tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217451372024-03-11T23:53:42.219-05:00Mystery HoardComics, Culture, and ClassBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262262627667900995noreply@blogger.comBlogger341125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21745137.post-6023527704927517282024-02-25T16:21:00.004-06:002024-02-25T16:24:15.084-06:00The Best Records of 1982!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzZNdRuco-os1r3rCHGfydiVblRGrwTlPbxjq9e6cZgXyk60JS8HqcCTsNFpSmw3pJvDlrJKfM-INFknwxr-22fzIvdIWOgzDgRhlb51pGag-Zayr7mI1zeINYDhli4YJ1T3ducdzAQf8y8XmOYyAZJNOHEDDsvzwsZoB_zaKorDbheS2zb6TrZQ/s1388/1982_hits.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1342" data-original-width="1388" height="447" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzZNdRuco-os1r3rCHGfydiVblRGrwTlPbxjq9e6cZgXyk60JS8HqcCTsNFpSmw3pJvDlrJKfM-INFknwxr-22fzIvdIWOgzDgRhlb51pGag-Zayr7mI1zeINYDhli4YJ1T3ducdzAQf8y8XmOYyAZJNOHEDDsvzwsZoB_zaKorDbheS2zb6TrZQ/w463-h447/1982_hits.jpg" width="463" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>PEAK POST-PUNK!</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>by BK Munn</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's taken me over 40 years, but I've finally whittled down my list of the Best Albums of 1982!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://frequential.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-best-records-of-1986.html">As I wrote in my notes for 1986</a>, the first one of these I attempted, this list comes with a number of caveats and blindspots, and I think I'm going to stick with the same quirky, personal format. So: this is a largely English-language, rock-oriented list reflecting my continued fetish for post-punk and garage rock sounds. There are a couple German records here, but that's about it. In part, this is a nostalgic list, but as usual most of the records here were totally unknown to me at the time. Some are new to me this week, but most have crossed my path at some point over the last four decades, and many I even own in vinyl format!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In 1982, I was only 12 but obsessed with not only Top 40 radio but also the synth pop and New Wave sounds coming out of Toronto's fm station CFNY. I distinctly remember hearing the dj for Hamilton's CKOC introduce Eddy Grant's "Electric Avenue" for the first time. I was a year or two away from real teenage rebellion and the discovery of our local college radio station CFRU, but nevertheless I thought I was cool because I had discovered David Bowie and listened to Scary Monsters and the ChangesOne compilation incessantly (Let's Dance didn't come out until 1983, I think). My tastes have changed since those days, but some of the records I liked back then I still like, meaning I can still stand to listen to them without too many unpleasant associations.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is not true for most of the big hits of the day. 1982 was the year of Michael Jackson's Thriller and despite it's continuing centrality to our culture and Western Civilization, I feel close to blowing my brains out whenever I hear the opening notes of any of the megahits from that album these days. I was pretty much burned out on that record by 1983, even as a kid. Ditto for most of the 1982 Top 40. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">1982 was a year that funk and hip-hop started to register with white people, post-Disco, but my list has very little of either. I decided to eliminate jazz from the list as well, even though there are excellent records from giants like Ornette Coleman, Nina Simone, and Alice Coltrane that year, as well as jazz-inflected things like Rip Rig and Panic, and Indian and African stuff like Rupa and Manu Dibango that interest me. No soundtracks on this list either, even though Morricone (The Thing) and Vangelis (the amazing Blade Runner soundtrack) were out there (David Lynch released his soundtrack for 1977's Eraserhead in 1982 as well). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I'm pretty proud of my curation of the first 30 or so records on this list, but to be honest, the rest of the list is more or less a random assemblage, with not much thought given to rankings. I have another 20 or so records that I could easily substitute for any 20 of the records in the bottom 52. Maybe I'll post those separately. For now I'm sticking to the gimmick of matching the number of slots with the year, so I'm limited here to 82 in total. I'm sure I've missed something! Let me know!</span></p><ol><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Fall, Hex Education Hour</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lilliput, Lillput</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Kate Bush, The Dreaming</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">English Beat, Special Beat Service</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Gang of Four, Songs of the Free and Another Day/Another Dollar</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, The Message </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Trio, Trio aka The Album/Da Da Da</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">REM, Chronic Town</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Daniel Johnston, Don’t Be Scared</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Prince, 1999</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Cocteau Twins, Garland</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Clean, Great Sounds Great, Good Sounds Good, So-so Sounds So-so, Bad Sounds Bad, Rotten Sounds Rotten</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Gun Club, Miami</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Clash, Combat Rock</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Cure, Pornography</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Blue Orchids, The Greatest Hit (Money Mountain) </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Siouxsie And The Banshees, A Kiss In The Dreamhouse</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dead Kennedys, Plastic Surgery Disasters</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Waitresses, Wasn’t Tomorrow Wonderful</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Simple Minds, New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">X, Under the Big Black Sun</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Talking Heads, The Name of This Band is Talking Heads</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Chic, Tongue in Chic</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">TV Personalities, Mummy Your Not Watching Me/They Could Have Been Bigger than the Beatles</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Birthday Party, Junkyard</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Wall of Voodoo, Call of the West</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Fleshtones, Roman Gods</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Judy Nylon and Crucial, Pal Judy</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Laurie Anderson, Big Science</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">XTC, English Settlement</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Familie Hesselbach, Familie Hesselbach</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lee "Scratch" Perry and the Majestics, Mystic Miracle Star</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Tom Verlaine, Words from the Front</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Nightingales, Pigs on Purpose</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Misfits, Walk Among Us</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Nurse With Wound, Homotopy to Marie </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">John Cooper Clarke, Zip Style Method</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers, D.T.K. (Live At The Speakeasy)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Jam, The Gift</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Marine Girls, Beach Party</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Sound, All Fall Down</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Pere Ubu, Song of the Bailing Man</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Romeo Void, Benefactor</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">D.O.A., War on 45</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Iron Maiden, The Number of the Beast</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Eddy Grant, Killer on the Rampage</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Tall Dwarfs, Louis Likes His Daily Dip</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Bauhaus, The Sky's Gone Out/Press The Eject and Give Me the Tape</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Cleaners from Venus, Midnight Cleaners/On Any Normal Monday</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">George Clinton, Computer Games</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Psychedelic Furs, Forever Now</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">African Head Charge, Environmental Studies</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Material, One Down</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Duran Duran, Rio</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Culture Club, Kissing to Be Clever</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Bad Brains, Bad Brains</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Descendents, Milo Goes to College</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mission of Burma, Vs.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Brian Eno, Ambient 4: On Land</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Neil Young, Trans</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thomas Dolby, The Golden Age Of Wireless/She Blinded Me With Science</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lou Reed, The Blue Mask</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Flipper, Album Generic Flipper</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">King Sunny Adé and His African Beats, Juju Music</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Yazoo, Upstairs at Eric’s</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Grace Jones, Living My Life</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Madness, The Rise and Fall</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Rick James, Throwin Down</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Go-Go’s, Vacation</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Devo, Oh No! It’s Devo</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Nina Hagen, NunSexMonkRock</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Motorhead, Iron Fist</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Fear, The Record</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Men Without Hats, Rhythm of Youth</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Peter Gabriel, Security</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Bow Wow Wow, I Want Candy</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hunters and Collectors, s/t</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Strange Advance, World’s Away</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dream Syndicate, The Days Of Wine And Roses</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">A Flock of Seagulls, s/t</span></li></ol>BKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262262627667900995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21745137.post-79027208845388947872023-11-26T17:51:00.008-06:002023-11-26T18:24:42.419-06:00SETH'S POSTCARDS<p> <span face="system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRYdsZyFyDBRlDJGxnWCzCiqDGB1HiTAZvRvgvCaCqdW-6_TL9h1SVCsdX0iFNfYfFGr72UWWJXlJWTEHlPLavX2dBM79tH2tdn-FkhPXPV5F9kU0yJX5meNZ4HMydIKoRB7K6WTWoQCflDwHVo4ZADViqvTVCDkIFZkNzLyQP_0cNEhlV_m8Rbg/s1570/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-26%20at%205.28.05%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1432" data-original-width="1570" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRYdsZyFyDBRlDJGxnWCzCiqDGB1HiTAZvRvgvCaCqdW-6_TL9h1SVCsdX0iFNfYfFGr72UWWJXlJWTEHlPLavX2dBM79tH2tdn-FkhPXPV5F9kU0yJX5meNZ4HMydIKoRB7K6WTWoQCflDwHVo4ZADViqvTVCDkIFZkNzLyQP_0cNEhlV_m8Rbg/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-26%20at%205.28.05%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><b><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">Kara and I had fun seeing the new show of Seth art at the <a href="https://ricagallery.com" target="_blank">RICA Gallery</a> here in Guelph last night. We also hung out with some other Seth fans and art buyers after the preview/launch and I was really amazed at the diverse group of people who are into his work. Many have come to him through his "non-comics" paintings and sculptures and his gallery agent Renann Isaacs should take a lot of the credit for turning these folks on to the work and hustling to develop a </span><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">strong </span></b><b><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;"><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a style="cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">local market (although there were collectors from New York and Toronto on hand and I suspect some long-distance/overseas sales as well). I talked to people who are not comics nerds and who couldn't tell an issue of The Comics Journal from Wizard Magazine from Bubbles (in one discussion about contemporary Canadian figurative painters working in a realist style like Kent Monkman and Atilla Lukacs, the idea of studio assistants came up which led to a discussion of comic book assembly-line production techniques, ghost artists, and manga studios, and I had to bite my tongue a bit when the fellow I was talking to said something like, "Is that how Stan Lee drew his comics?"). Wisely, Renann and Seth created a show of small pictures, priced to sell. They are fun little things, very Seth-y, but as the artist admitted, not much thought went into the titles or artist statement (I'm attaching the <a href="https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/guelphs-seth-to-launch-new-art-exhibit-inspired-by-postcards-7846907" target="_blank">local news article</a> for some choice Seth quotes). Which is all to say, a good time was had by all. I think the entire show is going to sell out: most of the paintings were sold by the second night, and the show runs until December 23. I didn't take any pictures, so I'm stealing the photos from Renann's Facebook feed for those who aren't friends with her.