FLOG! Entries tagged 'VIVA LA COMIX' http://www.fantagraphics.com Tue, 21 May 2013 11:40:41 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&amp;show=SWIPE-FILE-3772.html&amp;Itemid=113 <p><img src="images/flog/358/screenthrills01.jpg" alt=" " width="445" height="596" /></p><p>Screen Thrills Illustrated to...</p><p><img src="images/flog/358/Lloyd1.jpg" alt=" " width="445" height="663" /></p><p>Dan Clowes to...</p><p><img src="images/flog/358/miller.jpg" alt=" " width="445" height="586" /></p><p>Frank Miller to... </p> jmiles VIVA LA COMIX http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&amp;show=VIVA-LA-COMIX-2904.html&amp;Itemid=113 <a href="http://kevinnowlan.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">&quot;I had a terrific sable brush working for me that week so I was able to do some fine feathering on his bald head and arm hair.&quot;</a> <p>&nbsp;Sigh... music to my ears. </p> jmiles VIVA LA COMIX http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&amp;show=VIVA-LA-COMIX.html&amp;Itemid=113 <p>From <a href="http://zippythepinhead.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&amp;Product_Code=arcade4&amp;Category_Code=ruc&amp;Product_Count=19" target="_blank">ARCADE #4</a> , winter 1975, edited Al Floogleman &amp; Griffy</p><p>&quot;Your violent thrashings stir me.&nbsp; From where are you people pulling the energy?&nbsp; It&#39;s a great trick, awareness and buoyancy.&nbsp; Yours is still the art &#39;that knows not its name,&#39; down and dangerous, some of the only art around still life-impelled beyond its theory (that&#39;s decadence).&nbsp; There&#39;s a lot of dada ghosts riding their hopes on you; stay as unregenerate as you are.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Jacobs" target="_blank">Ken Jacobs&nbsp; </a></p><p>&nbsp;<img src="images/flog/358/JacobsMonkey.jpg" alt=" " width="445" height="340" /></p><p>Six years ago I believed the above quote was just as relevant in 2003 as it probably was in 1975 to what was once commonly refered to as &quot;Underground Comix&quot; and then later commonly referred to as &quot;Alternative Comics.&quot;&nbsp; </p> jmiles VIVA LA COMIX Bill Griffith Al Floogleman