Tag Archive | "music"

Comics: evolution of the earworm

Monday, May 6, 2013

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Earworms – they can be fun, they can be profoundly irritating. Those little tunes and songs that get into our head and simply won’t go away; we find ourselves going around humming, whistling and singing (and even chair-dancing at work) to that little earworm that got stuck in our brain and simply refuses to leave. [...]

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Upcoming: Alternative Press has No Dark Places event in June

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

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The Alternative Press crew are organising a small press fair as part of the No Dark Places music and DIY festival at The Albert on London’s Albert Road (near the Queen’s Park tube station), on June 1st. The small press fair runs from 11am to 5pm, with the music bash running from 12 noon to [...]

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Music: the sound of Cylons

Friday, March 15, 2013

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Now this made me smile – been around a little while on the interwebs, but I hadn’t seen it until my colleague Lee pointed me to it – “The Sounds of Cylons”. More than just a pun on the song name, the lyrics are a clever play on the original words crossed with events in [...]

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Animation: the rest is yet to come

Friday, March 8, 2013

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Good chum of the blog Dan Berry has been busy away from the comics creation and teaching scene, working on a great wee animated video for Jim Guthrie‘s track The Rest is Yet to Come, have a look-see:

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Comics: rock’n'roll superheroines

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

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Cliff Chiang creates this cool concept of an all-girl rock band composed entirely of DC superheroines. I especially love the way her long, dark hair and trademark top hat have been used to make Zatanna into a Slash style guitarist. (via Live For Films)

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Music: Moore’s The Decline of English Murder

Monday, November 5, 2012

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Our great bearded magus of Albion, Alan of Moore, has released a single, The Decline of English Murder, and also a trailer for the upcoming short movie Jimmy’s End, which Aan has made with Mitch Jenkins. The Stool Pigeon, of which we are very fond round these parts for their deft mixing of good music [...]

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Comics: Stool Pigeon returns – music and comics meet

Sunday, October 21, 2012

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The Stool Pigeon #40 – November 2012 Phil Hebblethwaite, Editor. Mickey Gibbons, Designer. Featuring comics and cartoons by Paul O’Connell, Lawrence Elwick, Krent Able, Becky Barnicoat,  Kristyna Baczynski, Richard Cowdry, David Ziggy Greene. Do I need to remind you about The Stool Pigeon? Great music paper, well written articles about a lot of musical types you young folks would know, [...]

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Animation: Naif

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

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Cartoonist and animator Piero Tonin animates this short work for musician and producer Sonia Brex: Naif from sonia brex on Vimeo.

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Video: Pekar’s World of Jazz

Monday, September 17, 2012

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This is quite cool, a short video promo clip for a Harvey Pekar project taking us through a history of his beloved jazz scene with some animation. Does anyone know if it ever actually got made? (tip of the hat to Comics Grid for the link): And since it is always a pleasure to remember [...]

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Out Now: Music and Comics in The Stool Pigeon

Sunday, August 26, 2012

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The Stool Pigeon #39 – September 2012 Phil Hebblethwaite, Editor. Mickey Gibbons, Designer. Featuring comics and cartoons by Paul O’Connell, Lawrence Elwick, Krent Able, Becky Barnicoat,  JC & APK, Kristina Baczynski, Richard Cowdry. New school term, new Stool Pigeon. Unrelated? Perhaps. Or perhaps they’re going for the coolest kid in the VIth Form market? We always used to get Melody [...]

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