</span></span></b><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsGyO2MXR7W5Tinv6Zz9MjPssC1GaR_ixlfg7EL4yB8gogDVEyt9Q1JegSwbj9TXvADl0wzr3kErPq8EbJqHUAdwgrhqNz6EG3WCyDm4icYL2PrVmkg6rNb6p5APGcmP7-9Gfydhqv9VyBsvJN0Aw5WSDTyZUpT3gudx3I9AjKJXans34dh32UEQ/s960/renannseth.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsGyO2MXR7W5Tinv6Zz9MjPssC1GaR_ixlfg7EL4yB8gogDVEyt9Q1JegSwbj9TXvADl0wzr3kErPq8EbJqHUAdwgrhqNz6EG3WCyDm4icYL2PrVmkg6rNb6p5APGcmP7-9Gfydhqv9VyBsvJN0Aw5WSDTyZUpT3gudx3I9AjKJXans34dh32UEQ/s320/renannseth.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Seth and Renann Isaacs (photo credit: Margaret Langton)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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His writing disgusts me even more than the work of early Gerry Conway. His creations seem to be of less than human quality. He is at his best designing a fight sequence, and he knows it. Thus, most of his books become little more than twenty odd pages of villains getting their heads caved in while the hero rants and raves over his cause with no emotion at all. Kirby's characters never seem to come alive. One cannot picture ever seeing an human qualities in Orion. And don't mistake human qualities for qualities found in other Kirby creations (Black Bolt, Silver Surfer, etc.) for they are equally monotonous in their steadfast gazes and intent close-mouthed convictions.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Fourth World 'epics' failed for one reason. None of the books had anything that could rationally be called a uniting force. What they amounted to was a mish-mash of characters who exist for battle, use the Earth as a battleground and seldom say more tha two words without a) punching b) killing c) disintegrating an opponent who is equally mute. </span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Now for some conclusions on this topic. Why do these characters exist? They are Kirby creations and it is a well-known fact that the only way to maintain Jack Kirby as a staff artist is to cater to his wants. One of these wants is total freedom to change, distort, or completely destroy anything in the panel art at DC. He changed Superman into something less than he should be, totally demolished anything it took DC thirty years to build Jimmy Olsen into ... and left both characters when he was through with them. This is somewhat reminiscent of ushering a spoiled child into a room of antique toys, permitting him to smash them at will and guiding him to another room. </span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Now, the almighty King demands that he be granted a team of artists at his California headquarters that he might continue his Fourth World Farce. Whom would he take? Neal Adams? Jim Aparo? Joe Kubert? Certainly sacrificing these gentlemen to the pseudo science fiction slop of the Fourth World means nothing ... if the King is satiated by it. "</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">___</span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">*Dave Sim writing as a 16-year-old fanboy for his friend John Balge's fanzine Comic Art News and Reviews. 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>by BK Munn</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sad news today as we learn that Phyllis Wright died July 9 after a stroke and a short stay in palliative care at Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington, Ontario. Phyllis was the model for the mother in "Doug Wright's Family," the long-running Canadian comic strip drawn by her first husband Doug Wright, and was instrumental in the founding of the Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning. She was a continual and joyful presence at the annual awards ceremonies held in Toronto since 2004.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Phyllis and Doug had three boys, Bill, Jim, and Ken, who all became the models for the boys in the comic strip, which ran from 1948 to 1980. As depicted by Doug, Phyllis was a loving but exasperated suburban housewife, with a stylish pixie haircut and often clad in slacks or mod skirt ensembles. Through her association with the Wright Awards, Phyllis was a living link to the world depicted in the comic strip, generous with her support and time, and generous in sharing her family's memories and archive of artwork and photos, some of which became source material for the massive two-volume Collected Doug Wright compiled by the cartoonist Seth and writer Brad Mackay.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">After Doug Wright's death in 1983, Phyllis remarried, to Derek Thomas (d. 1998), greatly expanding the size of her family.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Cremation and a private interment at Greenwood Cemetery happened earlier this month. There will be a memorial service July 31 at 11am at Port Nelson United Church.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">_____</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://obituaries.thespec.com/obituary/phyllis-grace-leah-wright-nee-sanford-thomas-1088542160">Hamilton Spectaor Obituary</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><br /><p></p>BKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262262627667900995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21745137.post-32303598415034876732023-04-28T15:00:00.009-05:002023-04-28T15:46:16.977-05:00Close Shaves in the Comics, Part 2: Storm Gets a Mohawk!<p><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> b<span style="caret-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">y BK Munn</span></span></p><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Now it can be told: the terrifying tale of talcum, tufts, and trimming that is shaving in the comics!</span></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Let's talk about some of the most famous and important shaves in the history of comics.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); color: white; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWy8AFLqRgV1s4UYc5lurOHr-j0QpSiVlfGitxe9ttJEGu9b-ycuuXTtoI8-q_K45msSxgVXzco9v3N6hkRcRhqqXCsaFP127poVX0Leop7nPO81AM7GpH4uMUc72G1lf_Gm6EPCAMwNC8iDldW-PQmeCwr3W6Emeb6KwLcf8hGS_H_Qax9VlCaQP1Tw/s2201/storm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2201" data-original-width="1440" height="1011" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWy8AFLqRgV1s4UYc5lurOHr-j0QpSiVlfGitxe9ttJEGu9b-ycuuXTtoI8-q_K45msSxgVXzco9v3N6hkRcRhqqXCsaFP127poVX0Leop7nPO81AM7GpH4uMUc72G1lf_Gm6EPCAMwNC8iDldW-PQmeCwr3W6Emeb6KwLcf8hGS_H_Qax9VlCaQP1Tw/w660-h1011/storm.jpg" width="660" /></span></a></div><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">2. Uncanny X-Men #173. Storm gets a mohawk!</span></div><div><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">This was the shave that shook all mutantkind! </span></div><div><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Never had a shave had such shocking ramifications for a character in a superhero comic, let alone a woman character! </span></div><div><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Storm was a groundbreaking character: one of the first prominent characters of African descent in U.S. comics, and one of the most powerful woman characters in the Marvel Universe. Storm was born Ororo Munroe, the daughter of a Kenyan princess and an African-American photographer, and raised on the streets of Harlem and Cairo, Egypt before assuming the mantle of an African weather goddess when her mutant powers manifested. When she is first introduced in comic books, in Giant Size X-Men #1, created by writer Len Wein and artist Dave Cockrum, she is depicted as serene royalty. Her superhero costume includes a cape, and her trademark regal hairstyle is a mane of shockingly white, long, flowing hair, accessorized with a crown-like tiara. Storm quickly established herself as one of the most powerful X-Men as well as a gentle voice of reason, a leader, a teacher, and a mentor to student mutants at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, the secret headquarters of The X-Men. Her beauty, highlighted by the contrast between her black skin and white hair, set her apart from the other, decidedly less-glamorous mutants. </span></div><div><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">But all this changed in 1983's X-Men #173, "To Have and Have Not!"</span></div><div><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">After spending a week in Japan in the company of Wolverine's crazy mutant ninja girlfriend Yukio, Ororo finds herself revelling in the down-and-dirty violence that is Yukio's specialty. After using a lightning bolt to knock out a Yakuza thug, Storm notes, "I have never used my powers to deliberately inflict pain." She concludes, "This madness of yours has infected me ---I welcome it!"</span></div><div><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Cut to a week later, and the arrival of the rest of the X-Men for Wolverine's wedding. Storm makes one of the most dramatic reveals in X-Men history, debuting her all-leather street punk uniform, topped off by a spectacular feathery mohawk hairstyle. Her "new look" is as shocking as a lightning bolt, electrifying her colleagues, and provoking an emotional response.</span></div><div><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">“Your clothes! Your…hair! What have you done?!” gasps young Kitty Pryde, while Professor Xavier speculates privately whether the change is “indicative of a deeper, more serious metamorphosis.”</span></div><div><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The new look does indeed prove to be indicative of big changes in Storm's character. In the issues that follow, she becomes more calculating, aggressive and self-assured, winning a knife-fight against the Morlock leader Callisto and becoming leader of the X-Men even after losing her powers. Originally intended as a joke by the series artist Paul Smith, writer Chris Claremont quickly seized on the implications of the punk look for the character's development.</span></div><div><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The change had an effect on the readership as well, galvanizing interest and making Storm a fan favourite. Through the act of shaving most of her head, Storm became a comic book style icon, her punk look shaking up the staid world of superhero comics and making radical change one of the hallmarks of Reagan 80s Marvel, heralding the new wave of team shake-ups, costume and character redesigns, and universe-rattling crises and secret wars. Her leather uniform also created a template for more "realistic" superhero costuming, especially in film design.</span></div><div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><br /></span></div>BKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262262627667900995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21745137.post-8358698708744966032023-04-25T13:01:00.002-05:002023-04-25T13:09:40.095-05:00Unknown Canadian Cartoonist: Joe Cushner<p><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">by BK Munn </span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Unknown Canadian Cartoonists: Joe Cushner</span></span></p><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">My brother, who lives in B.C., sent me these images from an exhibit at the VISAC Gallery in Trail. The artist Joe Cushner worked for the Cominco Smelter doing safety posters and cartoons. