Con news: NYAF music schedule announced
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet (Above: Boom Boom Satellites) Boom Boom Satellites, Zazen Boys, Echostream and Puffy AmiYumi will be performing at the Far East To East Showcase (FETES) during the New York Anime Festival, it was announced today. The show takes place on Sunday, October 10, 2010 at Irving Plaza. Tickets are $22 each. FETES [...]
Continue ReadingTonight to do: Anamanaguchi at Brooklyn Bowl
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Not comics really, but all nerd, chiptune punk band Anamanaguchi, who wrote the soundtrack to the Scott Pilgrim video game, is playing tonight in Brooklyn. And it’s free!
Continue ReadingThings the internet was made for: Kanye New Yorker cartoons
Take one part Kanye West's completely solipsistic Twitter feed. Add in one part abstruse New Yorker cartoons. Result: comedy.
Continue ReadingTwo new Scott Pilgrim remixes
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet SCOTT PILGRIM REMIX: ‘HEY’ Track: “Death To All Hipsters” Artist: Beck / Nigel Godrich Dialogue Remix by Osymyso And the third one is at Moviefone but can’t be embedded yet. SCOTT PILGRIM REMIX: ‘LOVE’ Track: “Hillcrest Park” Artist: Nigel Godrich Dialogue Remix by Osymyso
Continue ReadingEd Brubaker, KCRW DJ
Let's spin some tunes with The Brub! Ed Brubaker has just completed a stint as a guest DJ for LA's influential radio station KCRW. Luckily, thanks to modern day technology, we can all listen along and hopefully no one will be singing the Smith's lyric "Hang the bloody DJ." PR below.
Continue ReadingTwo people who will not do things any more: Robert Crumb and Alan Moore
From various sources, great artists who like to do things their way, and have earned the right to do so. Plus, is it okay for R. Crumb to use the work of other, lesser cartoonists as scrap for his own work?
Continue ReadingDoes the Bieber/Pilgrim connection somehow threaten our very existence?
We can't POSSIBLY be the first person to point this out...are we???? While the SCOTT PILGRIM trailer briefly supplanting Justin Bieber as the most important topic on earth has been noted, Bieber's uncanny resemblance to an animated manga character has not -- or at least not on comic book message boards.
Continue ReadingGorillaz secret guest stars
Reader Maclaine Diemer alaerted us to this new Gorillaz video which, in addition to being just excellent, features a couple of guest stars. One is obvious -- the star of many comic-bookical movies. The other -- appearing at around the 4:00 mark -- could be an homage to another well known character? Since this is the first part of an evolving story, perhaps this mysterious figure will be back in future installments.
Continue ReadingThe scoop on Damon Albarn and Alan Moore’s John Dee Opera
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Is this the supergroup for our time? Even more super duper than the other Gorillaz superstar lineups on their new album? Over at Vulture, Gorillaz mastermind Damon Albarn has a bit more on his upcoming collaboration with Alan Moore for a new opera: it’s based on the life of John Dee, [...]
Continue ReadingHenry and Glenn FOREVER
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet I’m not sure what this is, but I want it: Henry Rolilns and Glenn Danzig in the all-out action YOU demanded! Coming soon from Cantankerous Titles.Henry & Glenn Forever complete edition.by Tom Neely, Scot Nobles and Gin Stevens of the Igloo Tornado. This book will debut at the Stumptown Comics Festival in Portland, [...]
Continue ReadingPut your face on WIRE HANGERS
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The music-comics connection continues with WIRE HANGERS, a miniseries written by Alan Robert, bass player for Life of Agony and front man for Spoiler NYC. In true auteur fashion, Robert writes and illustrates the four-issue miniseries, due from IDW in April. (Covers are by Nelson DeCastro.) To get things going, the [...]
Continue ReadingEXCLUSIVE: Jhonen Vasquez covers Sir Frontalot
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Nerdcore rap pioneer MC Frontalot has teamed up with comics legend Jhonen Vasquez for his new album cover. Known for his dark classic comic Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, and cartoon Invader Zim, Vasquez’s most prominent recent projects have been his collaborations with the band Mindless Self Indulgence, although you can follow [...]
Continue ReadingThe Grammys find the future
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWow, based on last night’s Grammy Award telecast, the music biz has found a new look, and it’s Black Lantern all the way! Most performers dressed in dark, or gunmetal, with lots of metallics — hell even Dave Matthews looked like he stepped out of a SAW movie, which is [...]
Continue ReadingSpidey Musical update
Share this link on Facebook!TweetOne of these days, the Spider-Man musical is going to open and it’s going to be pretty incredible. With theatre genius Julie Taymor on board and songs by Bono and the Edge, people will be talking. That day won’t be for MORE than a year yet, but there is movement, [...]
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