More New Stuff for June

Episode Three of Babyhead is now online! In other news, the Topposhop over at Redbubble now features Tshirts and stickers sporting Sonic Nova's illustration of Thea from Red Envelope, and Norma & Margie from the Norma & Margie animated short.

New Stuff for June

Episode Two of Babyhead is now online for you fine folks to check out! I'm still feeling my way through the process, but I'm starting to find a groove, and should be able to get future episodes out more frequently. The ToppoShop is now online as well, where you can find a Tshirt and stickers featuring a Sonic Nova illustration of Hokus Krokus, a character from Norma & Margie. In other news, the ever-rambunctious Nova will be the featured artist at Mom & Pops Tattoo and Piercing's Anniversary Party on Saturday, June 10th. Troy City Comix Issues One and Two are also available for sale here if you can't make it to the party and need some sonic madness.

Street Fighting Man

STREET FIGHTING MAN is a feature-length, character-driven documentary that follows three inner-city men – each a generation apart – as they seek to define their lives in post-industrial Detroit. Deris Solomon is a young single father who wants to leave behind a high-risk life on the streets; Luke Williams is a middle-aged man remodeling a former crack house after being homeless for several years; and James “Jack Rabbit” Jackson is a retired police officer struggling to save his neighborhood from crime after the local police station is dissolved. Through the stories of these men, the film unflinchingly reveals how hard it can be to build a future when everything seems to be crumbling around you.

Twin Goat Complete Recording of New Album

Husband and wife experimental/country/dub/psychedelic duo from Providence, RI. Twin Goat have just completed their fourth album for the RPM challenge, "Where Are The Ghosts?"

Click Here to stream tracks from "Where Are The Ghosts?"

Click Here to check out some of Twin Goat's other records.

Kids Comics LA at Meltdown Comics

Meltdown Comics will be holding Kids Comics L.A., an interactive day of comics, creativity, and family fun on Saturday, December 4th, 2010. Organized with Sam Humphries (CBGB, Fraggle Rock, MySpace Comics) the free event will introduce young readers to comics, and creators who will teach the attendees how to create their own comics.

Creators participating in the event include Ian Brill (Darkwing Duck and Rescue Rangers for BOOM! Kids Comics), David Server and Jackson Lanzing (Penguins of Madagascar for Ape Entertainment), and Chris and Shane Houghton (Reed Gunther).

Artoberfest at MillBilly Art Studio

Sonic Nova, Kriss Bliss, and dozens of other artists will be showing their work at the Artoberfest Art Show at MillBilly Art Studio from 3pm to 1pm this Saturday. Go and check it out. Costumes are encouraged!

Click here to view the facebook invite.


MillBilly Art Studio
395 Pleasant St.
Durfee Mills - Bldg.#11
(across from General Fitness)
Fall River, MA

Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods at Meltdown Comics

About seven years ago I was making ends meet as an assistant in the Videogame division at Twentieth Century Fox. I can't say the position was a nonstop cavalcade of fun, but it did have its moments, especially when it occasionally involved one of my favorite pursuits: Comics. My good friend David Stalker was looking for a writer for a licensed game relaunch, and shared with me his idea of using a comic book writer to remold an intellectual property that was long in the tooth. I had recently come across writer Grant Morrison's website, so I took a shot in the dark and sent an email to the site's webmaster about Morrison potentially writing for the game, hoping that they would forward along my inquiry to him. It turned out that Morrison's manager & girlfriend-now-wife Kristan actually ran the site, and we started talking about the possibility of getting together the next time they were in Los Angeles. After a few months and a dinner that involved a bit too much wine for my bodyweight, Morrison got the gig, and I got an inside look at how a genius writes for a project with a million moving pieces while simultaneously assuaging the proprietal concerns of a vertically integrated media monster. For an aspiring writer like myself at the time, this was priceless.

Needless to say, the experience inspired me to keep up with all things Morrison, and when I read that Meltdown Comics in LA would be screening Patrick Meaney's documentary Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods, I made a beeline down Sunset Boulevard to check it out. The store's gallery where the screening was held was packed, but they squeezed me in after a quick handstamp from the ever-vigilant Chris Rosa.

The documentary is impressive, not just in terms of its production value, but in terms of its structure. Most documentaries are structured to tell a narrative, but GMTWD is actually a polymyth, layered to tell multiple narratives. In addition to the narrative of Morrison's own journey as a writer, the documentary presents the evolution of the superhero in American Comics, and ultimately the arc of the mindset of Morrison's audience and how we view the world, from the decade of potential that was the 90s, to the low of 9/11 to the uncertainty of today. The doc will be available to purchase at Amazon next week, but if you live in LA, you can get it for $15 at Meltdown right now.

Here's the trailer:



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