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Jazz Comics?

Captain Zoom

23:46 / 17.12.05

Hey all. I have a new addition to the family to buy for, and I don't know him all that well. I know he's into jazz music, and wondered if anyone had seen any graphic novels that deal with jazz?

Thanks in advance, folks.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:50 / 17.12.05

All I can think of off-hand is the early American Splendors in which Crumb and Pekar discuss jazz, like, obsessively.

I shall think a bit harder.

Jack Fear

00:42 / 18.12.05

Dave McKean's CAGES springs to mind.

Horatio Hellpop

00:55 / 18.12.05

there's the gerard jones/mark badger "batman: jazz" story. "the man from harlem" by guido crepax. the munoz & sampayo "billie holiday".

sleazenation

08:04 / 18.12.05

And Paul Pope's Ballad of Doctor Richardson also deals with the free form nature of jazz in an oblique way...

Alex's Grandma

09:11 / 18.12.05

Max Zillion and Alto Ego's adventures by Hunt Emerson is, I'd imagine, pretty much exactly what you're looking for, chief. Be-bop surrealism in the style of, but also pre-dating, 'Hate' - it should still be available from Knockabout Comics. Otherwise, from teh google.

I'm amazed though, that you, Stoat, and particularly you, Sleaze, would appear to be unfamiliar with this material.

I used to beblieve in you guys...

admiral sausage

09:23 / 18.12.05

The Classic Crumb books have quite a lot of jazz related stuff, Vols 13 and 14 especially, they have the Harvey Pekar stuff in them as well.

http://www.fantagraphics.com/artist/crumb/crumb.html

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:47 / 18.12.05

Sorry, Alex... I'm having to shut down various parts of my brain at the moment in order not to lower the tone with a "jazz mags" joke. It's impairing my recall somewhat.

sleazenation

10:49 / 18.12.05

Unfortunately my knowledge of Hunt Emerson's amazing output is cursory at best... which is unfortunate because he's like a combination of Gilbert Shelton and Robert Crumb, only British...

cages,

bar none.

Thank you, Barbeloids, oh wondrous fount of information that nowhere else can be delivered with such wit.

"Jazz mags" indeed

.

Happy Ho Ho, friends.

gem

11:57 / 21.12.05

steve lafler's bughouse (pub. top shelf) is the definitive jazz comic surely. it was also available for next to nothing in their clearance sale a while back, maybe you can still get it cheap.

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