What if I bought you a Cadillac? ~T Andy O.B.O. said:

You could send it to Razorcake, which reviews all things punk related. Even if the review doesn't make it past the record review editor (She's my girlfriend (and no, I can't put in a good word for you) and it's based mostly on whether the review is entertaining to read more than anything) into print, it still gets posted to the website.
www.razorcake.org

You could send it to Razorcake, which reviews all things punk related. Even if the review doesn't make it past the record review editor (She's my girlfriend (and no, I can't put in a good word for you) and it's based mostly on whether the review is entertaining to read more than anything) into print, it still gets posted to the website. www.razorcake.org

Try Steve Terrell. http://garagepunk.ning.com/profile/swt He might be able to send you in the right direction if he doesn't do it himself. Good luck!

Any suggestions where a feller should send a garage/country/punk 7" to get some reviews or press?
Thanks,
~T

I've currently slipped back into one of my periodic fan-boy obessions with Eric Powell's The Goon... Amongst others I'm a big fan of the old-school style art in Michael Kupperman's Tales Designed to Thrizzle:

I picked up the first part of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century the other day - not so bad, but I'm thinking that it's not really going to work as a complete and rounded peice untill all the chapters are in (making the yearly release dates pretty irritating...)

YEEESH! Hahaa! Love the page, I have a Wolverton cover of Mad around, he is so super hilarious! ...Will post that later. All of those guys are great, great Comics artists, stretching their genres and blowing them up to the max. It's just a drag they where always put down by what they worked on. How about Caniff? That guy, like Kirby could move in a genre he helped craft and play in it. His work is really wonderful and alive. And Black and White of course. I love these more recent Artists: Sam Hiti, awesome! Toby Cypress, awesome too! Both using a base of old styles in their work and kicking it up into soemthing really fresh. And B/W, which I always welcome. movingV said:

I like Toth, but I'm not as wild about him as I am about Basil Wolverton, Jim Steranko, Steve Ditko, Wally Wood...and Robt Wms, who I think is the maximum utmost.

IDON MINE said:

Yep, part of the media witchhunt of that time. Blame comics for the society they portrait and cast away from bullshit politics that helped make them a fact.

Like artists didn't have it hard enough at that time, copeing with changing work standards! Always good to close a work option and then not opening up five new ones to fill the gap.

Oh I'm getting carried away!

Any other genre classics you read? How about Toth's HOT RODD and Car Comics?





movingV said:

That was before some Senate committee investigating violent comics. Some asshat asked Wm C Gaines whether he thought the cover was in bad taste, and Gaines said it wou'd've been in bad taste if they'd shown the bottom of the head, dripping blood. Not the wisest reply...

One of the greatest and wildest cover ideas any comic ever had. The cencorship idiots almost jailed the publisher if I remember right...

I like Toth, but I'm not as wild about him as I am about Basil Wolverton, Jim Steranko, Steve Ditko, Wally Wood...and Robt Wms, who I think is the maximum utmost. IDON MINE said:

Yep, part of the media witchhunt of that time. Blame comics for the society they portrait and cast away from bullshit politics that helped make them a fact.

Like artists didn't have it hard enough at that time, copeing with changing work standards! Always good to close a work option and then not opening up five new ones to fill the gap.

Oh I'm getting carried away!

Any other genre classics you read? How about Toth's HOT RODD and Car Comics?





movingV said:

That was before some Senate committee investigating violent comics. Some asshat asked Wm C Gaines whether he thought the cover was in bad taste, and Gaines said it wou'd've been in bad taste if they'd shown the bottom of the head, dripping blood. Not the wisest reply...

One of the greatest and wildest cover ideas any comic ever had. The cencorship idiots almost jailed the publisher if I remember right...

Yep, part of the media witchhunt of that time. Blame comics for the society they portrait and cast away from bullshit politics that helped make them a fact. Like artists didn't have it hard enough at that time, copeing with changing work standards! Always good to close a work option and then not opening up five new ones to fill the gap. Oh I'm getting carried away! Any other genre classics you read? How about Toth's HOT RODD and Car Comics? movingV said:

That was before some Senate committee investigating violent comics. Some asshat asked Wm C Gaines whether he thought the cover was in bad taste, and Gaines said it wou'd've been in bad taste if they'd shown the bottom of the head, dripping blood. Not the wisest reply...

One of the greatest and wildest cover ideas any comic ever had. The cencorship idiots almost jailed the publisher if I remember right...

That was before some Senate committee investigating violent comics. Some asshat asked Wm C Gaines whether he thought the cover was in bad taste, and Gaines said it wou'd've been in bad taste if they'd shown the bottom of the head, dripping blood. Not the wisest reply...

One of the greatest and wildest cover ideas any comic ever had. The cencorship idiots almost jailed the publisher if I remember right...

SAM is the MAN! He's got the most awesome way of drawing. What else: Awesometastic MONSTERS! CHECK IT OUT! THIS SHIT IS FREEESH!!!! SAM HITI blog! CLICK, CLICK! SAM HITI's SITE where you can get his awesome COMICS! I HOPE YOU CAN DIG IT, CAUSE I LOVE IT!