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">The Art of Health and Safety:</span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Joe Cushner, Cominco Staff Artist (1950s – 70s)</span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://www.visacgallery.com/welcome-to-visac?fbclid=IwAR0iLfb6uNHV8Oa31qiIWRbPTF6YjHHmwfeGBLnLtoBJ94CHptXv9sGjzj4" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--blue-link); 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font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black;">Just saw the first Dick Tracy movie (1945) on TCM. The villain is Split-Face, played by the great Mike Mazurki. He's a new creation for the movie, not from the comic strip, created by the screenwriter Eric Taylor, author of many B-movie crime pictures. The Batman villain Two-Face debuted in 1942. In a shocking twist, it looks like Dick Tracy is taking a page from Batman. In another shocking twist, Bob Kane is actually credited with his creation (although Bill Finger of course </span></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: black; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;"><a style="cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: black; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;">wrote the first appearance in Detective Comics #66). In a twist that will surprise nobody, Kane stole the idea for Two-Face from this poster for the 1941 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde starring Spencer Tracy</span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV_UMEWcTSHPHmdsuv_2_HVrIhE28Ofi13xdf_0O8ZMx6OOLN9TqxKeDpNbKb4e6tybmOe1yfNf0LGFCE5sMhfgf3OZ98AeuDRnJ4F1cgSLKKQ7PMWjpegETnvrhgJGacYtnBWhk7DKSLMkNEniV8k-1Ml-hB1s8HRyKNJ4dOXfTRIN5FVaas/s1386/splitface.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1386" data-original-width="817" height="704" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV_UMEWcTSHPHmdsuv_2_HVrIhE28Ofi13xdf_0O8ZMx6OOLN9TqxKeDpNbKb4e6tybmOe1yfNf0LGFCE5sMhfgf3OZ98AeuDRnJ4F1cgSLKKQ7PMWjpegETnvrhgJGacYtnBWhk7DKSLMkNEniV8k-1Ml-hB1s8HRyKNJ4dOXfTRIN5FVaas/w416-h704/splitface.jpg" width="416" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf-HAb-QLDA3SVKK07dj6eLeBSCvCGQaSQqWIfbkLkQzBSjTz7WbPo-PqswxwgwtAtJwettatH9IlcPJeng5RCw6GTuNouLa9qg7TPd-poNkKTJWF5it258ricWg0GVcgJ76dByovDGBL6Kp8Tbu3MTg7KkImjfqahzITmRmefg6Tg0y9EmRk/s1222/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-10%20at%209.32.34%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1222" data-original-width="862" height="585" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf-HAb-QLDA3SVKK07dj6eLeBSCvCGQaSQqWIfbkLkQzBSjTz7WbPo-PqswxwgwtAtJwettatH9IlcPJeng5RCw6GTuNouLa9qg7TPd-poNkKTJWF5it258ricWg0GVcgJ76dByovDGBL6Kp8Tbu3MTg7KkImjfqahzITmRmefg6Tg0y9EmRk/w413-h585/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-10%20at%209.32.34%20PM.png" width="413" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBZo-BNBAQlOdsKpcwkGTikrOjTSZK7ZIRGqwU66thPZqSQPuUqOz7bfeOOMPxozyTewjQIlKEA1T29CQ8Fg7UAGS6NXF1Dmj1rVFGd56TkFsG2Trc2qzNAyXyuybcRMuM_1DWTnv3Ast_f1SCZZgvD2Dvb5gP6L6FVS1E55xpjjaikOBHIio/s580/hyde.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="580" height="387" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBZo-BNBAQlOdsKpcwkGTikrOjTSZK7ZIRGqwU66thPZqSQPuUqOz7bfeOOMPxozyTewjQIlKEA1T29CQ8Fg7UAGS6NXF1Dmj1rVFGd56TkFsG2Trc2qzNAyXyuybcRMuM_1DWTnv3Ast_f1SCZZgvD2Dvb5gP6L6FVS1E55xpjjaikOBHIio/w499-h387/hyde.jpg" width="499" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjktlgs8yyaYOhtFoNm46LBhHUc34LnXH_RFLGITYwW83EW_lSF0LjwTjBF6m5v9zcgiP9ajANK8-wXPabgLOnKgr1kEpX-XP3wL5UW3pp5i6gRa1kJe0Uw7aCQy-sO_ZXcorUI4O6Xx0gaPwtE2aTkazuOP6qi-FVtZ-VFpXk7zS4p7VLyTOI/s809/Mike_Mazurki_in_Dick_Tracy_(1945).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="809" data-original-width="800" height="579" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjktlgs8yyaYOhtFoNm46LBhHUc34LnXH_RFLGITYwW83EW_lSF0LjwTjBF6m5v9zcgiP9ajANK8-wXPabgLOnKgr1kEpX-XP3wL5UW3pp5i6gRa1kJe0Uw7aCQy-sO_ZXcorUI4O6Xx0gaPwtE2aTkazuOP6qi-FVtZ-VFpXk7zS4p7VLyTOI/w572-h579/Mike_Mazurki_in_Dick_Tracy_(1945).jpg" width="572" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcD3BOFPoAPiD3e5PftPQbDvtLYjxDgiEAYDoCyFp5Xi2QWftpF5J5ZM_ryrWIJRbyFZNgKwimJX8rkvEcA1qWfaJwB0A-3EbFoKecoLMX8G99MJr4W6lDixiRJgm88Ka0yGHNyYo83jyP9hawYto275Mqoc_wWe4qgIaODR-scY1d7wA8Pv4/s1343/dick.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1076" data-original-width="1343" height="523" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcD3BOFPoAPiD3e5PftPQbDvtLYjxDgiEAYDoCyFp5Xi2QWftpF5J5ZM_ryrWIJRbyFZNgKwimJX8rkvEcA1qWfaJwB0A-3EbFoKecoLMX8G99MJr4W6lDixiRJgm88Ka0yGHNyYo83jyP9hawYto275Mqoc_wWe4qgIaODR-scY1d7wA8Pv4/w653-h523/dick.jpg" width="653" /></a></div><p></p>
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9jg0bp_kiQ8" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>BKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262262627667900995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21745137.post-53316269897411757752023-01-15T13:57:00.002-06:002023-01-15T13:58:11.631-06:00THE FIRST COMICS ACADEMIC IN FILM? SORRELL BOOKE IN "BYE BYE BRAVERMAN"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-aI0aGqMUcFwx_g4CxSRLyVEihU3UjYdbObURUilqySLaXfNL2hDJHiR4nOomQiHFWVH8Me4dME7hjovKjEw6NN034v1grdrlWy_5V9bDtfzbWtg9geeudeg4i04HdYs7s4YYf8TRTHiP-VzV0klFpssPB4dDsnxsU_go1OAdJC_DP1tv77Q/s1196/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%202.54.43%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1194" data-original-width="1196" height="602" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-aI0aGqMUcFwx_g4CxSRLyVEihU3UjYdbObURUilqySLaXfNL2hDJHiR4nOomQiHFWVH8Me4dME7hjovKjEw6NN034v1grdrlWy_5V9bDtfzbWtg9geeudeg4i04HdYs7s4YYf8TRTHiP-VzV0klFpssPB4dDsnxsU_go1OAdJC_DP1tv77Q/w604-h602/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-15%20at%202.54.43%20PM.png" width="604" /></a></div><br /><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>by BK MUNN</b></span></p><p><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><b style="background-color: black;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is this the first comics academic in film? Sorrell Booke as Holly Levine in "Bye Bye Braverman" (1968, d. Sidney Lumet). In the film, about four writers trying to find their friend's funeral in Brooklyn, Holly announces that he will soon be teaching a course on pop culture, called "From Little Nemo to L'il Abner". This news invites incredulity from his fellow intellectuals, who proceed to quiz him on his comic strip knowledge, asking trivia questions about Little Annie </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a style="cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rooney, Winnie Winkle, The Gumps, Orphan Annie, and Don Winslow of the Navy. Holly passes with flying colours, only getting hung up on the name of the dunce character in The Rinkydinks gang (Denny Dimwit). The film has many other comics references, including mentions of Dick Tracy, Skeezix, Blondie, and Bringing Up Father. Holly has a pop art painting of The Phantom in his apartment, and a Sunday of Irwin Hasen's Dondi is glimpsed at one point. It's a charming comedy in the form of a Joycean odyssey, based on the book "To An Early Grave" by Wallace Markfield (aka "The James Joyce of Brighton Beach").</span></b></span></p><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><b style="background-color: black;">In real life, Sorrell Booke (1930-1994) was a multilingual polymath, known for his character roles in hundreds of films and television shows. Ironically, he is best known for playing the villainous Boss Hogg on "The Dukes of Hazzard" tv series from 1979 to 1985.</b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><b style="background-color: black;"><br /></b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><b style="background-color: black;">I can't think of many other comics academics in film. Although the study of comic books is mentioned in the novel White Noise, I don't think this was carried over to the recent adaptation. Are there any others?</b></span></div>BKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262262627667900995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21745137.post-14368845143667758632022-11-12T12:45:00.002-06:002022-11-12T12:58:58.772-06:00PIERRE FOURNIER, 1949-2022: Creator of Capitaine Kébec and Red Ketchup comics<p><br /><b><br /></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqi9qvjkY7g0mNv9VO-OzO-KCpRjLUFeYJPloF1E1ylkacz9Ls6n4Ulc-o4BDhYfyJ4_SGyb5YvGZIdV5n-ChX30-TGlxf7d4iL2Gltii7p_f5QUPYK5epVsix86HCPOLuuKJUIxlIlBuWPvG9DRNORYQ3mo4sA0rzo-UaD7u0rVz2Lg1UfwI/s1347/capitaine-kebec-1-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1347" data-original-width="919" height="625" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqi9qvjkY7g0mNv9VO-OzO-KCpRjLUFeYJPloF1E1ylkacz9Ls6n4Ulc-o4BDhYfyJ4_SGyb5YvGZIdV5n-ChX30-TGlxf7d4iL2Gltii7p_f5QUPYK5epVsix86HCPOLuuKJUIxlIlBuWPvG9DRNORYQ3mo4sA0rzo-UaD7u0rVz2Lg1UfwI/w426-h625/capitaine-kebec-1-1.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><p></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Obituary by BK Munn</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Pierre Fournier, the iconoclastic Quebec cartoonist, died November 11 of complications arising from Lewy body dementia. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Fournier was at the vanguard of Québécois artists who began making funny, political French-language comics in the 1960s and 1970s. He self-published the groundbreaking superhero satire <b style="font-style: italic;">Les Aventures du Capitaine Kébec </b>and went on to transform the character into a sort of mascot for the francophone comics community, with a a comics-themed tv show, "Les Amis du Capitaine Kébec", as well as more comics and strips. Fournier was among the first contributors to the humour magazine Croc, and introduced another long-running character, <b><i>Michel Risque</i></b>, in its pages in 1979. Co-created with artist Réal Godbout, the violent adventure comics parody and its spin-off, <b><i>Red Ketchu</i></b>p, were intermittently-published in a variety of formats over the following decades (recently reissued in a series of graphic novels by La Pasteque). A Red Ketchup <a href="https://youtu.be/LPvErD8YB0A">animated cartoon series</a> is set to debut in 2023.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Outside of Croc, Fournier also contributed to the magazine Titanic and the Quebec edition of Mad. He edited his own short-lived humour magazine Anormal in 1991, and was an editor and art director for Matrix Comics. His contributions to comics were recognized with the inaugural Albert Chartier Award and the induction into the Joe Shuster Awards hall of fame in 2008.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">As well as writing for film and television, Fournier organized exhibits about the history of Quebec bande dessinée beginning in the 1970s and was something of a comics, science fiction and horror pop culture historian, running a well-regarded blog, <a href="https://frankensteinia.blogspot.com">Frankensteinia</a>, about aspects of the Frankenstein mythos for many years.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Fournier suffered from a lengthy illness and had been in long-term care since February. His death was confirmed by friends and family through Fournier's page on Facebook.</span></p><p><br /></p>BKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262262627667900995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21745137.post-30316872394038153682022-10-11T13:47:00.004-05:002022-10-11T13:48:44.929-05:00First Doug Wright's Family in The Canadian, 1967<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdkraquQb8m7SwnkMtc1g_e2Dfa-4KfPfq1AsyjUjHsbeZW_J-H1xnX-UW2q1HtiOpqeFYLvDJiHrdsaqYu0d38_OIi8zOKG0i7RAKiLW4n4-0y4-ClqxcGNyc-lb8uMI2pdI-I4vmLGMeGUTNmBYrJNi0vc6p6aXy4wh3bBuCOvwOrhlTVco/s2046/IMG_0770%202.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2046" data-original-width="1758" height="691" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdkraquQb8m7SwnkMtc1g_e2Dfa-4KfPfq1AsyjUjHsbeZW_J-H1xnX-UW2q1HtiOpqeFYLvDJiHrdsaqYu0d38_OIi8zOKG0i7RAKiLW4n4-0y4-ClqxcGNyc-lb8uMI2pdI-I4vmLGMeGUTNmBYrJNi0vc6p6aXy4wh3bBuCOvwOrhlTVco/w594-h691/IMG_0770%202.JPG" width="594" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;">Originally published in the nationally syndicated magazine <i>Weekend</i> (originating in the <i>Montreal Standard</i> but included as an insert in different papers across the country), the comic strip "Doug Wright's Family" moved to upstart competitor <i>The Canadian</i> in 1967. Here's the first strip from <i>The Canadian</i>, printed with a short article trumpeting their new acquisition, with a great photo of Doug Wright, pictured with his eldest son. Both magazines were general interest </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;"><a style="cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;">publications with features for the whole family, from political news, to sports, fashion, celebrity profiles, and weird Cold War fantasies like the one pictured here. 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdPYMy1_wiWO_wFtasOTe0-s66DiyZlT53TnEP53WU-xP4RQRAET70HcnSfyOXXq_UkRynpnWO-y0e4rZbZTPoDb7t0fvbBqY_EZ2HJsZ-ar-vHm9XClhkRtpoXJf-7dAbq09IFnjzD0uBUNNDcpMgSbYwOhO52j2uTL3cwh7O6qQXUyZ9hrw/s1374/hand.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1374" data-original-width="1000" height="794" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdPYMy1_wiWO_wFtasOTe0-s66DiyZlT53TnEP53WU-xP4RQRAET70HcnSfyOXXq_UkRynpnWO-y0e4rZbZTPoDb7t0fvbBqY_EZ2HJsZ-ar-vHm9XClhkRtpoXJf-7dAbq09IFnjzD0uBUNNDcpMgSbYwOhO52j2uTL3cwh7O6qQXUyZ9hrw/w578-h794/hand.jpg" width="578" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">The Devil's Hand aka Carnival of Sinners aka La Main du Diable (1943), directed by Maurice Tourneur.