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NNNNNNOOOOOOOO, you little teases you! Well when I saw the video was 52 minutes (or there abouts) I kinda reckoned it'd be a two parter with the second over at Chris' wonderful 'Off My Shelves' channel. Great selecrtions so far. Cash is one of the few comics I've bought my wife and she loved it. I'm not sure if it will appear on either list but Jeff Rougvie and Moritat's Gunning For Hits is a fantastic insight into the late 80s music scene from the business end. Well worth checking out. I'd also recommend Ian Shirley's prose book 'Can Rock and Roll Save the World?' a history of comics and music. Really good read.
Ah, my two favourite comic RUclipsrs 😊💜 (Don't let your heads get too big 😂) A brilliant choice of topic as it's not something that I think has been covered much before! (And sadly for my wallet, I don't have most of these XD) "No honourable mentions allowed" 😂 He still managed to sneak one in 🤣 I now regret sitting on The Fifth Beatle so long, as it's one of the oldest items in my wishlist :') I was watching the time count down and wondering how you were going to fit the last 6 in 😂 Looking forward to part 2!
Not sure if Chris noticed how Angshuman almost casually slipped in ”honorable mentions” by suggesting to guess at the end what comics we viewers would’ve like to had included😅Such a smooth move. I almost panicked as the time was running out not knowing this is two parter. Quite interesting angle for Top-list. My mind was completely blank. Well, maybe one comic that might have fitted the bill came to my mind. You guys are very different and the outcome is great chemistry. Definitely deserves Part 2 - and more🤘🏻
Shhh! I was trying to keep it in for the record but still have it go by quickly. As it turns out, we may not have gotten the opportunity. Thanks so much for the kind words, and I hope you enjoy the next part as well! And I'm also hoping that your list grows, both from recommendations as well as unlocks !
Ah yes! Been waiting on you two reuniting since forever ! Two of my favourite RUclipsrs in conversation after a long time ! So looking forward to watching it! ❤
A Silent Hell and Scott Pilgrim would have been in my choices, and the Johnny Cash book is currently sitting in my 'to read' pile! Other books that jump to mind are: Phonogram by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie Hardcore Anxiety by Reid Chancellor I Love This Part by Tillie Walden Zebedee and The Valentines by Abs Bailey Hopeless Savages by Jen Van Meter
Insert gif of me hurriedly making notes... I only know I Love This Part, although Savages sounds familiar - was Brian Lee O'Malley involved? As always, thank you!
@@ftloc yes! It's been a very long time since I read it, but I think he wrote and drew a story in the complete collection. I'm going to have to get it off the shelf to give it a re-read!
@@mrbakarkhaniabsolutely thrilled to hear it! I've wanted to do these crossovers for years, but lacked the know how and confidence. I really have to credit viewers and commenters like yourself for encouraging me to attempt different things on the channel! ♥️
Likes the guest appearances but I want a comic hunt series and a new channel (ftloc vlog) with his wife that will be more integrated with search of comics in india or anywhere you live .
At the onset, my first thoughts is Jem and the Holograms and Love & Rockets are the two comics about music that come to mind. Jem and the Holograms shows music on the page well. Love & Rockets shows the culture around music well.
Jem and the Holograms! Talk about a blast from my ancient past! Thank you for reminding me of that! And L&R spent a lot of time in my musings, but ultimately I went with 5 picks which had music as a more 'instrumental' element 😁
@@ftloc I could see justification for L&R to be on or off the list. I like the way it uses the culture but, like movie making, it isn't really about the music.
Great to see you two collaborating! Can't wait to find out what your top 3 is going to be. I personally almost never read any music related biographies, so my top 5 is allmost all fictional. 1. Doomboy by Tony Sandoval 2. Into the pines by Erik Kriek 3. Love in Vain by Mezzo and Dupont 4. Crossroads by Paco Roca 5. Ballad for sophie by Filipe Melo and Juan Cavia 5b. Punk rock and trailer parks by Derf Backderf 5c. I Was a Punk Before You Were a Punk by Bert Henning
@@ftlocI really loved part 2. There also is one music comic that I've been trying to get my hands on for a decent price for quite a while. The Kiss kompendium. Not because I think it's any good but just because it's pure kitsch. And because I like comic rarities. 3D comics, very small or big comics, a comic about a surgeon that needs to be cut open page by page or the first (european) completely digital drawn comic. Just to name some examples. Is that something you're also interested in?
