I’ve been waiting to write about Phonogram. There are so many rock and roll comics to cover, so many different books with different approaches, and this one looms large. Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie’s series is, in my mind, the…
Tag: Pop Music Comic Books
Pop Music Comics: Steeltown Rockers
Growing up in a dead-end town, practicing guitar in the basement. Hoping music could be the ticket to something better. Ambitions of stardom, rehearsing the songs, taking any gig that comes along, imagining away the harsh realities of everyday life.…
Pop Music Comics: The Maniaks
I’ve discussed many of the ways that comics and rock and roll have intersected over the years, but there’s one particular type I’ve forgotten to mention ’til now: The blatant cash-in. The Monkees were the hottest thing around in 1967,…
Pop Music Comics: Twenty-Seven, Li’l Depressed Boy
Image Comics has a well-earned reputation as a home for both mainstream superhero titles and artist-driven alternative works, and over the past decade have published some of the most exciting and enjoyable comics I’ve run across. Many of these have…
Pop Music Comics: Red Rocket 7
Rock and roll often borrows from the wondrous milieu of comic books, adopting costumes, characters, names, and incidental iconography… Album covers, lyrical content, concert posters, concert staging, and even artists’ identities themselves are filtered through four-color prisms, building the mythology…
Pop Music Comics: Saturday Morning
Pop music and comic books share many sensibilities and influences, and often cross over in unexpected and interesting ways. Comic artists illustrate album covers, bands utilize four-color imagery in videos and live shows, musicians try their hands at writing and…
Pop Music Comics: Sonic Disruptors
Comic Books and Rock & Roll have a complex and entangled relationship, full of shared influences, common history, and thematic cross-pollination. Both started as disposable forms delivered in small doses, became emblematic of youth culture and rebellion in the cold…