Kapow! Podcast part 1
April 15th, 2011
Hey you! A bunch of us went to Kapow! Look! Proof!
Not the Mindless Ones. Shut up, Lactus
In this first part of our thrilling adventure we have some scene setting from Gary Lactus and a recording of Saturday morning’s 2000AD Panel.
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A Year Without Cider week 11
April 10th, 2011
Danny Noble’s cartoon diary of abstinence. You can also read her Monday Morning strip here.
The Amusing Brothers, Andrew and Steven.
April 5th, 2011
A weekly strip by Fraser Geesin
Three Fools – Part 2: Miller and Varley’s Joker
April 4th, 2011
The second of three post’s looking at seminal takes on the Joker. Part 1 here.
I. Super Creep
“Do you want lipstick, sweet guy?”
I was five years old when Ashes to Ashes went to number one but I vividly remember how much the video disturbed me and continued to do so right up into my teens. There’s an intensity to it that few big name promos before or since have even attempted let alone matched, and why would they? Loosely centered around Bowie’s clown and a troupe of Blitz kids dressed in high fashion’s answer to mourning dress marching along a solarised beach, followed by a bulldozer, the video has the feel of a funeral set on some faraway peninsula of David Lynch’s imagination. The overall effect is alienated, surreal and ominous, reeking of drug addiction and mental illness, and while fans will detect an air of deep introspection this does nothing to create a more comfortable space.
Coming into his teenage years and young adulthood during the 70s and 80s respectively, Miller would have been steeped in Bowie’s career and protean flight through his various personae – aesthetically driven fiction suits which the mega star inhabited both on stage and to some extent in real life – so it comes as no surprise that a writer with his sensibilities would have produced a Joker that seems to borrow, intentionally or not, from Bowie’s iconographic legacy.
A Year Without Cider week 10
April 2nd, 2011
Danny Noble’s cartoon diary of abstinence. You can also read her Monday Morning strip here.
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