I do like oddities! But not necessarily because something is the first or oldest, more like things that are truly unique and unusual, even if they are not completely 'successful' 😁 I don't know anything about Kiss other than what I learned from the Edward Furlong starring Detroit Rock City! 🤣
Another project Kyle Baker worked on, Deep Cuts, is one of my favorite series of I think last year (maybe early this year, or spread between them). It is this really interesting exploration of music, history, and character. I got it in floppies and they were these really nice, glue binding thick issues (I used to know what this format is actually called), and had a bunch of music related extras in the back. Highly recommend
Ooh, thank you, that really piques my curiosity! As for that format, do you perhaps mean squarebound floppies? Like the original issues of From Hell, The Escapist, and the Mignola Fafrd and Grey Mouser?
@@ftloc I do mean square bound. The trade came out in May, and the series was split over 23 and 24. Also, I misremembered, it is Kyle Higgins, not Baker, my b. Still a recommendation, especially for a music comic
What an interesting video! I loved Angshuman comment about that Blacksad page: "you can hear that page. It's very loud." Anyway, the only music comic I could think of is a manga, Blue Giant by Shinichi Ishizuka. I could hear the saxophone in every page :)
I have a European comic album called FM. It's a collection of short stories that Argentinian writer Jorge Zentner and Spanish artist Ruben Pellejero did in the 1980s inside Spanish comic magazine Cimoc. Sadly it doesn't exist in English. Not all stories have music as a backdrop, but all are centered around a radio broadcast.
Bryan Lee O'Malley has stated that Beck was an inspiration for him while working on Scott Pilgrim. Whether that was the manga or anime I need to double check on, but he did make mention of it during a talk with John Kelly at Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) the other weekend.
How about comics that were released alongside an original music soundtrack? I’m actually working on a short audio/visual comic project with a friend, so very intrigued to see what else is out there!
I've seen a couple of comics that come bundled with CDs, but an outright soundtrack to read to? I don't recall any right now. I appreciate all that can be listed! 😁
I suppose the most musically oriented comic that I’ve ever read has to be Phonogram. As a side note it is a series that really made me appreciate Manic Street Preachers as a band.
@ftloc The Archies is an Archie Publication 2018. It was a mini series about how the Riverdale gang start a band and tour. the comic series comes with a "suggested playlist" of music to listen to while reading the series.
Alice Cooper and Neil Gaiman captured the album Last Temptation well, but most of the other Alice Cooper comics, and Kiss comics, do not truly capture the musicians characters.
The subject is definitely interesting. Unfortunately not many works are available in english so here´s my small contribution. Cheers Ballad for Sophie (by Filipe Melo & Juan Cavia, Top Shelf Productions 2021) Love in Vain: Robert Johnson - 1911-1938 (by Mezzo & Jean-Michel Dupont, Faber & Faber 2016) O Diabo e Eu (The Devil and Me) (by Alcimar Frazão, Edições Polvo 2015) available IN PORTUGUESE Leonard Cohen: On a wire (Drawn and Quarterly 2021) Blue In Green (Image 2020) Paul Is Dead, When The Beatles lost McCartney (Image 2020) Fats Waller (Casterman 2017) IN FRENCH Krent Ables Big Book Of Mischief (by Krent Able, Knockabout Comics 2012) Total jazz (by Blutch, Fantagraphics 2018) Bluesman: La maldición de Barry Brown (by Raúl Ariño, Nuevo Nueve Editores 2020) available in SPANISH & FRENCH Avery's Blues (by Angux & Núria Tamarit, Dibbuks 2016) available in SPANISH & FRENCH El Pequeño Libro Del Rock (by Hervé Bourhis, Norma Editorial 2021) available in SPANISH & FRENCH Days Like This (by J. Torres & Scott Chantler, Oni Press 2003) Original Hot Jazz, Max Zillion & Alto Ego (by Hunt Emerson, Knockabout 1996) Billie Holiday (by Carlos Sampayo & José Muñoz, NBM Publishing Company, 2017)
@@ftloc For sure. You may want to check these also... Golden Boy - Beethoven's Youth (2022/Fantagraphics) All Tomorrow's Parties - The Velvet Underground Story (by Koren Shadmi, Humanoids 2023). Cheers...
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Two of my favourite comic RUclipsrs together! Great to see 🤙🏼
Many many thanks 🖖🏽and keep an eye out for Part 2 next weekend!
