Tag Archive | "music"

Gaiman’s musical

Sunday, April 1, 2012

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As regular followers of Neil Gaiman‘s blog will doubtless know he has been taking some time recently to sequester himself away in order to concentrate on some new writing. Novels, comics, films, poetry, Neil is an expert at adapting his writing imagination to almost any storytelling medium, it seems; now he is about to take [...]

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You’re a creep, Charlie Brown..

Thursday, January 26, 2012

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Clips from the old Peanuts animated cartoon recut and edited to go along with the eerily beautiful Vega Choir’s cover of Radiohead’s brilliant song, Creep. Somehow both funny and quite sad at the same time and it fits poor ‘ole Charlie Brown very well… (Linkage from Laughing Squid via that man Matt Staggs):

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See my vest…

Thursday, January 19, 2012

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(Simpsons (c) Fox) For some unknown reason I had a song from the Simpsons stuck in my head all day yesterday – Mister Burns singing “see my vest” (in a pastiche of a classic musical scene whose name escapes me at the moment) as he shows off his wardrobe full of handmade garments fashioned from [...]

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Killoffer’s album art

Thursday, January 5, 2012

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BD Gest reports on a new album by Renaud, the limited two disc edition of which comes complete with an 80-page CD-sized illustrated work/comic by the excellent Killoffer. Nice. (thanks to Simon Gurr for the tip):

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Yuletide Stool Pigeon…..

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

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The Stool Pigeon – Issue 35 / Yuletide 2011 Phil Hebblethwaite, Editor. Mickey Gibbons, Designer. Featuring comics and cartoons by Paul O’Connell, Lawrence Elwick, Tom Brass, Lindsay Pollock, Krent Able, JC & APK, Richard Cowdry, David Ziggy Greene. “Yes indeed, 40 of your all-time favourite musicians and writers got together to tell you a story in the Exquisite Corpse-style. It’s… potty. [...]

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Love, Loss, The Handsome Family and Dan Berry shoots a bear….

Thursday, December 22, 2011

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After We Shot The Grizzly By Dan Berry (words by Rennie Sparks of The Handsome Family) Okay. So, Dan Berry decides, just like that, to transcribe a song by alt-country band The Handsome Family into comic form. Comic folk can be strange, impetuous folk. Or, like Berry says on his website, October 5th: “I began [...]

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Bagge it this Friday

Friday, November 25, 2011

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Seattle is the place to be this Friday – the awesomeness that is Peter Bagge will be in the Fantagraphics (1201 S. Vale Street) store Friday November 25th from 7pm – comics, signings, chat and brews will be the order of the evening, followed by decamping to next door club Mix where Bagge’s “power pop [...]

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Cool Jazz and Comics

Thursday, November 17, 2011

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You might recall a few months back Wim talked about a cool-sounding, jazz-inspired comics short story collection involving Philip Paquet (see here) – now there’s a short video with Paquet about a collaboration with the Brussels Jazz Orchestra. It’s in Flemish rather than English, but you can still enjoy some top musically inspired comics art [...]

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The Doctor Who Fan Orchestra

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

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Now this is just brilliantly impressive – the Doctor Who Fan Orchestra at work. Not only a group of dedicated fans who are also musicians coming together to play some of Murray Gold’s excellent music for Doctor Who, but a group who are organised to play together online from all over the place, brought together [...]

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Have you seen my sister Evelyn?

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

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We do like a bit of Amanda Palmer around here and there is some lovely animation in her Evelyn Evelyn music video; the Evelyn Evelyn book by Amanda, Jason Wbley and Cynthia Von Buller was released just recently by Dark Horse.

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Stool Pigeon 34 – more of the comics in a great music paper

Saturday, October 15, 2011

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The Stool Pigeon #34 – November 2011 Phil Hebblethwaite, Editor. Mickey Gibbons, Designer. Featuring comics and cartoons by Paul O’Connell, Lawrence Elwick, Tom Brass, Lindsay Pollock, Krent Able, JC & APK, Richard Cowdry, David Ziggy Greene. God, that’s a great cover shot of David Lynch, isn’t it? Bloody good interview with the man in here as well. By now, if [...]

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Making geek music – Imperial March on a floppy drive

Friday, October 7, 2011

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La Marche Impériale par deux lecteurs de disquette – Streaming This is satisfying on so many geek levels – the iconic Imperial March from John Williams’ Star Wars soundtrack but played on a couple of old floppy disc drives. Genuis. (thanks to Simon Moreton for the link)

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Comics as album covers

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

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This was posted on Planet Oddity and elswhere online a good while back, so apologies for those who’ve seen it already, but I came across it when looking for something else and couldn’t resist posting up a quick link to it – iconic 1980s album covers re-imagined with a comics theme, so the soundtrack for [...]

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A very animated Max

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

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In 1992, Spanish cartoonist Max (creator of the fantastic Bardin The Superrealist) created a video clip for the song Tierra by Spanish pop group Radio Futura.  Thanks to La Cárcel de Papel‘s Álvaro Pons, and while we’re waiting for the new Max book, which has been announced for the end of the year, we can [...]

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DC’s New 52 – the trailer…. a musical suggestion or two

Thursday, August 18, 2011

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DC have a few new titles coming out in September…. 52 of them. This week we saw the debut of the 30-second DC The New 52 trailer that they’ll be running in cinemas and on TV. Here it is…. Okay… good points: It’s a smart move to focus on the big characters – Batman, Superman, Wonder [...]

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