Editorial Reviews Product Description Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at the vortex of History. Dwight Holly is J. Edgar Hoover’s pet strong-arm goon, implementing Hoover’s racist designs and obsessed with a leftist shadow figure named Joan Rosen Klein. Wayne Tedrow—ex-cop and heroin runner—is building a mob gambling mecca in the Dominican Republic and quickly becoming radicalized. Don Crutchfield is a window-peeping kid private-eye within tantalizing reach of right-wing assassins, left-wing revolutionaries and the powermongers of an incendiary era. Their lives collide in pursuit of the Red Goddess Joan—and each of them will pay “a dear and savage price to live History.” Political noir as only James Ellroy can write it—our recent past razed and fully reconstructed—Blood’s A Rover is a novel of astonishing depth and scope, a massive tale of corruption and retribution, of ideals at war and the extremity of love. It is the largest and greatest work of fiction from an American master. About the Author James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L.A. Quartet novels—The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz—were international best sellers. His novel American Tabloid was Time magazine’s Best Book (fiction) of 1995; his memoir, My Dark Places, was a Time Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book for 1996. His novel The Cold Six Thousand was a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book for 2001. Ellroy lives in Los Angeles.

I need to add: It's a totally stone cold heart craqcking Thriller ride. When I was done, I didn't know what hit me. Suspense, a dose of Trash that Gilbert weaves in with alot of verve, terrible killings that ain't cool to watch and don't make you giggle. It's hardcore down to the bone of every victim dead. The classic 50's style (Archie Comics...) way of drawing is just adding up to the uncomfortable feeling of it all. If you dig all that, there is swell hardcover out from DARK HORSE, but I also dearly recommend the single copies because the paper is good old news printy! IDON MINE said:

GILBERT HERNANDEZ - Speak of the Devil!

Guy Davis - THE MARQUIS

Don't worry it ain't french erotica from the 1800's written by a englishman. It's one of the few Horror Comics that read different and actually hilarious, eventhough to their gruesome sights! Chilly!

GILBERT HERNANDEZ - Speak of the Devil!

Pigmeat said:

I'm working my way thru a stack of Russian classics that I picked up at a charity shop for 10 pence each... So far Goncharovs "Oblomov" and Lermontovs "Hero of Our Time" come out on top... Thats discounting Dostoevsky who was by far the best russian writer... Tolstoy sucks ass...
Although I might quit the russians for awhile and pick up Celines "Jouney to the End of the Night" again...

Well, they say you're either a Dostoevsky fan or a Tolstoy fan, never both. I'm with you. I also love "Journey", but I haven't read any other Celine.

Andy Seven said:

I'm re-reading "Red Harvest" by Dashiell Hammett, and I'm liking it more now than before.

I haven't read Red Harvest, but The Maltese Falcon is one of favorite books, and movies too for that matter. If anyone is interested, my friend Michael is writing a hard-boiled detective novel called Behind the Green Curtain and publishing chapter by chapter on his blog.

Aside from essays by Lester Bangs and H.L. Mencken, I'm into a bunch of comics: a history of Students for a Democratic Society in comic-book form written by Harvey Pekar with some former SDSers, and anthologies of Doctor Strange and a D.C. golden age superhero called the Spectre (both are pretty cheesy, but the former has some good artwork by Steve Ditko).

arkive said:

I just finished Blood Electric by Kenji Siratori. Insane experimental Japanese cyberpunk. Totally deviant and twisted. Highly recommended.

I've been on a Cormac McCarthy kick (yeah I know No Country For Old Men, how cliche). I re-read Blood Meridian two weeks ago. That damn book gets better every time.

Getting ready to teach Temple of the Golden Pavilion to my youngins, so I'll be re-reading that this week.

Nice. I read No Country a few months ago, which is damn fine, and I just finished an early McCarthy novel called Child of God. It's about an Ed Gein type who lives in a cave in Tennessee and spies on and then kills people. Typical McCarthy atavism, extremity, and other such jollity.

Very cool gear...have to track it down.
A friend of mine does her own creepin' horror shorts, I'll have to post some here.

Aaaannd "prfffleet" is probably my favourite sound!

Vampira looks like a cool lady!

Please give him a check out if you will! HOT STUFF! This is coming out later this summer. Aaaaand cars play a part! Besides his new book, Mr. Cypress is a fantastic example of how to keep B/W Comics alive with a thrill!

C'mon, there must be something.

I don't know if it came up already, but is anybody here writing? Pulps, or fiction or short stories, prose, poetry.... The Haiku contest on the MIKE KAISER Show got mad response, so maybe you bookworms are doing things yourself??? SHOW OFF here please!

HEY GALS AND GUYS!

HOW ABOUT DROPPING DRAWINGS HERE A BIT MORE OFTEN??
IT WOULD BE AWESOME TO SEE WHAT YOU ARE WORKING ON DAY IN, NIGHT OUT:
FOR FUN, FOR WORK, FOR BANDS. DOODLES. WHATEVER.

BRING IT ON, SAVAGE PENCILS!

 

PS: Please keep it on the rough and looney side here, post your ramblings - in drawn form, sketches, process, stiches and things. Anything that let's people smell the organic in your stuff! Exchange a bit with the other artists here if you so want. To make this sound a bit more elitist even: Anything Hideout related, like the Hideout Comp covers, or anything else only shown and grown here and nowhere else is great! Confused? Good!

For finished things outside of and pimping your BLOGS and all please use the SHOW ME YOUR WORK thread, ok's? THANKS!