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Yesterday, I read the reprint of the Alice Cooper comic Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli did in the 90's, and it was kinda meh (nice art though). So, I was wondering, since these two art forms are rather far away from each other, has there ever been a successful marriage of the two? I know there's some good comics-influenced music, but what about the other way around? The only good example I can think of is the Corto Maltese book "Tango" set in Argentina, which (or at least one edition of it) came with a CD of old-school Argentinian tangos.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 13:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Mary Fleener's "I FEEL GOOD!" to thread.

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link

R. Crumb's "Whatever Happened to the Beautiful Music of Our Grandparents?" to thread.

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Phonogram to thread, if you like Britpop.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

What was the name of that thing that Justin Green did in Tower Record's magazine for a few years? That one to thread, too. Lynda Barry's done some killer stuff, too.

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link

There was that ::shudder:: Belle and Sebastian graphic illustration of the lyrics thing. It was actually... quite good. The artwork, at least. As a collection, it was very interesting.

(Used to do this a million years ago, with an old band, but have got out of the habit. Except for that Elephants thing I did a few years back.)

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Not that this would be good, but I remember hearing about a comic that Kid Koala did that came with a record meant as a soundtrack (or vice versa).

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Didn't Kraftwerk do a comic with one of their early albums?

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Jordan's answer reminds me of all those p-funk album covers filled with the Sergio Aragonesesque scrawlings of Pedro Bell, too.

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link

2000AD had a shortlived Comic Rock thing going, with two stories - Killer Watt and Going Underground. Both bore essentially no relation to the songs notionally linked to, but they did start the whole Nemesis thing going.

― The Real Dirty Vicar (The Real Dirty Vicar), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

2000AD once did a Sisters of Mercy strip - c.1988 iirc (Floodland era Sisters).

― Onimo drank ALL the wine! (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Not that this would be good, but I remember hearing about a comic that Kid Koala did that came with a record meant as a soundtrack (or vice versa).

There was a comic in the liner notes to the album. It was very cool.

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

That reminds me, Happy Apple had a wordless comic as the liner notes to Youth Oriented, done by some French guy.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Prince's comic on the aborted DC Piranha imprint is something pretty special. Don't forget Alan Moore's Sinister Ducks flexidisc! And the 70's pseudo emo spiderman album.

― forksclovetofu (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

You think they're cuddly but I think they're sinister...

Ducks! Ducks! ::quack quack:: ::quack quack::

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I have a .cbr of a 1974 Pink Floyd tour comic.

― The PEW Research Center for Panty-Twisting (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Prince's comic on the aborted DC Piranha imprint is something pretty special.

WAHT

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

2000AD once did a Sisters of Mercy strip - c.1988 iirc (Floodland era Sisters).

do you mean the Nemesis story where Torquemada travelled back in time and hung out with Goths and went to a student disco?

― The Real Dirty Vicar (The Real Dirty Vicar), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

> Yesterday, I read the reprint of the Alice Cooper comic Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli did in the 90's

i have that (three parts?). dave mckean also did one for the rolling stones which i always associate with the alice cooper thing, somehow.

i also have, somewhere, a 7" single with a cover done by ted mckeever and that Fauves 7" featuring grant morrisson. (oh, and the warren ellis is in nick cave's new band, which i think's a bit strange)

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Sienkiewicz + the Hendrix thing to thread, even though it wasn't very good.

― Donkey Kong New York (Lee), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, and the warren ellis is in nick cave's new band, which i think's a bit strange)

You know it's not that Warren Ellis, right?

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

The Overton Lloyd-illustrated comics issued with the last few Parliament albums (Gloryhallastoopid, etc.) are awesome.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

there's also the Royal Trux comics, which are hilariously inscrutable

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Evan Dorkin's Hectic Planet/Pirate Corp$, despite their unfortunate late 80s/early 90s ska emphasis.

Classic music-influenced comics: Pete Bagge's Hate, Love & Rockets, etc

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.ellipsis.com/pop/hippies/images/p1.gif
http://www.ellipsis.com/pop/hippies/images/t1.gif

― a_p (a_p), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Matt Howarth's comics are full of the Residents and, uh, dang, what's the name of that German guy who shows up all the time... Conrad Schnitzler? Conny Planck?

― The PEW Research Center for Panty-Twisting (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Bagge's "parody" of the Dwarves was a high-point in Hate.

ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK N ROLL DEATHCAMP

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I SCREAM YOU SCREAM WE ALL SCREAM FOR MILLER IN THE CAN!

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

http://nowave.pair.com/no_wave/nyc_images/%7Ekaz.jpg

― dan selzer (dan selzer), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Anthrax's "I Am the Law".

― Chap (chap), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Music inspired new fave: Blue Monday

― patita (patita), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Hopeless Savages, by Jen van Meter (who's married to Rucka). Vol. 1 is grebt fun, vol. 2 is rub, haven't tried vol. 3.

― Donkey Kong New York (Lee), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Terry Laban's daily strip "Edge City" is about a middle class couple with kids, but the dad is an aging punk type who's hobby is playing in a band. Some of the storylines in that vein are pretty good.

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Isn't League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 3 supposed to come with an album of songs performed by Alan Moore?

― The Yellow Kid (TheYellowKid), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Didn't Jamie Hewlett (he of Tank Girl and Gorillaz) do a comic to go with Pulp's 'Common People' - it used to be all over the net. And Fila Brazillia's 'Powerclowns' CD booklet is entirely made up of wordless mini-comics with tiny eye-hurting frames, but I remember them as rather nifty.

― James Morrison (James Morrison), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link

As to LOEG Vol 3, that depends if it ever comes out.

― James Morrison (James Morrison), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

next October sez Amazon?

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Blue Monday otm!!!

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Negative effects of middle school comics habit:
1. Learned to draw bad anatomy with thick black outlines on everything
2. Friends loled at me every time a marvel or dc comic was spotted in my backpack or locker
3. Bought several ska cds based on Evan Dorkin letter pages

― A B C (sparklecock), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link

3. Bought several ska cds based on Evan Dorkin letter pages

hahaha, yup.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link

"WAHT"

I just wasted twenty minutes trying to find scans of that Prince Rogers Nelson Piranha book. If I had a scanner I'd just put my copy up. Anybody able to unearth this gem?

― forksclovetofu (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 January 2007 06:24 (seventeen years ago) link

>> oh, and the warren ellis is in nick cave's new band, which i think's a bit strange
> You know it's not that Warren Ellis, right?

ha ha, i didn't. just saw the name and assumed. that is less strange, yes 8)

oddly, warren ellis' blog seems like it'd be just up nick cave's street.

great rock things otm. the cockatoo twins.

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 4 January 2007 09:56 (seventeen years ago) link

>> Didn't Jamie Hewlett (he of Tank Girl and Gorillaz) do a comic to go with Pulp's 'Common People'

Dunno but he did loads of art for the Senseless Things.

Alan Moore's Sinister Ducks was a proper 7" not a flexi.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 4 January 2007 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Was that first Kula Shaker LP cover done by Dave Gibbons, or did it just look that way?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 4 January 2007 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link

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