</span></b></span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Charming fantasy about a bohemian artist who buys a "Monkey's Paw" totem and makes a Faustian bargain for fame, love, and riches. The hero is pursued by a cute little devil who dresses and thinks like an accountant (or an SS agent), and there are some impressive spooky-looking shots and sequences. A cute satire on bourgeois art and commerce, directed by Jacques Tourneur's <a style="cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>father! Made under German occupation, it's very French, very modern, and I've read it characterized as an anti-Nazi Resistance allegory.</span></b></div></div>BKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262262627667900995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21745137.post-48032080559116413752022-10-05T13:23:00.006-05:002022-10-05T13:59:27.194-05:00GUELPH FASHION DESIGNER: JACK PURCELL<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmwXpeEPWg7SbuJCA0T6vmxEBuTGA6PVYjawJl3mq3uC6XCXZEziA84NeM4Ci60LKCjYk4wKq1l8-GwIZIgnII4neIB1NVRYdaXlEUNPHRjdp5WANXiaLc0wAF_AXdkXLZ4Mi2bCM19-VhB0XxYp8OycUB5MOpf3cmZManWQ94XsLa6GJGqTE/s639/Jackpurcelllogo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="639" height="415" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmwXpeEPWg7SbuJCA0T6vmxEBuTGA6PVYjawJl3mq3uC6XCXZEziA84NeM4Ci60LKCjYk4wKq1l8-GwIZIgnII4neIB1NVRYdaXlEUNPHRjdp5WANXiaLc0wAF_AXdkXLZ4Mi2bCM19-VhB0XxYp8OycUB5MOpf3cmZManWQ94XsLa6GJGqTE/w590-h415/Jackpurcelllogo.jpg" width="590" /></a></div><br /><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The most famous fashion brand to come out of Guelph may be the iconic Jack Purcell sneaker. Born in Guelph, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Purcell">Jack Purcell</a> was the World Badminton Champion in the 1920s and 1930s, and a global celebrity. In 1935, he designed a badminton shoe for rubber company BF Goodrich's PF Flyers shoe brand. The distinctive Purcell "smile" shoes became *THE* shoe for all tennis and badminton players for the next 50 years. In 1972, Converse purchased the brand, and they are <a href="https://www.converse.com/shop/jack-purcell-shoes">still made today</a>, along with athletic wear and street wear accessories that carry the Purcell logo.</span></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhFFTsA7BbcIsSrEsFz5Ubtc5YYrci4ULGau-a9agQw5QGykSDOEFi57trj6sFR6StnptDvoNpc2YsSdm8kYoQYsejnv0b2-43K4lFwKBUijuoptjIvOwpIxfBIueGejD0D5iz7j8CZEGEEz4ARFxgSqdmQ_zOLxQxlCm_iP8Dl33NLZWbIGc/s400/Champion_1982_purcell.jpg" style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="264" data-original-width="400" height="377" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhFFTsA7BbcIsSrEsFz5Ubtc5YYrci4ULGau-a9agQw5QGykSDOEFi57trj6sFR6StnptDvoNpc2YsSdm8kYoQYsejnv0b2-43K4lFwKBUijuoptjIvOwpIxfBIueGejD0D5iz7j8CZEGEEz4ARFxgSqdmQ_zOLxQxlCm_iP8Dl33NLZWbIGc/w571-h377/Champion_1982_purcell.jpg" width="571" /></a></div><p></p><b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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William Klein (1926-2022), the expatriate American painter, photographer, and film director who created one of the more notable superhero films of the 1960s, <i>Mr. Freedom</i>. Known for his groundbreaking and award-winning street and fashion photography, the New York-born Klein spent most of his adult life in France, where he also directed tv commercials. <i>Mr. Freedom</i> is an absurdist satire on superheroes and U.S. imperialism that stars another expat, John Abbey, as the titular hero, a fascistic brute who is a clear predecessor to comic book characters like Judge Dredd, Marshall Law, and The Comedian. </b></span></p><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><b style="background-color: #444444;">The plot of the film has Dr. Freedom (Donald Pleasance) sending Mr. Freedom to France to stop the slide of the "crybaby" French culture into Communism and to investigate the death of French superhero Capt. Formidable (Yves Montand). The film was shot in France with mostly French actors (including Serge Gainsburg and the sublime Delphine Seyrig), although everyone speaks only English throughout. The film has many of the hallmarks of 1960s action and spy films (James Bond and its imitators) but despite it's dumb sub-Get Smart/Batman style plot and Saturday morning/comic book dialogue, it has many striking images and scenes, all shot in a primary colour, pop art style. Director Klein was knowledgeable about comics (he mentions his familiarity with Krazy Kat in one interview I've seen), and also produced a fumetti version of <i>Mr. Freedom</i> using stills from the film to promote it, pictured here. Famously, it has been called “conceivably the most anti-American movie ever made.” It's a beautiful thing!</b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><b style="background-color: #444444;"><br /></b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYB3P3AZ8dEtgBvHKcTxivz66Be-sQ3v9gFJD_lQ_fpFv8N_DQy-jYr3m2OMRrcygFZbOHCgwHaVHqD2OQP0G0pwo4ROazPUl2lYHzQEzjs6FAY3RAXHXLGAnOHb73J89fnzBZScvi0uUljry7ZvchcgXq9Va9AzG6Kz5sK7QDYTOi7JXLvfw/s2716/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-15%20at%206.59.20%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1574" data-original-width="2716" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYB3P3AZ8dEtgBvHKcTxivz66Be-sQ3v9gFJD_lQ_fpFv8N_DQy-jYr3m2OMRrcygFZbOHCgwHaVHqD2OQP0G0pwo4ROazPUl2lYHzQEzjs6FAY3RAXHXLGAnOHb73J89fnzBZScvi0uUljry7ZvchcgXq9Va9AzG6Kz5sK7QDYTOi7JXLvfw/s320/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-15%20at%206.59.20%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1zZr4-UaJms" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>BKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262262627667900995noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21745137.post-72730521575755083142022-01-09T15:34:00.004-06:002023-03-05T12:35:25.834-06:00Allen Baron: Director and 1950s Comic Book Artist<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> by BK Munn</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>I recently had the pleasure of watching <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98LLczbSi2A">Blast of Silence</a>, the brutal, existential 1961 film noir written and directed by and starring Allen Baron. Baron was born in Brooklyn and fell into making movies after a hardscrabble early life that included stints in the U.S. Navy, driving a taxi and working in the comic book industry of the 1950s. The story of the guerrilla production of Blast of Silence, shot on the streets of NYC without permits and with equipment "liberated" from Castro's Cuba, is the stuff of legend and makes for <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Blast-Silence-Memoir-Allen-Baron/dp/0615839444">interesting reading</a>. Baron went on to Hollywood and became a well-known tv director. Genre and comic fans may be interested in work he did on some science-fiction and fantasy themed shows like Kolchak the Night Stalker (he also directed more mundane fare like Barney Miller and The Brady Bunch), and he was nominated for a Hugo Award for the 1969 pilot episode of the short-lived The Immortal tv series. But it's his short stint as a comic book artist in the 1950s, directly preceding his first film, that I was curious about. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A scene in Blast of Silence seems semi-autobiographical: when the ruthless antisocial assassin played by Baron meets a chum from his days in an orphanage, the friend tells a story about getting out of the army, going to art school, and getting a career in commercial art. This is the same path followed by Baron in real life. It looks like he did a batch of romance comics for Lev Gleason and at least one horror story for ACG, the haunting "Bride of the Swamp Monster" in Forbidden Worlds #9 from 1952. 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margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sometimes a film just speaks to you, you know? Records is Alan Zweig’s sequel and self-described “bookend” to his legendary 2000 documentary Vinyl. In that first film, part of Zweig’s curmudgeonly “Mirror Trilogy” in which he turns the camera on himself at the same time as he projects his anxieties and foibles onto his subjects, looking for clues to his own loneliness and depression, Zweig managed to find some of the worst examples of record collectors. Alongside collecting heroes like Harvey Pekar, Don McKellar, and Jello Biafra, Zweig dredged up a gaggle of misfits with various personal issues and hoarding tendencies, almost uniformly single men, who shared his conflicted attitudes about collecting and seemed to be engaged in filling an inner void with the habitual accumulation of records. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In this new film, Zweig is seemingly in a much better space, both mentally and in terms of physical location. Twenty years later, he’s traded in his dark, rat-infested apartment for a bright, sun-dappled house in a middle-class Toronto neighbourhood. The aimlessness and self-recrimination of his earlier film(s) has been replaced with some semblance of joy and contentedness; Zweig’s young daughter appears off-camera in the film and the sense we get is she is key to this newfound solidity and balance. His record-collecting has changed, too. Instead of binging and purging indiscriminately, he now seems more focused on buying records for enjoyment, living with some records for only a short time while keeping a core collection that brings him happiness. Likewise, the bulk of collectors he interviews come across as well-adjusted and artistically-inclined music lovers who collect records as an outgrowth of that passion. Many of his subjects use music and collecting in a wholesomely self-directed, therapeutic manner, and several seem to have found their collecting central to long-term relationships and romance. The climax of the film focuses on a happy hetero couple that have that rare thing, a MERGED record collection (gasp!) and, pointedly, two healthy-looking straw-haired tykes who share their parents’ love of tastefully obscure vinyl.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The film is full of stimulating insights into the collector mentality, tempered with Zweig’s patented wry humour. Where the original film took place at the tail-end of vinyl’s long reign as the world’s primary music format, where the sadsack collectors on display seemed like relics of another age, pathetically hanging on to a dead medium, Records comes to us in the middle of the much-touted vinyl resurgence and a newly-thriving industry of deluxe reissues of classic albums and boutique record stores. In a world where you can find a plethora of documentaries about record shops and watch tens of thousands of Youtube videos of record collectors showing off their latest finds, Zweig’s new film nevertheless serves as a timely coda to that bygone era and a fresh way to think about our obsession with “things”. For myself, Zweig’s original film was less a cautionary tale and more of an inspiration. As a confirmed collector from my early years, his exploration of the collector psyche and his Quixotic, haunted quest for the Louvin Brothers’ “Satan is Real” mirrored my own conflicted approach to my vast accumulation of stuff. My wife and I now co-own a record store and have watched Vinyl many times over the years to the point its crusty characters seem like old friends and yes, we also have a large merged record collection (full disclosure: we have met and are on friendly terms with several people in this new documentary and have actually sold at least one record to the director. Zweig had even asked Kara to be in Records, but she demurred since the prospect of having a strange film crew in our tiny home during the pre-vaccine days of the Covid-19 Pandemic did not excite us). The callbacks and self-referential aspects of this new film make it seem like the continuation of a conversation begun two decades ago (these are our people!) and anyone who enjoyed Vinyl or is just curious about why someone might line the walls of their house with thousands of pounds of cardboard-jacketed plastic discs in the era of streaming and digital will find Records a satisfying, and maybe even comforting, experience.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now streaming on TVO:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.tvo.org/video/documentaries/records</span></p></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />BKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262262627667900995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21745137.post-12848054440094453472021-11-11T17:45:00.008-06:002021-11-11T17:47:00.061-06:00Funky is 50!