of” holiday for an employee on a flexible work schedule, the employee may reschedule his or her AWS day off consistent with agency policy.
A5. No, there is no authority to grant an “in lieu of” holiday to part-time or intermittent employees. Part-time employees are entitled to a holiday only if they have a regularly scheduled basic (i.e., nonovertime) tour of duty on the actual day provided as the holiday through statute or an Executive order. Intermittent employees do not have a regularly scheduled tour of duty and may not be paid for holidays not worked.
A6. Yes. An “in lieu of” holiday could be determined to be in another pay period. For example, consider an employee who works an alternative work schedule (AWS) with Monday-Friday workdays, except that the employee has the first Monday of the pay period designated as the employee’s regular day off (i.e., AWS day off). A holiday falls on the Monday AWS day off. The “in lieu of” holiday is the preceding workday. In this example, the preceding workday is Friday, which would be at the end of a pay period, and thus that Friday would be the employee’s designated “in lieu of” holiday.
While an agency may not change an AWS employee’s “in lieu of” holiday (see Q4 above), the employee may reschedule his or her AWS day off consistent with agency policy. For example, if the employee in the above example changes the AWS day off from Monday to Tuesday, Monday would be the employee’s holiday (no “in lieu of” holiday determination) and the employee’s AWS day off would be Tuesday. Both the holiday and AWS day off would occur in the same pay period.
A7. Most “in lieu of” holiday designations will be known in advance of the completion of the biweekly pay period. In the unlikely event that there is no opportunity for an employee to take time off on the designated “in lieu of” holiday, the normally applicable rules that apply to Federal holidays govern the treatment of the “in lieu of” holiday. As explained in Q6, an employee under an AWS may reschedule his or her AWS day off consistent with agency policy. Agency policy may allow for such rescheduling during the affected pay period, if such rescheduling is possible under the circumstances.
(Note: The holiday falls on a nonworkday. The following rules apply, for example, when the week contains an Alternative Work Schedule day off. The “deemed Sunday” is the nonworkday designated as the “in lieu of” or deemed Sunday.)
In addition, Customs is the first line of defense against the illegal importation of merchandise manufactured with forced child labor as well as weapons of mass destruction used in terrorist threats. The Agency is also tasked with combating crimes in cyberspace. This type of crime most certainly was not envisioned back in 1789 when the Customs Service began as the collector of imports and duties on products entering the United States. Yet the Agency must keep pace with the criminal element that will stop at nothing to exploit children, launder money and violate intellectual property rights over the Internet. For Customs, the technology and expertise needed to combat cybercrime is as essential as the high tech equipment needed for processing legitimate cargo and passengers at the hundreds of ports of entry around the United States. https://sites.google.com/view/winktv-park-nima-kw7142-full
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