By Shaenon Okay. Garrity
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Graphic variations of flicks, books, and TV exhibits are singing the identical previous tune. Right here’s one other tune to check out: graphic novels that tackle pop music and musicians, together with fictional tales based mostly on musical muses, band backstories, and tribute anthologies honoring rock legends. The Eisner-nominated Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes, printed by Z2, is only one instance of a burgeoning style of tie-ins. NBM additionally commonly publishes musician graphic bios, corresponding to Nina Simone in Comics.
Headshell, a brand new imprint at Vault Comics, is the newest outfit to put money into the idea that followers of musicians can even begin gathering comics. “There’s an instinct to place up fences when folks from different media come to play within the graphic novel panorama,” says Damian Wassel, CEO and writer of Vault. “However the actuality is that these folks have made their careers as extraordinary artists with nice concepts.”
Between Two Sounds: Arvo Pärt’s Journey to His Musical Language
Joonas Sildre, trans. from the Estonian by Adam Cullen. Plough, Sept.
Sildre’s distinctive biography of the experimental Estonian composer finds novel methods to visualise his revolutionary sound. The comics storytelling “interprets the minimalist magnificence and energy of Pärt’s music to the web page,” per PW’s starred evaluate. Plough is collaborating with the Arvo Pärt Middle in Estonia on live shows and occasions to advertise the discharge.
Dying Inside
Pete Wentz, Hannah Klein, and Lisa Sterle. Headshell, Sept.
A suicidal teenage woman inadvertently turns into immortal on this story cowritten by Fall Out Boy bassist Wentz. The launch title for Vault’s new rock-themed Headshell imprint, it’s packaged with bonus materials together with a QR code to a efficiency by Daisy Grenade. Upcoming titles will characteristic work by Slash of Weapons N’ Roses, Redman, and members of Def Leppard, Metallica, and the Seaside Boys—and an entire comics universe created by Submit Malone.
Elise and the New Partisans
Dominique Grange and Tardi. Fantagraphics, Sept.
Singer and activist Grange, as a rising French pop star, turned radicalized by the Algerian Conflict within the Sixties and devoted her life to preventing social injustice. Grange’s husband, the Eisner-winning artist Jacques Tardi, recounts her story in a semi-fictional graphic novel set within the heady avenue lifetime of Paris, drawn in Tardi’s signature daring strains. The title comes from Grange’s hit 1968 protest tune “Les Nouveaux Partisans.”
Moon Man
Scot “Child Cudi” Mescudi, Kyle Higgins, and Marco Locati. Picture, Nov.
Grammy-winning rapper Mescudi and Batman author Higgins co-script this sci-fi superhero story about an astronaut remodeled by a mysterious expertise in outer area. The primary installment of the six-issue miniseries, to be collected in November, is already on its third printing from Picture.
No Regret: The Illustrated True Tales of Lemmy Kilmister and Motörhead
Varied. Z2, July
The eclectic lineup of contributors to this tribute anthology of comics, which is timed to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Motörhead’s founding, contains members of the band; fellow musicians corresponding to Ozzy Osbourne, Dave Grohl, and Chrissie Hynde; comics creators like Neil Gaiman and Jim Mahfood; and a broad swathe of notable followers together with filmmaker Penelope Spheeris and professional wrestler Triple H.
ODB: Oddities, Discord & B-Sides—Lyrical Ruckus within the Metropolis
Ike Reed et al. Oni, Nov.
On this Kickstarter-funded anthology, Russell Tyrone Jones, aka Ol’ Soiled Bastard, guides readers by a fractured New York Metropolis bristling with “kung fu motion, sci-fi strangeness, romance, and peculiar horror,” based on the rapper’s son, Younger Soiled Bastard. Contributors embrace Paris Alleyne, Damion Scott, Felipe Sobreiro, and Ronald Wimberly.
A model of this text appeared within the 05/27/2024 problem of Publishers Weekly below the headline: Music to the Eyes