<p><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: verdana;">50 years ago today, the first appearance of Funky Flashman. Funky was Jack Kirby's thinly-veiled parody of his old boss Stan Lee. Kirby had just spent a decade working under Lee at Marvel Comics, having Lee take the writing pay and credit for all the characters and stories Kirby wrote and drew. Before Kirby started working for Lee, Lee was known, if he was known at all, for writing a handful of humour titles at his cousin's comic book company. After Kirby arrived, Lee began applying his gift for chatty dialogue and self-promotion to the line of superhero comics Kirby created, and the rest is history. When Kirby left Marvel to create his New Gods series of titles for DC in 1970, he took with him 10 years of resentment that he poured into the darkly humourous portrait of Funky and Funky's manservant House Roy, a parody of Stan Lee's real life assistant (and current Stan Lee apologist and hagiographer) Roy Thomas. Kirby only used the character once, but the nicknames stuck among fans and comics historians, and other creators revived Funky, off and on, most notably for the aptly-named Secret Society of Supervillains later in the 1970s. Panels from Mr. Miracle #6, published November 11, 1971, written and drawn by Jack Kirby.</span></b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFdR50yUmMdpHkfNHm08F6aLq5wHcjkemuFeXcCNyXbJfjUZB-4fTAB7v80cxn3w_fXkyFHuBchuIzD1FtBF54uDGY_w7ut1MGuoUINDH4iAVTR0QDrIX9FyH3pm2s2aexkT8KcA/s1644/Screen+Shot+2021-11-11+at+4.41.49+AM.png" style="background-color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1644" data-original-width="1586" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFdR50yUmMdpHkfNHm08F6aLq5wHcjkemuFeXcCNyXbJfjUZB-4fTAB7v80cxn3w_fXkyFHuBchuIzD1FtBF54uDGY_w7ut1MGuoUINDH4iAVTR0QDrIX9FyH3pm2s2aexkT8KcA/s320/Screen+Shot+2021-11-11+at+4.41.49+AM.png" width="309" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv-fcN-xG0uHBeUWIaFOHyGMP9S7PRJ3Y-b4KP7vdkTcaNpg7Mo_x7q2zRGNg6qQQx9J1EOB6Iecn3uI-lYcmOQYDfvRwIEITjB4MNZyITa88Yf96jfQbrERsWXDKF09XXS0ScDA/s1082/Screen+Shot+2021-11-11+at+5.14.05+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg40d120DQJOFxg0dIcsQBKmoxKImRxiN6q6knN3q_Jf8auI3DPScSjFtKE07P3OJVWCDqCltGXuGUKBHkC0K8X-DRoV4a8p12sebKm7BwdQsnCbrKt2FSW5o2uMvctLvJidkQ3qQ/s1501/wain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1501" data-original-width="1000" height="707" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg40d120DQJOFxg0dIcsQBKmoxKImRxiN6q6knN3q_Jf8auI3DPScSjFtKE07P3OJVWCDqCltGXuGUKBHkC0K8X-DRoV4a8p12sebKm7BwdQsnCbrKt2FSW5o2uMvctLvJidkQ3qQ/w471-h707/wain.jpg" width="471" /></a></div><br /><h2 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021), directed by Will Sharpe.</span></h2><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">An Emotional Portrait of the Superstar Cartoonist</span></h3><div><b><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">by BK Munn</span></b></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">There aren't many serious films about cartoonists, are there? My wife and I have been lifelong admirers of the delightful cat art of Louis Wain, collecting old postcards and children’s books with his images for decades now, so it was a no-brainer that we would rush to see this film, despite our general antipathy towards biopics in general, and twee British artist biopics in particular. I have to say, though, contrary to our misgivings, the film proved to be a moving chronicle of Wain’s unique hardscrabble life and transformation into the superstar cartoonist of Victorian England, his efforts as the sole supporter of a household of five precocious sisters and their mother, his generally tragic circumstances, and his later descent into a form of madness. We were teary-eyed through much of it. Benedict Cumberbatch continues his streak of portraying lovable British eccentrics and geniuses, but I found I could forget about his fame and get lost in his character here. Claire Foy is also affecting as Wain’s wife Emily. It’s a bit too precious at times for what is essentially a tragedy, but the film’s overarching “life is beautiful and silly” theme is solid and quite in keeping with the nature of Wain’s art. </span></div><p><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">_____</span></p><p><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">We saw the film after a day browsing antique shops (we bought an old British children’s annual (the 1923 Pip and Squeak) with some cat cartoons, although none by Wain. The world really could use a collection of Wain's comic strips, like those he did for Hearst's Journal-American and associated papers.</span></p><p><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, .SFNSText-Regular, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSvvkLZ5uVi2rSE_3GAZrqqKQAVaRa_vNjQ-K80vM9MtOaZ_L9eJRT-TqdKES9bgZvr9hZRJgWmzIrtwDp0RnhxB0P-ag94h6ceksmmFPaG3fN7Ckg8NrPI3_tYGGUVJa_TIG5rQ/s1100/waincatstrip.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1100" data-original-width="825" height="908" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSvvkLZ5uVi2rSE_3GAZrqqKQAVaRa_vNjQ-K80vM9MtOaZ_L9eJRT-TqdKES9bgZvr9hZRJgWmzIrtwDp0RnhxB0P-ag94h6ceksmmFPaG3fN7Ckg8NrPI3_tYGGUVJa_TIG5rQ/w681-h908/waincatstrip.jpg" width="681" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p>BKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262262627667900995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21745137.post-6970202163953636282021-08-28T16:24:00.007-05:002024-02-26T23:56:38.617-06:00The Best Records of 1986<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVOCRXne7AeGjsdqd4p4gndDZaHsIAq2ZbpupI-o2YM7GPnyHu_oDiemewXcibIZybAa8mGl5oCfTjgMRvIBo61a81wnvuGb1t8fXcTpwZJj6ZRbkfWQ_QI4G-0QwxuD-wyzt0pA/s603/239859772_4522834427761069_5620120465411442277_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="603" data-original-width="599" height="509" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVOCRXne7AeGjsdqd4p4gndDZaHsIAq2ZbpupI-o2YM7GPnyHu_oDiemewXcibIZybAa8mGl5oCfTjgMRvIBo61a81wnvuGb1t8fXcTpwZJj6ZRbkfWQ_QI4G-0QwxuD-wyzt0pA/w506-h509/239859772_4522834427761069_5620120465411442277_n.jpeg" width="506" /></a></span></div><b style="font-family: verdana;"><p><b style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></p>by BK Munn</b><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>So by popular demand, here’s my list of the Best Albums of 1986! Of course, I think they are objectively the best as well as being favourites --my taste is that good! Nostalgia plays a part in this list, I’m sure, but I discovered large chunks of the records here long after the 80s ended. Some of the records I listened to hundreds of times in 1986 and since. Some I discovered for the first time last week. The ranking is based on not just how good the record is, but also how likely I am to listen to it again and/or how tired I am of the record. The list reflects my stunted taste for dumb, post-punk, and garage-flavoured sounds, and really gives a wide berth to most of the bestselling discs of the day. There are innovative pop and rock records from 1986 that were massive crossover hits and are considered classics by huge swaths of the population but I am heartily sick of them (and was likely sick of them in 1986, so don’t come at me with your Paul Simons and Peter Gabriels, etc). There are a few cheats, and a few anachronisms, mostly in the anthology/compilation category, but most of the stuff here was actually released in 1986 for the first time (it’s largely confined to Anglophonia as well, meaning UK/USA/Canada, so no South Africa, no Zimbabwe, no Japan). What else is not on this list? There are only a handful of country-adjacent records here and I really dropped the ball in the 1986 reggae department. Jazz? I’m a dilettante. Miles released “Tutu” in 1986, and it is a *very* 80s-sounding record. Is it even in the top 40 Miles records? I really don’t know. Not for me. John Zorn is on the list because he’s really more of a punk, isn’t he? And because I feel I could actually listen to those records again at some point. What else did I miss, jazz-wise? A bunch of fusion-y and synth-y noodly stuff it sounds like, for the most part. I mean, let me know how wrong I am. When I’m not blasting angry punk I do sometimes listen to *some* of the more refined and civilized things. Tony Bennett released one of his better comeback albums in 1986, and it’s hard to find a bad Tony Bennett album, period, but should it be on this list? (Ditto the great Mel Torme!) What else? Soundtracks? Blue Velvet and The Mission are standouts, but I would rather rewatch the films, honestly. Laurie Anderson’s is a soundtrack that functions as a stand-alone album to me, and is on the list. No orchestral music, generally. This is a rockist’s rock list!</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>1. The Fall, Bend Sinister</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>2. Run-DMC, Raising Hell</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>3. Various, Back From the Grave Vol 3 + 4</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>4. Deja Voodoo, Swamp of Love</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>5. Gruesomes, Tyrants of Teen Trash</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>6. Various, It Came from Canada 2</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>7. Sonic Youth, Evol</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>8. Husker Du, Candy Apple Grey</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>9. Public Image Ltd, Album</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>10. Schoolly D, Schoolly D</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>11. Shop Assistants, Shop Assistants</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>12. Butthole Surfers, Rembrandt Pussyhorse</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>13. Dead Kennedys, Bedtime for Democracy</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>14. Jazz Butcher, Distressed Gentlefolk (tie)</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>14. Hasil Adkins, Out to Hunch (tie)</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>15. Bad Brains, I Against I</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>16. Suicide, Ghost Riders</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>17. Ministry, Twitch</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>18. The Smiths, The Queen is Dead</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>19. XTC, Skylarking</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>20. Throwing Muses, Throwing Muses</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>21. R.E.M., Life’s Rich Pageant</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>22. Thee Mighty Caesars, Thee Caesars of Trash</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>23. Cramps, A Date with Elvis</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>24. New Order, Brotherhood</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>25. Big Black, Atomizer</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>26. Cocteau Twins, Victorialand</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>27. Talking Heads, True Stories</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>28. Laurie Anderson, Home of the Brave</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>29. Billy Bragg, Talking With The Taxman About Poetry </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>30. Camper Van Beethoven, Camper Van Beethoven</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>31. Jr. Gone Wild, More Pop Less Art</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>32. Big Audio Dynamite, No. 10 Upping St.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>33. Felt, Forever Breathes the Lonely Word</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>34. Spaceman 3, Sound of Confusion</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>35. The Housemartins, London 0 Hull 4</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>36. The Feelies, The Good Earth</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>37. Eugene Chadbourne, Corpses Of Foreign War</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>38. The Clean, Compilation</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>39. Dag Nasty, Can I Say</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>40. Descendents, Enjoy</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>41. The Leaving Trains, Kill Tunes</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>42. Nikki Sudden And The Jacobites, Texas/</b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">The Last Bandits in the World</b></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">43. The Pandoras, Stop Pretending</b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>44. Salt n Pepa, Hot Cool and Vicious</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>45. Lyres, Lyres Lyres</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>46. Kool Moe Dee, s/t</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>47. Didjits, Fizzjob</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>48. John Zorn, The Big Gundown</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>49. This Mortal Coil, Filigree And Shadow</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>50. Ramones, Animal Boy</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>51. Razor, Malicious Intent</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>52. Robyn Hitchcock And The Egyptians, Element Of Light </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>53. Motorhead, Orgasmatron</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>54. Skinny Puppy, Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>55. Lou Reed, Mistrial</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>56. Nick Cave, Kicking Against the Pricks</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>57. Nick Cave, Your Funeral My Trial</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>58. Delmonas, The Delmonas 5</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>59. Violent Femmes, The Blind Leading The Naked </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>60. Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force, Planet Rock: The Album</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>61. Youth of Today, Break Down the Walls</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>62. Killing Joke, Brighter Than A Thousand Suns </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>63. Swans, Holy Money</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>64. Iggy Pop, Blah Blah Blah</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>65. Go-Betweens, Liberty Belle And The Black Diamond Express </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>66. The Flaming Lips, Hear It Is</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>67. Siouxsie and the Banshees, Tinderbox</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>68. Ray Condo And His Hardrock Goners, Crazy Date</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>69. Art of Noise, In Visible Silence</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>70. Meat Puppets, Out My Way</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>71. Velvet Underground, Another VU</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>72. The No Comprendo, Les Rita Mitsouko</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>73. fIREHOSE, Ragin', Full-On </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>74. Dayglo Abortions, Feed Us A Fetus</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>75. NoMeansNo, Sex Mad</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>75. Revolting Cocks, Big Sexy Land</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>77. Prince, Parade</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>78. Stetsasonic, On Fire</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>79. Various, C86 </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>80. Beastie Boys, Licensed to Ill</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>81. Stan Ridgway, The Big Heat</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>82. John Zorn, Cobra</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>83. The Chameleons, Strange Times</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>84. The Smithereens, Especially For You</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>85. Cowboy Junkies, Whites Off Earth Now!!</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>86. Talk Talk, The Colour of Spring</b></span></p>BKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262262627667900995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21745137.post-91284083763903575592021-08-26T15:38:00.001-05:002021-08-26T15:38:08.371-05:00Canadian Roller Derby, 1971<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNGn065nnNpMSK07yFPZTfvKTlQjhRCnmWgoniNfnfqSYfcA7Ak3YLaWl9gkIQ7KYry2_x-m9GjHq4mk7G8X-ov6eJhghOl3hwchlIGXAeHV8NobdsbOEt-6j3iZHLrjrB9sUVsg/s2048/IMG_0708.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1693" height="668" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNGn065nnNpMSK07yFPZTfvKTlQjhRCnmWgoniNfnfqSYfcA7Ak3YLaWl9gkIQ7KYry2_x-m9GjHq4mk7G8X-ov6eJhghOl3hwchlIGXAeHV8NobdsbOEt-6j3iZHLrjrB9sUVsg/w553-h668/IMG_0708.jpg" width="553" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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DOUG WRIGHT'S 1967 CAR-TOONS<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Some CAR-toons by Doug Wright, from Star Weekly magazine, Sept 30, 1967. The mechanical-minded cartoonist Doug Wright was a natural when it came to delineating automobiles and other machines and this one-pager has the look of a new strip "pitch" designed to highlight these skills, in contrast to the domestic slapstick of his regular weekly gig with the Star, the beloved "Doug Wright's Family" strip. It doesn't look like this ever turned into anything, but what a glimpse into "what might have been..."</b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0EYz0mOPQBBe8Ogmtzf-6pzFGtcFy-QbytWMfq9TC5YOM2OltxxJCtMtSb5loUZWNM1eStr2PKVxM_tCFNe46b7i7lgskjkh2TforZ-klUCqqKh1duKtTDUYSvy0sdvODYRQ3WA/s2048/IMG_0755.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1757" height="598" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0EYz0mOPQBBe8Ogmtzf-6pzFGtcFy-QbytWMfq9TC5YOM2OltxxJCtMtSb5loUZWNM1eStr2PKVxM_tCFNe46b7i7lgskjkh2TforZ-klUCqqKh1duKtTDUYSvy0sdvODYRQ3WA/w514-h598/IMG_0755.jpg" width="514" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivobll_HYS9sbCFYAhfiqcXcLHKqHUP_1Mqp8bna5hjDnJm6SvyBe2NsCP8Sj-0FLsVnE0DExZTPXA8vG4J2dOj01W9BSlyxAVdvyLKBCZ33phXAY-tk_RO3YvzS4jR-lMjt1png/s2048/IMG_0760.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1215" height="699" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivobll_HYS9sbCFYAhfiqcXcLHKqHUP_1Mqp8bna5hjDnJm6SvyBe2NsCP8Sj-0FLsVnE0DExZTPXA8vG4J2dOj01W9BSlyxAVdvyLKBCZ33phXAY-tk_RO3YvzS4jR-lMjt1png/w415-h699/IMG_0760.jpg" width="415" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-a5BIVwhmLDJ-ZM-j4OrADqIw_7vR7xXZrgsMzmiSY60NXL_P2Knx4a_Fu9OvPrvUvdrfk03mHt2mWkWDljxkEeJQ_at_UO3I-qY0_eENzSq6igSux-qGj4QhaGjh1imq58J0kg/s2048/IMG_0758.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-a5BIVwhmLDJ-ZM-j4OrADqIw_7vR7xXZrgsMzmiSY60NXL_P2Knx4a_Fu9OvPrvUvdrfk03mHt2mWkWDljxkEeJQ_at_UO3I-qY0_eENzSq6igSux-qGj4QhaGjh1imq58J0kg/s320/IMG_0758.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7_NLq3X9B23c1VRZfKh9qshwMbC3QTV2ufq2z8xToJz7UtUZYQq8Cx_9NBVjg1zWBwJcwOMh1LKvTv92XSweBjd-0Fcg-ouetd2lxfjtPvTOjyhGqoxOcHU-BPUxuxgsZjsccKA/s2048/IMG_0757.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1754" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7_NLq3X9B23c1VRZfKh9qshwMbC3QTV2ufq2z8xToJz7UtUZYQq8Cx_9NBVjg1zWBwJcwOMh1LKvTv92XSweBjd-0Fcg-ouetd2lxfjtPvTOjyhGqoxOcHU-BPUxuxgsZjsccKA/s320/IMG_0757.jpg" width="274" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMGn0yrrxs-wDitRO6PI3Kricmp5GsJ7M4a4ZHv1jwju-kzzmMhXsgj2IPH1nCl7dVueMsCaBFmEObMmHpA0AwtrVu1TIVoxnpxrWkSKYGOnJFLD1a97BMaenEhj9J3uWGGa0Rxw/s2048/IMG_0756.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1527" data-original-width="2048" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMGn0yrrxs-wDitRO6PI3Kricmp5GsJ7M4a4ZHv1jwju-kzzmMhXsgj2IPH1nCl7dVueMsCaBFmEObMmHpA0AwtrVu1TIVoxnpxrWkSKYGOnJFLD1a97BMaenEhj9J3uWGGa0Rxw/s320/IMG_0756.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>BKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262262627667900995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21745137.post-46449753604692990202021-07-15T21:14:00.016-05:002021-07-15T21:35:50.446-05:00Comics Crossover Releases from Record Store Day 2021<p><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: verdana;">There is Free Comic Book Day, there is Local Comic Shop Day, and there is <a href="https://recordstoreday.com/Home">Record Store Day</a>, and never the three shall meet! Except! Every once in while there are comics-themed or "comics adjacent" releases that come out on Record Store Day, and 2021 is no exception. This year, like last year, Record Store Day was split into multiple days (called "Drops") because of the Pandemic. Here are the releases that have a heavy comics connection:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA5a7w0oSaH60TGo7o2M2v9xqZ6GRxlAry9hxgnu_gf4J8pxamTc6X13b6Er1R2Frqy_OIwF3QhbZd1-yUTuMWRbtJLNCFuXikFkSpTGF6AFnR8fETBjdIVJ9CvuckIOEJONKIHA/s800/groundhogs.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="510" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA5a7w0oSaH60TGo7o2M2v9xqZ6GRxlAry9hxgnu_gf4J8pxamTc6X13b6Er1R2Frqy_OIwF3QhbZd1-yUTuMWRbtJLNCFuXikFkSpTGF6AFnR8fETBjdIVJ9CvuckIOEJONKIHA/w510-h510/groundhogs.jpeg" width="510" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: verdana;">The Groundhogs, <i>Who Will Save the World?</i></span></b></h3><div><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: verdana;">Legendary superhero comic artist Neal Adams is famous for the comics he did in the 1970s (<b><i>Avengers: Kree-Skrull War</i></b>, <b><i>Batman</i></b>, <b><i>Green Lantern/Green Arrow</i></b>, <b><i>Superman vs Muhammad Ali</i></b>), but this reissue is a tribute to the <i>other</i> career of this 80-year old creator, illustration work in the comics-idiom. Adams did a series of beloved monster-themed covers and interiors for the Power Records book-and-record line, and he did stuff like this: a superhero-style take on a rock band: "Legendary final album from the power trio's classic line-up and a UK Top 10 album from 1972; housed in a faithfully reproduced comic book sleeve featuring an interview with original Marvel artist Neal Adams, plus an unreleased live version taken from their final live show in Pocono, USA. A definitive collector's item and part of the ongoing Fire Records catalogue campaign for the seminal British rock group. Pressed on yellow vinyl." (Limited to 1000 copies: released June 12th)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUNAMzywGgHgbRHX_6WPy_rbSOiKB6J6jtNTu2JeLCWLVKjEAWzFq_rdXbTKeCzMxpvCVr05N__gBeCtbIOFcfBKDh-tRfHsYAj9LOJkzNkCeAupxTWIIaPgDTZ5gPhi1_uKuarQ/s800/pinta.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUNAMzywGgHgbRHX_6WPy_rbSOiKB6J6jtNTu2JeLCWLVKjEAWzFq_rdXbTKeCzMxpvCVr05N__gBeCtbIOFcfBKDh-tRfHsYAj9LOJkzNkCeAupxTWIIaPgDTZ5gPhi1_uKuarQ/w586-h586/pinta.jpeg" width="586" /></span></a></div><div><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;"><br /></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: verdana;">Freddie Gibbs and Madlib, <i>Piñata: The 1984 Version</i></span></h3><div><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: verdana;">Cover by Ben Marra! Marra (<i>Night Business</i>, <i style="font-size: 14px;">Incredibly Fantastic Adventures of Maureen Dowd, </i><span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>Terror Assaulter O.M.W.O.T. (One Man War On Terror) ) </i>is the "Mister 1980s" of the underground/indy comix scene and his deadpan style is perfect for this Miamai-Vice-style reimagining of one of the signature hip-hop albums of the past decade: "Piñata, the acclaimed effort from Freddie Gibbs and Madlib is a perennial best seller. For RSD 2021 Gibbs and Madlib replace Crockett and Tubbs for a follow up to the blaxploitation-inspired Pinata: The 1974 Version, with the ‘80s fueled Pinata: The 1984 Version. Though we promise, no mullets or ugly Ferraris.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">This single LP edition of Piñata has been lacquered at half speed master by Metropolis Mastering in London for the highest fidelity and is housed in an ‘80s themed cover variant exclusively as part of RSD Drops 2021." (released June 12th)</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEiloowqhLg05PkIMHgNRNEX1qi6tjjudpy1huzGPjLfdkQ9yaHi09_m1My564eLfKkhHuorOhws9HkNIR8u-bcQhHjgZbcPtAGEgPD2-IcTdqZT0VmJQ8fEv7U12eMq63rCTFiw/s800/czar.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="556" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEiloowqhLg05PkIMHgNRNEX1qi6tjjudpy1huzGPjLfdkQ9yaHi09_m1My564eLfKkhHuorOhws9HkNIR8u-bcQhHjgZbcPtAGEgPD2-IcTdqZT0VmJQ8fEv7U12eMq63rCTFiw/w624-h556/czar.jpeg" width="624" /></a></div><br /></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: verdana;">Czarface, <i>Czar Noir</i></span></h3><div><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: verdana;">Like MF DOOM, the hip-hop supergroup Czarface has sort of made a knowing-reference to Silver and Bronze Age superhero comics part of their schtick. The last couple of RSD releases from the group have been comics-themed, and they've even released <a href="https://www.gamesradar.com/hip-hop-supergroup-czarface-reveal-their-secret-origin-with-comics/">a stand-alone comic book</a> "origin story" through Z2 Publishing: "Czarface delivers a fresh action adventure in the form of an all new Czarface comic, Czar Noir, packaged with an exclusive vinyl soundtrack. In the spirit of the highly sought-after Power Records series from the ‘70s, you can read along with the comic and hear the story come to life on vinyl. This all new action-packed full color Czarface escapade comes with musical accompaniment by DJ 7L and the Czar-Keys. There’s death, destruction, mayhem and high drama – Czar Noir. The set will be available exclusively as part of RSD Drops 2021." (released July 17th)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk317e0dOfJ8iWLTrAwytrIE0lSMtYMsWPHW4Fy7CHojs_aghz-kDqimZW-1knKL83B_mw6-CXPqDY38eLXRWc5Sf3htId5hvaZHqJElozgmgAmz14lHDM_KsJMgs_E4IsivPRSA/s800/note.