Celebrating the launch of a classic Bowie track
Music
Cartoon Capers a-plenty at the Waterside Arts Festival in July
Cartoon craziness ahead in Hythe, next month, co-ordinated by the Cartoonists’ Club of Great Britain
WebFind: Stuff by Mark, and his amazing song-inspired posters – and comics, too
Check out these wonderful comic and film-inspired takes on some classic cracking music tracks from The Jam, The Specials and more
Philippe Druillet & Zombie Zombie combine for Paris concert
Welcome to the Fourth Dimension!
Comics and music combined, in Kosmik Musik, a new graphic novel from Ben Wheatley and Joe Currie
Kosmik Musik, a new graphic novel is out now, written by film director and writer Ben Wheatley, with art by Joe Currie
In Review: Moonage Daydream (15)
Tim Robins checks out the new David Bowie documentary
Retro Review: Bog Bodies by Declan Shalvey and Gavin Fullerton
An Irish gangster on the run after a job gone wrong stumbles upon a young woman lost in the Dublin mountains… Luke Williams catches up on “Bog Bodies” by Declan Shalvey and Gavin Fullerton
Musical Notes: Do You Remember “The Spectrum”?
Were you a fan of The Spectrum, a 1960s band perhaps best known for their Captain Scarlet connection?
New “Anthrax: Among the Living” graphic novel from Z2 Comics features a (possible) death of Judge Dredd
Warning! Chris Weston’s art may make your eyes burn!
Early cover art by 2000AD’s Colin Wilson unearthed for ground-breaking New Zealand music paper “Rip it Up”
Some early work by 2000AD and Blueberry artist Colin Wilson has a familiar look…
Coming Up: Superman in Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
You’ll believe a man can fly. Again.
The Mask of Exterminus looks vaguely familiar… and is a music career in the works for a former Servant of Nox?
Doomlord is back… sort of… in a new guise, with a new career in the works
Call for Papers: Graphic Brighton 2018, mashing music with comics!
Music and comics have had a connection right from the start, with the title of the seminal newspaper strip Hogan’s Alley taken from a popular song by Edward Harrigan. As the 20th Century progressed, these two media flirted with each… Read More ›
WebFind: Various Artists – Comics about the Music that inspires us
I’ve just come across Various Artists, a great web site packed with music inspired comics, the brainchild of artist Tim Bird, whose books include Grey Area, Reads and the forthcoming The Great North Wood from Avery Hill Publishing. Rock & Pop started… Read More ›
Drokk track offered in new Megazine
The latest issue of the Judge Dredd Megazine (322) is on sale now with an exclusive downloadable track from a brand new album by Portishead’s Geoff Barrow and Emmy-nominated composer Ben Salisbury. DROKK is the pair’s ‘soundtrack’ for Judge… Read More ›
Drokk Me! It’s only some Mega-City music
Musicians Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury are to release Drokk in May – an album inspired by Judge Dredd’s 2000AD home town, Mega-City One. Geoff Barrow is a founding member of Portishead and producer/label owner of Invada Records UK. Ben… Read More ›
Commando: Music From The Home Front
In this 50 anniversary year of the Eagle award winning Commando, there are a number of tie-ins scheduled to be published in addition to the standard 104 issues of the comic. As well as the latest of the big reprint… Read More ›
Stately Hunt Emerson releases CD
Birmingham-based cartoonist Hunt Emerson is to release a single, Josephine, on May Day 2011. Released on the new Spritely Records label, Josephine is a song by legendary singer-songwriter John Otway and described by Hunt as “an epic tale of innocence… Read More ›
thingNY’s Call for Comic Artists
We don’t normally circulate much non-British news, but this US-based music project posted their international appeal for artists on our events page, so we thought we’d repost the information here. A New York-based xxperimental music ensemble, thingNY is looking for… Read More ›
Don’t Forsake The Prisoner
Fans of The Prisoner reading this blog might want to check out the various web sites of US band Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling, which has a new music project in the works inspired by the show aptly… Read More ›