SDCC Coverage sponsored by Mad Cave
And like that, Lost Media has become a digital archive. Arthur Magazine, a free newspaper of music, comics and counterculture, joined the chat. Free PDFs to view or download are hosted on our website. This is a very Internet Archive Entry Vibe Retention, with some folded pages and weathered pages in part of the scan (cough). but! Where else would you like to read Alan Moore’s thoughts on 9/11 and/or the ENO catalog? Watch the poor sailors cut into a single row and woven between blocks of articles about polyphonic fuss. It was full of surprises for those around me at the time, not an attractive, satisfying lump of lost media.
So, what is Arthur? Ah brothers. Magic, politics, drugs. Daily life and secret history. Heavy metal music and comic books. I think it’ll be a week. Bimonthly, actually. It’s free and initially set to Broadsheet Newsprint. Paper you get from the floor next to the doors of really cool bookstores and record stores 20 years ago.
It wasn’t sold, it wasn’t actually clocked, and I catalogued how things on store shelves are recorded and stored. The digitization of surviving hard copies (and presenting them without paywalls or ads) was done by co-founder Jay Babcock. Therefore, we strongly recommend that you donate to Jay as compensation for labor that maintains this resource.
Alan Moore’s cover interview is Arthur #4 (2003), but he also contributed to the aforementioned essay on #5 on 9/11, his eNO thanks in #17, his manifesto on porn in #24, and his memories in Veitch Questions (#33). Grant Morrison interviews are Arthur #12 (2004) and Rick Vitch Arthur #33 (2013). In addition to the days when these idiosyncratic people cast what they had to say in a new modern context, Arthur was interested in the magical aspects of creation, just like in the comics where these artists cast spells. So interviews are not something that most people are talking to them these days.
Rick Vicci
Arthur has Kevin Huizenga, Jordan Crane (his years of running, early excerpts from two recently collected), Sammy Harkam, Anders Nilsen (he has a new graphic novel called Tongue this year), Ron LegerJr, Mark Bell, Marc Bell, Marc Bell, Martin Sendreda, Garry Panter, Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Bell, (comic artist praiser) James Kochalka, Tom Hart, John Hankivich, and plastic criminals. The kind of artists who appeared in the Midwest USS Catastrophe scene, sheet cake-sized Kramer’s ergot anthology is a bunch of cartoonists who quickly move to the sub. Comics are grouped and highlighted as curated collections presented by underground publishers such as Highwater Books and Buenaventura Press. Sometimes, unlike more mainstream alt weekly publications, they shared pages with articles and ads, sometimes they were carved into lines and posted to margins like Mad Magazine. It’s a comic book mix, but it’s divided into comics like Arthur’s problem and comic strips, single panel gags, and other self-contained stories. But/and sometimes abstract illustrations instead of cartoons are also hippies.
John Polcellino Ron Leger Jr.
Music cover features include Kim Gordon, Katrina Ford, Gabilan Reina Rasm, Iggy Pop, Brian Eno, Dolly Parton, Animal Collective, Sun o)), Sparks, Joanna Newsom, Joe Strummer, and more. Alan Bishop of Paul Pope Art on the cover of Sublime Frequency Issues depicts a niqab girl with a jam box the size of a radio raheem. Deerhoof writes about venues of all ages. Thurston Moore reviews the media. T-Model Ford gives life advice. Ian Subenonius writes your horoscope. Prejudices against heavy metal, zoner, hippies, stoner music in general. Arthur really wants you to hear about the Grateful Dead.
Needless to say, ads. House ads for Shrimpey and Paul. American apparel bags are about positive body images and when they don’t develop an atmosphere of sexual assault. Hipster Record Label Season Release Slate Smorgas Board. Raw feed from time capsules. The people who kept Arthur free for their readers by treating the AD section as an opportunity are in fact a strange group. But it’s cool to imagine a comic publisher who is actively trying to reach not only readers of other comics, but also the audience of Lightning Bolt and Will Oldham fans. I really think Arthur is an interdisciplinary intersection of AHEM, where comics, music and history are all given equal cultural status, and a model that we all want to be adopted more widely.
So, enjoy the recovery of what has once again been forgotten and endangered, and support the cause. And to all of my readers, a major publisher: Where is sex?
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