On the Scene: NIGHT JOB Salon Gets Personal
Tweet On March 21st 2013 at the Union Hall bar, restaurant, and music venue in Park Slope, Brooklyn, comics creator and TRIP CITY co-curator Dean Haspiel and comedian/actress Katharine Heller launched...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Greg Pak and Jonathan Coulton Team Up on Kickstarter!
TweetKick up the Kick-Watcher! Today sees the launch of Code Monkey Save World, a new 60-page graphic novel from Greg Pak and Jonathan Coulton, to be brought to life by the artistic team of Takeshi...
View ArticleThe Doors App Tells Morrison’s Tale through Haspiel’s Comics
Tweet You might have caught wind of the fact that a multi-media iPad app has been released this week featuring The Doors as part of a “fan experience” that was created to coincide with the digitization...
View ArticleHenry and Glenn #1 sells 71,000 copies — to celebrate, here’s a preview of...
TweetTom Neely’s HENRY & GLENN FOREVER is a reinvention—totally fictional—of two rock icons combined with some razor sharp cartooning and the result is a comics classic. A POPULAR, comics classic:...
View ArticleRun DMC’s Daryl McDaniels teams up with Bronze Age Great Sal Buscema…and that...
Tweet Like many of the great rappers—and he is one of the old skool greats—Darryl “DMC” McDaniels grew up a big comics nerd. So after meeting up with a fellow comics loving music exec, McDaniel decided...
View ArticleAvril Lavigne’s New Video Is The Best Comic of 2013
TweetIf Heidi is allowed to post about Lord of the Rings, then I’m allowed to write about my passions too, and of course by that I mean Avril Lavigne videos. Her new video for ‘Rock N Roll’ is another...
View ArticleMark the Tenth Birthday of ‘Hey Ya!’ with Peanuts
Tweet Joe Hughes points out the painful fact that Outkast’s ‘Hey Ya!’, the song that led us from post 9/11 PTSD, that taught us how to shake it in the early years of social media, that signaled...
View ArticleMinistry’s Al Jourgensen is writing a comic book
Tweet 90s nostalgia. I don’t think I’m giving away too much to say I was there. Pearl Jam, Helmet, Beastie Boys, RHCP, Chris Cornell with long hair. Primus. Henry Rollins. Porno for Pyros. The Roxy....
View ArticleRIP: Oderus Urungus
Tweet The Gwar frontman is dead at age 50. Gwar had a big comics crossover of inspiration and I know they played Comic-Con several times. Photo via Diabolique Magazine #call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}
View ArticleWanna listen to the Awesome Mix Vol 1 from Guardians of the Galaxy?
Tweet Perhaps no movie since the last Quentin Tarantino film has used familiar music as effectively to cue emotions as Guardians of The Galaxy. Starting with the trailers, director James Gunn picked...
View ArticleBlack Widow has formed a Girl Group, take a listen!
Scarlett Johansson has occasionally dabbled in music, be it in a fun little karaoke scene in Lost In Translation (one of my top ten favorite movies of all time), or putting out an album of Tom Waits...
View ArticleSDCC ’15: Comics and Pop Music Panel introduces Archie Meets the Ramones
By Harper W. Harris Today at the Comics and Pop Music: Making New Noise panel at Comic Con, there was one of the most interesting groups of people on stage: Patrick A. Reed of Comics Alliance moderated...
View ArticleHere’s Why You Can’t Remember Any of the Music from Marvel’s Cinematic Universe
Why is it that no Marvel music ever worms its way into your brain?
View ArticleHoliday Cheerings: James Kochalka’s annual Christmas song “Do the Snowflakes...
James Kochalka has delivered his annual Christmas ditty and it includes snowflakes and a cat. So that’s all good. Kochalka, the first Poet Laureate of Vermont, has a busy career as both a cartoonist...
View ArticleReview: Daniel Johnston biography sets a whole new standard
As biographical graphic novels go, you’ve never read anything like The Incantations Of Daniel Johnston, a poetic, frenetic dive through the mind of the singer/songwriter, using it as a filter through...
View ArticleNO SPANDEX SATURDAY: It’s Not Dead 2, the return of punk rock and the arts to...
2015 saw the debut of a new music festival for the punk rock loving crowd. Featuring headliners such as the Descendents and NOFX, It’s Not Dead was one of the best single days of music one could...
View Article12 Hours of Halloween: These are the spooky soundtracks you need for haunting
Nothing gives you the inspiration for that finishing touch on your Halloween costume like the right music. For many years our music of choice has been Soma FM’s “Doomed” station, which has a special...
View ArticleNO SPANDEX SATURDAY: Kicking off 2018 with a thought on fandom, tied to my...
You can easily recognize me at anything that ends in con, experience, or even mania by my black zip-up hooded sweater with an unmistakable subculture caricature on the back of it, the Milo. A crude...
View ArticleKendrick Lamar reveals the tracklist for BLACK PANTHER’s OST and it’s DAMN...
Fans of the Marvel movies might remember this 2016 video from the video essay channel, Every Frame a Painting, where Marvel’s cinematic score was lambasted as bland and forgettable. No more, however....
View ArticleNo Spandex Saturday: The music of Metal Gear is coming to a stage near you.
Hideo Kojima’s masterpiece of ridiculous and grounded thematic storytelling, Metal Gear Solid, has taken its place in the video game pantheon but its music will live on this Fall. The official METAL...
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