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="798" data-original-width="800" height="589" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk317e0dOfJ8iWLTrAwytrIE0lSMtYMsWPHW4Fy7CHojs_aghz-kDqimZW-1knKL83B_mw6-CXPqDY38eLXRWc5Sf3htId5hvaZHqJElozgmgAmz14lHDM_KsJMgs_E4IsivPRSA/w591-h589/note.jpeg" width="591" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: verdana;">Barney Wilen, <i>La Note Bleue</i></span></b></h3><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Way back in 1988, French cartoonist Jacques de Loustal released a well-reviewed graphic novel called <b><i>Barney and the Blue Note</i></b>, a semi-biographical take on the life of a half-forgotten saxophone player (written by long-time Loustal collaborator Philippe Paringaux). The real-life Barney was kind of upset when he found out he dies at the end (spoilers!) but now all is forgiven (Wilen died in 1997) and for RSD a giant box set of a classic Wilen recording comes packaged with a complete reprint of the graphic novel in English! "<span>Limited edition, numbered, 180g vinyl of the celebrated Barney Wilen LP, La Note Bleue. Newly re-mastered from the original 24-track master tapes. Also includes; complete 88 page English edition of the iconic comic strip Barney Et La Note Bleue, 40-page LP-size booklet featuring new liner notes and never before seen photos, plus a bonus CD consisting of a previously unissued radio France live broadcast recorded in 1989 at The Parisian jazz club Le Petit Opportun." (released July 17th)</span></span></div><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: verdana;">see the video below for an "unboxing":</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/002dsnd29Tc" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div>BKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262262627667900995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21745137.post-68097734279551745222021-05-19T17:47:00.004-05:002021-05-19T17:50:54.824-05:00Book Review: According to Jack Kirby by Michael Hill<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCZjJFxSPuYC7sJW73NDZQI17on2-db1aM3xVrE21xEL8EQzzx5QI03dWfd0BGRFfFPuT0rttYUHjytc8ZJihBvqMsgn8nAMQ5pj1BJfr4P0hP8kvuo1S53jaRTTXIJmyOBhyphenhyphenclQ/s593/kirby_cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="593" data-original-width="384" height="669" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCZjJFxSPuYC7sJW73NDZQI17on2-db1aM3xVrE21xEL8EQzzx5QI03dWfd0BGRFfFPuT0rttYUHjytc8ZJihBvqMsgn8nAMQ5pj1BJfr4P0hP8kvuo1S53jaRTTXIJmyOBhyphenhyphenclQ/w433-h669/kirby_cover.jpg" width="433" /></a></div><br /><i><br /></i></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>"According to Jack Kirby: Insights drawn from interviews with comics' greatest creator"</i><br /></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;">by Michael Hill</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Lulu Books</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>2021</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>ISBN 9781667133072</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/michael-hill/according-to-jack-kirby/paperback/product-v7dnyy.html?page=1&pageSize=4"><b>available here</b></a></span></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Review by BK Munn</span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This fascinating new book by Canadian comics scholar Michael Hill documents one of the greatest art crimes of the 20th Century, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">the billion dollar theft of the Marvel Comics characters, told from the point of view of the artist who created them, Jack Kirby. Many people are familiar with the corporate fiction recounted to this day by Marvel and its parent company Disney, and parroted in every news media article, of how the genius writer Stan Lee dreamed up his super hero universe in the 1960s and spun it into a vast empire of toys, movies, and video games, making Stan Lee a millionaire and leading to his many cameos in the beloved Marvel films. The real story is quite different, and it's the story of how middle-aged cartoonist Jack Kirby, desperate for work because his own comics company had just gone out of business and he had been blacklisted from working at DC Comics (publisher of Superman and Batman), came to work for Stan Lee at the tiny little company that would become Marvel. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: white; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stan Lee, the cousin of the publisher, had started as an office boy 20 years earlier and now was the sole employee of his cousin's comics company. Despite a downturn in the business, every month he was still responsible for getting a handful of comic books to print, hiring different writers and artists to create the various humour and cowboy stories he published. Stan even wrote a couple comics each month himself, specializing in "dumb blonde" humour titles like "Millie the Model." Jack Kirby was a seasoned pro at this point, with a legendary and varied resume. The co-creator of Captain America and dozens of other super hero, science fiction and adventure titles, he had also invented the entire genre of romance comics before falling on hard times. Kirby pitched a line of superhero comics to Stan, drawing presentation boards of characters, and then returned to his home studio to plot, write and draw the comics. Once a week he'd drop his pencilled pages off at the office and Stan would revise his dialogue, adding captions and word balloons in the jokey, wisecracking, chummy style that would come to be his hallmark, before sending the pages off to be prepared for printing. Because he added the revised dialogue on top of Kirby's already completed stories, and because he occasionally would make suggestions about the direction of the series and ask for art revisions, Stan credited himself as "Writer" and gave himself a paycheque for every comic Kirby turned in, in addition to his salary as editor. Kirby meanwhile was credited only as "Artist" and was paid by the page as a freelancer with no benefits or royalties. This was the working relationship that led to Kirby's creation of The Fantastic Four, Hulk, Thor, Ant-Man, X-Men, Iron Man, etc. (The same "division of labour" was applied when cartoonist Steve Ditko worked on Spider-Man, based originally on another Kirby proposal, and Dr. Strange.) With the rising popularity of the characters, Stan Lee became the voice of Marvel Comics, writing advertising copy and editorials every month about this fun clubhouse of happy artists (most of whom worked from home and never met each other) he rode herd on, churning out the interconnected fantasy tales that the fans loved. </span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">By the end of the 1960s, Ditko and Kirby had finally quit and Stan had to hire a new batch of writers and artists to continue the adventures of their characters. At the same time, Marvel was sold to a bigger company and the new bosses were anxious to secure their ownership of this now valuable intellectual property. Stan kept his job by claiming he was the sole creator of all the characters, signed a document and gave interviews to that effect, and even started writing books recounting his mythic creation stories ("The Origin of Marvel Comics" et al), even though after Kirby left the company Stan never "created" another memorable comic or character again, while Kirby went on to create hundreds more for different publishers. </span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Michael Hill has written this book as a corrective to the corporate propaganda that fans and journalists alike still repeat every day. He has done this by extensively quoting the interviews Kirby himself gave starting in the early 1960s and by meticulously poking logical holes in every building block of the ridiculous legal fantasy of Stan Lee as the creative force behind the Marvel revolution. Of course, these days you'll see Jack Kirby gets credited as co-creator in some of the movies and comics, in part because his family sued Disney after Kirby died and Disney settled with them before the case got to The Supreme Court, but the myth of loveable Stan Lee is a hard one to give up, especially for fans raised on a diet of the comics and the blockbuster "Marvel Cinematic Universe," but Hill's book goes a long way towards setting the record straight.</span></div></div></div>BKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262262627667900995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21745137.post-41838028797190912492021-02-01T23:09:00.005-06:002023-02-13T12:57:15.774-06:00What Was the Best Comic of 1961?<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span color="var(--primary-text)" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 0.9375rem;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3KuwIjhd9G5rIkaSwxWeM-dmhY5mn9GAkegRtsy6MVFzA9hI_Yw3w1WoMa0N9fpTbzWiMRFedi6sI-9It9k3VmX3bFC4yALwHZDUVAqWauzMLC7hFLU4x8xw3WCn11jiTmZSchQ/s593/1961.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="593" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3KuwIjhd9G5rIkaSwxWeM-dmhY5mn9GAkegRtsy6MVFzA9hI_Yw3w1WoMa0N9fpTbzWiMRFedi6sI-9It9k3VmX3bFC4yALwHZDUVAqWauzMLC7hFLU4x8xw3WCn11jiTmZSchQ/w572-h410/1961.png" width="572" /></a></div></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: white; font-size: 0.9375rem;"><b>by BK Munn</b></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span color="var(--primary-text)" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 0.9375rem;">I've seen some press for an upcoming repackaging of Jack Kirby's Fantastic Four #1, the comic book that arguably launched the Marvel brand of superheroes. The new book tries to place FF1 in its historical context by reprinting it alongside the other Marvel/Atlas comics that were published in the same month, presumably to show what a major departure the title was. Of course, comics historians who have studied the period know that the Fantastic Four is not really a major departure for Kirby, being an extension and articulation of several themes from his previous superhero, science fiction, and romance comics work. Far from being revolutionary, there's a case to be made that the Fantastic Four isn't even the most interesting comic book Kirby himself created that year! Sure, its importance in paving the way for the revival of superheroes at Marvel can't be understated, but most would agree it's not the greatest comic book, even for a kids' comic, and it would be awhile before the title of "World's Greatest Comic Magazine" would even be remotely applicable.</span><span color="var(--primary-text)" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 0.9375rem;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"> Which leads me to ask, what was the best comic of 1961?</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">In the sphere of U.S. children's comic books, there were many contenders in 1961. Dell published all-time classic stories by John Stanley and Carl Barks (Stanley's "Around the Block with Dunc and Loo" premiered the same month as FF #1), and had many good-looking adventure comics like Tarzan. National was cranking out handsome and entertaining comics drawn by the likes of Curt Swan, Joe Kubert, Alex Toth and Carmine Infantino. Archie had Dan DeCarlo and Harry Lucey. The list goes on.</span></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">And what about comics intended for an older or more general audience? There weren't many graphic novels published in 1961 (although there were some), but the world of U.S. magazine and newspaper comic strips was having a banner year. Harvey Kurtzman's <i>Help!</i> magazine was going strong in '61 and you could walk into any bookstore and buy a collection of great comics by immortals like Charles Schulz (<i>Peanuts Every Sunday</i>) and Walt Kelly (<i>Pogo a la Sundae</i>). Any daily newspaper was chock-full of masterful soap opera and adventure storylines by greats like Milt Canniff, Frank Robbins, Harold Gray, Chester Gould, and many more. Johnny Hart's "B.C." had just started to hit its stride and Jules Feiffer, a graphic novel pioneer, had just published a new collection of his decidedly-adult <i>Village Voice </i>strips, "Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl." And don't forget, Jack Kirby was winding up his "Sky Masters" sci-fi strip at the same time as FF#1 was hitting the stands.</span></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Looking further afield, Franco-Belgian comics were having a good year. The first Asterix album by Goscinny & Uderzo came out in 1961. Herge was serializing masterwork "The Castafiore Emerald" in his Tintin magazine, having just released the sublime children's classic "Tintin in Tibet" the previous year. Franquin had put out a new Spirou: "Z comme Zorglub." There were also a ton of lush adventure strip albums by the likes of Uderzo, Jijé (assisted by Jean Giraud), Jean Graton, and others. Elsewhere, Argentine artists like Alberto Breccia, Solano Lopez, and Hugo Pratt were breaking new ground in work for various UK and Spanish-language publishers. In Japan, the gekiga movement was underway, with Yoshihiro Tatsumi creating gritty noirish manga in a new style. Hideko Mizuno published her breakthrough shojo manga “Gin no habira” (Silver Petals), Leiji Matsumoto published his first sci-fi epic, "Denko Ozma," and <a href="http://tezukainenglish.com/wp/?page_id=394">among many other things</a> Tezuka published his "Captain Ozma" (no relation!) in 1961.