Love both your channels and perspectives. I absolutely adore Blacksad and have A Silent Hell in my TBR pile. Need to bump it to the top of the list!
Thank you! And here's hoping for that BUMP! 😊
Two of my favorite channels!! Awesome collab
Thrilled you enjoyed it!
More conversations please! Y'all are very fun to listen to.
Part 2 now up, in case you didn't know!
NNNNNNOOOOOOOO, you little teases you! Well when I saw the video was 52 minutes (or there abouts) I kinda reckoned it'd be a two parter with the second over at Chris' wonderful 'Off My Shelves' channel. Great selecrtions so far. Cash is one of the few comics I've bought my wife and she loved it.
I'm not sure if it will appear on either list but Jeff Rougvie and Moritat's Gunning For Hits is a fantastic insight into the late 80s music scene from the business end. Well worth checking out.
I'd also recommend Ian Shirley's prose book 'Can Rock and Roll Save the World?' a history of comics and music. Really good read.
Making notes, thank you, and i hope you enjoy the slightly longer (!) Part 2, now playing 😁
Ah, my two favourite comic RUclipsrs 😊💜
(Don't let your heads get too big 😂)
A brilliant choice of topic as it's not something that I think has been covered much before! (And sadly for my wallet, I don't have most of these XD)
"No honourable mentions allowed" 😂
He still managed to sneak one in 🤣
I now regret sitting on The Fifth Beatle so long, as it's one of the oldest items in my wishlist :')
I was watching the time count down and wondering how you were going to fit the last 6 in 😂
Looking forward to part 2!
Haha thank you so much. And I hope you enjoy Part 2, which is out now. You'll see that I behaved quite admirably 😁
Not sure if Chris noticed how Angshuman almost casually slipped in ”honorable mentions” by suggesting to guess at the end what comics we viewers would’ve like to had included😅Such a smooth move.
I almost panicked as the time was running out not knowing this is two parter. Quite interesting angle for Top-list. My mind was completely blank. Well, maybe one comic that might have fitted the bill came to my mind.
You guys are very different and the outcome is great chemistry. Definitely deserves Part 2 - and more🤘🏻
Shhh! I was trying to keep it in for the record but still have it go by quickly.
As it turns out, we may not have gotten the opportunity.
Thanks so much for the kind words, and I hope you enjoy the next part as well!
And I'm also hoping that your list grows, both from recommendations as well as unlocks !
Ah yes! Been waiting on you two reuniting since forever ! Two of my favourite RUclipsrs in conversation after a long time ! So looking forward to watching it! ❤
Thank you! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did 😁!
A Silent Hell and Scott Pilgrim would have been in my choices, and the Johnny Cash book is currently sitting in my 'to read' pile!
Other books that jump to mind are:
Phonogram by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie
Hardcore Anxiety by Reid Chancellor
I Love This Part by Tillie Walden
Zebedee and The Valentines by Abs Bailey
Hopeless Savages by Jen Van Meter
Insert gif of me hurriedly making notes... I only know I Love This Part, although Savages sounds familiar - was Brian Lee O'Malley involved?
As always, thank you!
@@ftloc yes! It's been a very long time since I read it, but I think he wrote and drew a story in the complete collection. I'm going to have to get it off the shelf to give it a re-read!
Lolz, Welsh really is the Indian accent of uk, I could listen to you guys conversing for hours
Thank you! Another reason why Chris is so great for this episode in particular is the musicality of his voice!
Loving the new uploads, Angshuman! Great to see guest appearances. Wish you all the success!
@@mrbakarkhaniabsolutely thrilled to hear it! I've wanted to do these crossovers for years, but lacked the know how and confidence. I really have to credit viewers and commenters like yourself for encouraging me to attempt different things on the channel! ♥️
Likes the guest appearances but I want a comic hunt series and a new channel (ftloc vlog) with his wife that will be more integrated with search of comics in india or anywhere you live .
At the onset, my first thoughts is Jem and the Holograms and Love & Rockets are the two comics about music that come to mind. Jem and the Holograms shows music on the page well. Love & Rockets shows the culture around music well.
Jem and the Holograms! Talk about a blast from my ancient past! Thank you for reminding me of that!
And L&R spent a lot of time in my musings, but ultimately I went with 5 picks which had music as a more 'instrumental' element 😁
@@ftloc I could see justification for L&R to be on or off the list. I like the way it uses the culture but, like movie making, it isn't really about the music.
