This weekend, April 13-15, McCormick Place in Chicago will play host to C2E2 (the Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo) and we will be there on Friday, April 13 at 6:30pm, in room N426b, to present and moderate a panel that ties into our “pop music…
Tag: Pop Music Comic Books
Pop Music Comics: Twenty-Seven, Second Set
The second story arc of 27 picks up a few months after the close of the first series. The fallen rock star William Garland is learning to live with the mysterious device that turned his life upside-down, and deal with…
Pop Music Comics: Archie Meets KISS
KISS has a long history in comic books, having appeared in a number of publications from Marvel (detailed here and here) and starring in series from Image Comics and Platinum Studios. The band’s appearance lends itself well to the comic…
Pop Music Comics: Eddie Campbell’s The Ace Rock ‘n’ Roll Club
In the late 70s, Eddie Campbell wrote and drew a handful of short stories tracing the ins and outs of a group of Teddy Boys in Southend. He called them “In The Days Of The Ace Rock ‘n’ Roll Club”,…
Pop Music Comics: The 90s, part four. Cheap Trick, The Elvis Mandible
In 1990, powerpop band Cheap Trick released a new album entitled Busted, and they partnered with Marvel to release a comic as part of their publicity campaign. A promo-only item, it’s an eight-page black and white pamphlet that tells the…
Pop Music Comics: The 90s, part three. Roger Corman & The Melvins, and more KISS
The 1990s was a boom period for rock & roll music. The success of Nirvana was followed by a glut of records from ‘next big things’, and record companies were signing rock bands left and right. Indie acts that had…
Pop Music Comics: The 90s, part two. Prince.
In 1989, DC Comics formed a new imprint for experimental and avant-garde titles. Piranha Press only lasted a few years, but their impact is still being felt today. They gave a home to creator-owned works, the edgy and unusual, and along the way…
Pop Music Comics: The 90s, part one. Rock-It Comics, Revolutionary, Marvel Music, Grateful Dead Comix.
In the early 1990s, the comic market was exploding. New publishers were springing up in an attempt to catch a piece of the craze, existing companies were introducing new titles right and left, investors were entering the field and speculating…
Pop Music Comics: Brilliant! Tragic! (inspired by the songs Of Art Brut)
There’s a category of pop comic that I haven’t really discussed yet: the anthology devoted to a specific band/musician. Starting in the mid 90s with Kitchen Sink’s Grateful Dead Comix and continuing through the musician-themed volumes from Image Comics in…
Pop Music Comics: Marvel Super Special (KISS, The Beatles, Rock And Rule)
In 1977, Marvel Comics launched a new publication: a full-color magazine-format title entitled Marvel Super Special. This title was intended to showcase stand-alone stories that were too long to fit in a normal 32 page comic, and to provide Marvel…