</span></span></div><div><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /></span></div></div>BKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262262627667900995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21745137.post-72954821491511700512020-12-02T05:44:00.002-06:002020-12-02T05:46:10.038-06:00Comics in Film: Robert Crumb's "Despair" in Smithereens<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2u59vz9Vk_etBXxlBWjQyl0BGLfI-Ge9coykT45DpCSFAybTZyiDgSTO8cz39HOoZcxAPvneyJKTsuVuB0vwhigeUqoYAPpUoVxbqkkzE39l3Oi5vjaGKq-JntYN0CDm6jOcNKw/s2048/despair.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1473" data-original-width="2048" height="423" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2u59vz9Vk_etBXxlBWjQyl0BGLfI-Ge9coykT45DpCSFAybTZyiDgSTO8cz39HOoZcxAPvneyJKTsuVuB0vwhigeUqoYAPpUoVxbqkkzE39l3Oi5vjaGKq-JntYN0CDm6jOcNKw/w589-h423/despair.jpg" width="589" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>by BK Munn</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Comics in Film: Smithereens (1982). </b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Billy reads a copy of Robert Crumb's Despair while his romantically-linked bedmates, manic pixie punk girl Wren (Susan Berman) and washed-up rocker Eric (Richard Hell) argue. Even though the girls are crazy for him, Eric is so broke he has to live in a shitty apartment with Billy, a dumb loser who no girl is dumb enough to hook up with. Billy is so dumb he reads only comic books, like this classic existential Underground Comic from 1969, one of many cultural signifiers in the film, set in the blighted NYC of the day, for the ennui and emptiness of the scene and the lack of options for young people, especially young women. </b></span><p></p><p><br /></p>BKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262262627667900995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21745137.post-2465656926286157922020-10-06T16:59:00.006-05:002020-10-06T17:02:31.441-05:00Recent Flexi-disc Comic Books<p><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">The greatest novelty publishing format mixes two of my favourite things: comics and records. There was a brief vogue for including flexi-discs in comic books during the 1980s. <a href="https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2009/03/alan-moore-on-record.html">Famously</a>, Alan Moore recorded as part of combo The Sinister Ducks and released a flexi, "March of the Sinister Ducks"/"Old Gangsters Never Die", in Critters #23 (1988). Issues of Nexus, Scout, RAW, Femforce, Mad, and many others included similar stunts. With the resurgence of vinyl, the flexi has reappeared and the combining of comics and records has also made a comeback, usually in comics with a music connection or as stand-alone marketing gimmicks added to record packages by musicians. Here are some recent flexi-discs included in comic books from the last few years:</span></b></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-family: verdana; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #2a2a2a; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1848" data-original-width="1200" height="634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3p35iZqDq5M0WTtCNk4V_P6uRB8DCidIaHSk2_89MqcZOnLAyK9KbL5BHgDQSEQzEpmhaZkzoeD1oNSdo5qF07_usIHzTmHfaZZccitxiGGNADSqY3WqzVtAOHBihgEjVFFdvhw/w412-h634/STL009938.jpeg" width="412" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRe7DkTb3dsxp3B3VXSqsHOaj7ISCOjYZ12B6GaqZdPOQr5RcpQrpT6U_QgUZ1HspQPTd07GU43UwyXRvIfE76Rujh6h7UeAEJ_jn8IOMC_yRqOCqnuden_BL2uF9-fA2xP2U8GQ/s923/hhft.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="923" data-original-width="923" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRe7DkTb3dsxp3B3VXSqsHOaj7ISCOjYZ12B6GaqZdPOQr5RcpQrpT6U_QgUZ1HspQPTd07GU43UwyXRvIfE76Rujh6h7UeAEJ_jn8IOMC_yRqOCqnuden_BL2uF9-fA2xP2U8GQ/w175-h175/hhft.jpg" width="175" /></a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #2a2a2a; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><b>Ed Piskor / Jorun Bombay, <i>Hip Hop Family Tree #12 </i>(2016)</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="museo-slab, Georgia, serif"><span><span style="caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: white; font-family: verdana;"><b>Publisher's blurb: "Too many incredible milestones in this issue to name! LL Cool J makes a record with Rick Rubin and Def Jam. KRS One gets arrested and meets his future DJ. The Fat Boys and Run DMC headline the first national Hip Hop tours. Just to name a few. PLUS: This issue comes with an exclusive flexi disc of hip hop gold!" [flexi-disc by Jorun Bombay: "Hip Hop Family Tree"]</b></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="museo-slab, Georgia, serif"><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="museo-slab, Georgia, serif"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigHlB7eBOjs_BhU5dBzkyqfhkYhp8dzDk7KwWA5r5uHDjMdet22Z_kRWheDMpkGjAyx-BKZUimcuHPECGn99gWrTGicreHDHTakxIPFEQ9BTAVkkb0cQvbkBm031z3mOgw3X0-6g/s250/zimmer1.jpg" style="clear: left; color: #2a2a2a; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="250" height="409" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigHlB7eBOjs_BhU5dBzkyqfhkYhp8dzDk7KwWA5r5uHDjMdet22Z_kRWheDMpkGjAyx-BKZUimcuHPECGn99gWrTGicreHDHTakxIPFEQ9BTAVkkb0cQvbkBm031z3mOgw3X0-6g/w409-h409/zimmer1.jpg" width="409" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp9-ORxBnfclDh86G1fXsuX4raV8UzD9PwXcm7Ft_IbYF3KWxcsZ_9LdgyU2m7Tyvbii66tv-QotyGXxUE4X8eF7-RqmxCnyOtunPHclMbtbWcmhB-Iekv48MAgcY_XDGqOOFmnw/s769/zimmer2.jpg" style="color: #2a2a2a; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="769" data-original-width="600" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp9-ORxBnfclDh86G1fXsuX4raV8UzD9PwXcm7Ft_IbYF3KWxcsZ_9LdgyU2m7Tyvbii66tv-QotyGXxUE4X8eF7-RqmxCnyOtunPHclMbtbWcmhB-Iekv48MAgcY_XDGqOOFmnw/w181-h232/zimmer2.jpg" width="181" /></a><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;">HANS ZIMMER & JUNKIE XL, <i>"There War Here" (2016)</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;"><span>Inserted into a special edition of Birth.Movies.Death, the magazine of soundtrack label Mondo Records. Publisher's blurb: </span><span><span style="caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 14.800000190734863px;">This March titans tussled as BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE exploded into theaters. To celebrate the long-awaited team up of the world’s finest superheroes, BIRTH.MOVIES.DEATH. published a special collector’s issue exploring the histories of the characters in comics, cartoons, TV shows and movies. From ACTION COMICS #1 to the upcoming JUSTICE LEAGUE movie, BIRTH.MOVIES.DEATH. tells you everything you need to know to watch Batman and Superman square off.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 14.800000190734863px;">As a bonus we are randomly inserting limited flexi discs featuring a track from Hans Zimmer and Junkie XL's epic BATMAN V SUPERMAN score into copies of the magazine. Only 2,500 exist! </span></span><span>The issue features the secret history of Wonder Woman, an appreciation of Prince’s classic Batdance and an essay by comic book legend Mark Waid reminding us “Why Superman Matters.” This spectacular collector’s edition boasts a dynamic wraparound Mondo-designed cover by Oliver Barrett, and inside it features an exclusive gallery of Mondo’s most exciting DC Comics artwork, reprinted in full page, full color glory!</span></span></div></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn4av6DMO6rhvXMj2sn1Ecs2ihaSEtOfpcuXIVrM2IvFSirhRv0nFzAMXqYy9LYRFi-MJGK74OLaEWrFzgnSDb-RqfNn2bq4HOQ6m-4vpF_vUjFIoRXVamcqcgc46mHWWnKDaUTw/s771/bark171_r17004X.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="771" data-original-width="500" height="629" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn4av6DMO6rhvXMj2sn1Ecs2ihaSEtOfpcuXIVrM2IvFSirhRv0nFzAMXqYy9LYRFi-MJGK74OLaEWrFzgnSDb-RqfNn2bq4HOQ6m-4vpF_vUjFIoRXVamcqcgc46mHWWnKDaUTw/w409-h629/bark171_r17004X.jpg" width="409" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4GyRXMItxVtdFhOMh0-4v2SR4EPOwrLdWY11OE4xiiP16rTCCNPTDHfVgcOeLKmej3MekgD6tc7hA_Ak7E3vrwyIz4Z7RlLe2YGZ8wekqd_CBBj12CY4COFPHXz1c2RnwtIsukw/s200/bark171flexi.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4GyRXMItxVtdFhOMh0-4v2SR4EPOwrLdWY11OE4xiiP16rTCCNPTDHfVgcOeLKmej3MekgD6tc7hA_Ak7E3vrwyIz4Z7RlLe2YGZ8wekqd_CBBj12CY4COFPHXz1c2RnwtIsukw/s0/bark171flexi.jpg" /></a><br /><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><b style="background-color: black;"><span face="museo-slab, Georgia, serif" style="text-align: justify;">CHARLY BLISS, </span><span style="text-align: justify;"><i>Guppy: Issue One (2017)</i></span></b></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span face="museo-slab, Georgia, serif" style="caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">Publisher's blurb: "Now you too can experience one of the year's most critically acclaimed albums ... in comic book form! Barsuk Records and Charly Bliss are pleased to present </span><span class="release" face="museo-slab, Georgia, serif" style="border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Guppy: Issue One</span><span face="museo-slab, Georgia, serif" style="caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">, a limited-edition 16-page full-color comic that's a companion piece to Charly Bliss' debut album </span><a href="https://www.barsuk.com/shop/bark169" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Guppy</a><span face="museo-slab, Georgia, serif" style="caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">. Not only does this comic include artwork by noted indie comic book artists Sadie DuPuis (of Speedy Ortiz), Michael DeForge, and cover art by Noah Van Sciver (amongst others) but it also includes a flexi-disc with two previously unreleased tracks from the Guppy sessions, "Golden Age" and "Special", along with a download code for digital enjoyment. The comic book is limited to 500 worldwide and each are hand</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 16px;"> numbered."</span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSl-ihIaXsl24JlIMYucekXS4XrvdKlQ98eL5D9N3mT7IOfY49f6n78REETYpnWUYUE0bcR5iX_u2pJDoWo1et9NcqA8fnfZ0gfDCJLvRIguLM3VfsRrGarrPBfaRfSQd1ifS7xw/s1024/flexi_ripper.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="791" height="537" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSl-ihIaXsl24JlIMYucekXS4XrvdKlQ98eL5D9N3mT7IOfY49f6n78REETYpnWUYUE0bcR5iX_u2pJDoWo1et9NcqA8fnfZ0gfDCJLvRIguLM3VfsRrGarrPBfaRfSQd1ifS7xw/w415-h537/flexi_ripper.jpg" width="415" /></span></b></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">FRANCESCO DE MASI / ANOTHER DEAD JUNKIE, <i>The New York Ripper theme (2017)</i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">This comic book adaptation of The New York Ripper, the <span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">1982 Italian giallo film directed by Lucio Fulci, contains a signed-and-numbered </span></span>7-Inch New York Ripper flexi picture disc soundtrack featuring Francesco De Masis' theme music from the original soundtrack performed by Another Dead Junkie. Flexi art by Pat Carbajal, with colours by Bruna Costa. Comes in a plastic sleeve with liner notes insert, featuring the original poster art from the original theatrical release.</span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhePV9duz1AbIDfClQlbTAkNrZgHArVf_BNFuzvIoHajeX8P_DcMABqn33vtx879RrW4Bz9bEC-2MclL9JdB_5J8KF3_hKzmDFbd8_Rqxk1W-M1Gt1jeLG1_2nNFDhyphenhyphenQahEx_44xw/s1094/Screen+Shot+2020-09-29+at+5.37.44+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="906" data-original-width="1094" height="541" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhePV9duz1AbIDfClQlbTAkNrZgHArVf_BNFuzvIoHajeX8P_DcMABqn33vtx879RrW4Bz9bEC-2MclL9JdB_5J8KF3_hKzmDFbd8_Rqxk1W-M1Gt1jeLG1_2nNFDhyphenhyphenQahEx_44xw/w652-h541/Screen+Shot+2020-09-29+at+5.37.44+AM.png" width="652" /></span></b></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Denzel Curry, <i>Unlocked</i> (2020)</span></b></p><b><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Publisher's blurb: "Earlier this year, Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats put their heads together and emerged with a clever project, Unlocked. It was first released as a short film/long-form music video, in which a collaborative album between the two leaks online, so the two have to virtually traverse the internet to recover it. The next day, they released the songs from the film as a new album of the same title. Now, Curry and Beats are dipping back into the Unlocked well, as they are gearing up to release the project in comic book form.</span></b><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">The plot of the comic comes courtesy of Psycho Films, and the 48-page book will be illustrated by Sam Hochman, Joey Prosser, Forrest Whaley, Justin Johnson, Chaz Bottoms, Malik Bolton, Rachel Headlam, Borboev Shakhnazer, and Asekov Tilek. Additionally, the book will include a vinyl flexi-disc insert of the single “DIET_.” "</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="museo-slab, Georgia, serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: white; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="museo-slab, Georgia, serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></p>BKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14262262627667900995noreply@blogger.com0