Now this guy has class – a busking accordion player in the New York subway, wearing a Boba Fett helmet. Bounty hunting Boba Fett busker? It’s mad but true – I love it when real life throws up something wonderfully weird like this in an everyday location, it makes life that little bit more magical. [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 11, 2010
I love this short but really cute Japanese stop motion animated ukulele player piece! (via BoingBoing)
Continue reading...Thursday, January 28, 2010
Writer and artist Kevin Colden tells us that there’s a party night at Bergen Street Comics on Bergen Street (unsurprisingly!) in Brooklyn at 8pm on February 12th to celebrate a new video fromCulture Pop Productions‘ Carlos Molina and Seth Kushner (who’s superb photos of comics creators grace NYC Graphic). Its a music video for band [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 26, 2010
John and Sandra, the shiny duo behind Metaphrog comics, have a comics workshop this weekend in one of the my very favourite Glasgow institutions, the wonderful Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (as seen in Denise Mina’s run on Hellblazer, although now mostly demon free). From the description: “Learn how they make their own Louis graphic [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 16, 2010
Hype Machine is music website that links to a huge assortment of music blogs. They’ve recently posted up their top 50 artists of 2009, depending on how often they were listed on the site. But what makes it of interest here is the decision to commission 50 artists to accompany each entry. And there are [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 7, 2010
The Royal Mail has produced a set of stamps celebrating the classic artwork of rock and pop albums from the last four decades, with art from cover sleeves of works like pink Floyd’s Division Bell, Led Zepplin IV, the Rolling Stones’ Let it Bleed and Blur’s Park Life being among the cover designs chosen for [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Today’s blog guest for the Best of the Year was also a recent guest in our Edinburgh store where he signed copies of his debut graphic novel, Dark Entries. Creator of the internationally bestselling Inspector Rebus novels and a regular on shows like Late Night Review and the Culture Show, as well as stout supporter [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 22, 2009
(My Only Friend by and (c) Sean Azzopardi for 69 Love Songs) Here’s a nice union of two of our favourite things – music and comics. The How Fucking Romantic site has a great series of musically themed strips, with contributions from Huw Davies, Sean Azzopardi, Elizabeth Jordan, Tom Humberstone, Julia Scheele and more. I think [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Liz Prince has started a new monthly strip for the punk and indie rock site If You Make It, with the first strip, Punk Rock is Ruining My Teeth up now, go check it out. And while you’re on there have a rummage around the main site – as well as news and info there [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 18, 2009
(Björk, image borrowed from her website gallery) Icelandic singer and all round engima Björk is working with Sjón to create a song especially for a new film being made by the Finnish Filmkompaniet studio and due next year, “Moomins and the Comet Chase”. Hard to think on someone more suitable to sing for a Moomin Troll! [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 11, 2009
BBC Radio music news just mentioned that a certain Mister Alan Moore was collaborating with Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett on their next opera, following the Gorillaz boys’ successful Monkey: Journey to the West opera. I thought I had mis-heard, but on the BBC’s Newsbeat site there it is: “We’re planning for me to do [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 9, 2009
Oli East’s artwork for Elbow’s award-winning album The Seldom Seen Kid is being donated to the Manchester Art Gallery’s permanent Manchester collection, Guy Garvey has told him. Oli, still basking in the ‘new dad’ glow, notes on his blog that he was also liked the frame the band had for his artwork, made from salvaged [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 9, 2009
Yes, we know those of you in or bound for London are heading to the fab Comiket bash this afternoon in the ICA (with some of the cream of the Brit small press comics scene), but as Comica ‘09 really kicks into gear there’s much more going on, including a combined music and comics night [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 1, 2009
what have I become? my sweetest friend everyone I know goes away in the end and you could have it all my empire of dirt I will let you down I will make you hurt (Hurt by Trent Reznor, but made perfect by Johnny Cash) I’ve just finished Reinhard Kleist’s wonderful graphic biography of Johnny Cash – I See A Darkness and have to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Cash: I See a Darkness Reinhard Kleist Self Made Hero “If you wanna save your soul from hell, cowboy, then change your ways today. Or you’ll ride with us through these endless skies, forever on the hunt for the Devil’s herd...” Ghost Riders in the Sky To say award-winning German comics creator Reinhard Kleist’s graphic biography of the late, [...]
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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