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Cosmic Snake-Oil.

Alphonze Rhizome. This is one of my better comics. I like this one. You may need Acrobat to read it, and I'm afraid you'll have to drag the image around to be able to clock it properly.

Vashti.

Disgraceful!

Comic Reviews.

Usually when I come across reviews of records as cartoons I groan. (groan). Like this one from a back issue of Audion. (groan).

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Wasn't someone doing this sort of thing for Vice Mag too. (groan).

But look at these, by Nick Sylvester at Pitchfork, for a review of the Daft Punk Remix LP. See them in their original context, along with Nick's witty commentary, here. Classic stuff.

Glad to be "Gay"

My friend's Michel Magne record sleeve reminded me of Gerard Hoffnung. Hoffnung is a strange beast. He's an example of that unholy creature, a parasite on a different mode of expression. In this way he's rather like the music journalist, well of course he IS a kind of music journalist. This type of parasite never gets the respect that the practitioner themself gets, and what he produces is always seen as a charming but inferior "art." Like we care! There's always been a strong strain of music fetishism (and the collector's pathology) in comics, one only has to look at the Crumb/Zwigoff axis for evidence.

I went to a Hoffnung concert in Edinburgh once (aged 14) and it was brilliant; like his drawings the perfect antidote to classical music's stuffiness. The performance I remember most clearly featured a singer on stage who was repeatedly interrupted by someone in the audience coughing (if memory serves). The soloist went from frustration, to consoling the woman (a plant, which *REALLY* shocked and delighted me at the time), offering her a glass of water, to striking up an amorous duet with her. Well it's just pure Cagean/Kagellian buffonery innit!

Hoffnung's drawings have that charming (usually infuriating) quality of classical music culture, that of delicacy and piety. One word sums up the mood of his work to my mind, "gay." And I mean here, "gay" in it's old usage. It's a shame people aren't "gay" anymore. They're either rushing on joy or smugly content. I like "gay" people. I like gay people too!

Liquidamente 1956

His Master's Voice 1953

Bass Flute 1955

The Flute and the Piccolo Flute 1955

Tenor 1956

West Country Prog.

Don't know why I didn't produce this* when Prog Fever was sweeping the Nerdosphere, but if k-punk can still talk Prog, well so can I! I'm quite fond of this doodle, particularly the smoldering sexual and financial undercurrents...however the narrative is a bit, er, tangental .

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I draw badly too...

It's been blown all out of proportion {No I wouldn't call it Techno/I never thought he had it in him} Being the third part of my "epic" IDM Satirical Trilogy of 1996. This SHOULD have dated! The title has a (pompous) formalist twist, comics are always drawn large and then shrunk down to give them punch; this was drawn the size of a postage stamp and.....follow me?

I may be a donkey, but at least I'm not an ass.

I never thought he had it in him.

Paul Auster here, hope you like my rudimentary drawings. Big shaat aat to all the post-punk crew.

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He's the Drummer in a Free Jazz Band.

No I wouldn't Call it Techno.

Hot on the heels of the Detroit Extravanganza here is one of my favourite comics from 1994.

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On a darker note ;-)

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Rian Bone.

Just for the record, after I "Photocopy-Published" this I sent Brian a copy. I got a letter back from Eno describing it as "intriguing"* (ha ha). However he wanted to make it quite clear that he "doesn't use marajuana, finding it stifles (his) creativity." Got it?

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Poor old Kodwo!

If there's one thing worse than having your records burnt in a fire . It's having them nicked, as in: "Where's the body to bury?"

If I can find the Enforcers 6&7 (I know where some are) he can have them for free, the bill's on me. Such largesse! All Kodwo has to do in return is set up a blog.......(cackles)

Black Dog Story.

Quite soon after I put out this photocopied comic in record stores in 1996, I was the grateful recipient of His Royal Canine's generosity. Consequently I have the missing pieces I didn't then. Check the recent TBD stuff and Ken's lively boards.....it's all good!

Limonious.

This Limonious guy's stuff is ace. He's the Pedro Bell of dancehall.