Archive for the 'Music' Category
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
On his blog, Canadian illustrator and cartoonist Michael Cho has published a few of the illustrations he made for the opera Les Aventures de Mme Merveille. This opera, written by Cecil Castellucci and currently getting geared up for production by the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal (premiere on May 6), represents quite a unique event, as it combines operatic music with comic book imagery :
Singing, illustrations, video projections and staging come together to recount four highly imaginative stories: The fight of a super heroine against the evil Mr. Dégoût, a fifties love story, the detective enquiry of François and his dog Pax and an interstellar combat.
Other cartoonists working on this production are fellow Canadians Pascal Girard, Scott Hepburn (who’s also published some previews from it on his blog) and Cameron Stewart.
I do hope the result will be broadcast in some way…
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
I knew Stan Getz had style, but this album cover from 1978 kind of suprised me.
(Peanuts © United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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Saturday, February 20th, 2010
DJ Coolbreeze did this unofficial mixtape featuring music by Canadian actor and rapper Drake. Should be around on the net if you’re interested.
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Sunday, January 31st, 2010
I was cleaning out some boxes that took up space, and came across this CD-single by Flemish singer-commedian (and quite succesful comic writer) Urbanus. It features a quite risqué, albeit very funny and naive sort of song, but for some reason it hadn’t occurred to me at the time (the single’s more than 15 years old) that the cover was done by none other than atom style wizard David Merveille. He even did a nice little cat on the back (doubtlessly referencing the wordplay on “pussy” that featured all through the song).
So, David, if you read this : we know where you’ve been 
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Comics inspiration where you wouldn’t expect it. On the left : Belgian electro DJ Dr Lectroluv, while on the right, Gold Key Comics’ Dr. Solar. Eee-rie !
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Sunday, June 21st, 2009
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Sunday, May 31st, 2009
The Cartoonist points towards a great initiative : Draw Serge, an tribute to French singer, songwriter and enfant terrible, Serge Gainsbourg. The site was set up by Jonathan Edwards, and features contributions by illustrators and cartoonists like Will Kane, Darryl Cunningham and Dave Shelton.
Another one for the Google Reader.
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Saturday, May 30th, 2009
I love Raphael Sadeeq’s own brand of retro-soul, and I am struck by the way French illustrator Arnette Marnat has been able to capture his complete persona in one single portrait. Great stuff !
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
The Smithereens celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Who’s seminal rock opera Tommy (incidentally, one of my all time favourite albums) with a version of their own of the complete album. And what’s more, they asked cartoonist and fantasy painter William Stout to do the artwork. And a great work he did, using the iconic layout of the 1950’s EC horror comics to evoke the angst and the tense atmosphere of the album.
Stout has a history with The Who projects, as he previously also provided the artwork for two bootleg double albums in the early seventies. For The Smithereens, this isn’t the first comic-related project either : for a previous cover projects, B-sides the Beatles, they asked Jack Davis to do the cover artwork (after the break).
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