Great to see you two collaborating! Can't wait to find out what your top 3 is going to be.
I personally almost never read any music related biographies, so my top 5 is allmost all fictional.
1. Doomboy by Tony Sandoval
2. Into the pines by Erik Kriek
3. Love in Vain by Mezzo and Dupont
4. Crossroads by Paco Roca
5. Ballad for sophie by Filipe Melo and Juan Cavia
5b. Punk rock and trailer parks by Derf Backderf
5c. I Was a Punk Before You Were a Punk by Bert Henning
Thank you for the kind words and the great list! I hope you like Part 2, now up 😁
@@ftlocI really loved part 2. There also is one music comic that I've been trying to get my hands on for a decent price for quite a while. The Kiss kompendium. Not because I think it's any good but just because it's pure kitsch. And because I like comic rarities. 3D comics, very small or big comics, a comic about a surgeon that needs to be cut open page by page or the first (european) completely digital drawn comic. Just to name some examples. Is that something you're also interested in?
I do like oddities! But not necessarily because something is the first or oldest, more like things that are truly unique and unusual, even if they are not completely 'successful' 😁
I don't know anything about Kiss other than what I learned from the Edward Furlong starring Detroit Rock City! 🤣
Another project Kyle Baker worked on, Deep Cuts, is one of my favorite series of I think last year (maybe early this year, or spread between them). It is this really interesting exploration of music, history, and character. I got it in floppies and they were these really nice, glue binding thick issues (I used to know what this format is actually called), and had a bunch of music related extras in the back. Highly recommend
Ooh, thank you, that really piques my curiosity!
As for that format, do you perhaps mean squarebound floppies? Like the original issues of From Hell, The Escapist, and the Mignola Fafrd and Grey Mouser?
@@ftloc I do mean square bound. The trade came out in May, and the series was split over 23 and 24. Also, I misremembered, it is Kyle Higgins, not Baker, my b. Still a recommendation, especially for a music comic
Phonogram was the first series to come to mind for me. Agree with another commenter that Love and Rockets is a good shout as well!
Thank you for the recommendation!
And I thought long and hard about Love and Rockets but disqualified it for my own sake 🤣
@@ftloc 😧 Wowsers! I guess you could either way with that one 🤷
What an interesting video! I loved Angshuman comment about that Blacksad page: "you can hear that page. It's very loud." Anyway, the only music comic I could think of is a manga, Blue Giant by Shinichi Ishizuka. I could hear the saxophone in every page :)
Thank you, so glad you enjoyed it! Part 2 coming soon! And thank you for that recommendation!
I have a European comic album called FM. It's a collection of short stories that Argentinian writer Jorge Zentner and Spanish artist Ruben Pellejero did in the 1980s inside Spanish comic magazine Cimoc. Sadly it doesn't exist in English. Not all stories have music as a backdrop, but all are centered around a radio broadcast.
Sounds intriguing, what a shame about there being no English translation...but thanks so much for the spotlight!
Manga recommendation 1. Beck 2. Blue Giant
Bryan Lee O'Malley has stated that Beck was an inspiration for him while working on Scott Pilgrim. Whether that was the manga or anime I need to double check on, but he did make mention of it during a talk with John Kelly at Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) the other weekend.
How about comics that were released alongside an original music soundtrack? I’m actually working on a short audio/visual comic project with a friend, so very intrigued to see what else is out there!
I can think of two; The Rabbit/Barbarians by The Burning Hell & Rachael Smith, and Secret Path by Gord Downie & Jeff Lemire.
@@comicsvstheworld ooh amazing, thanks for the heads up!
I've seen a couple of comics that come bundled with CDs, but an outright soundtrack to read to? I don't recall any right now.
I appreciate all that can be listed! 😁
I suppose the most musically oriented comic that I’ve ever read has to be Phonogram.
As a side note it is a series that really made me appreciate Manic Street Preachers as a band.
Second mention of Phonogram in the last two hours! I guess I'll need to take a look! Thanks! 👍🏽
@ftloc there is a Book called Letters of Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien with illustrations by him you could make a Christmas Episode of it
Please review some dark a twisted comics for Halloween
Hip Hop Family Tree - Ed Piscor
Red Rocket 7 - Mike Allred
The Archies - Segura - Eisma
Hip Hop Family Tree and Red Rocket are great music comics.
I need to check out Red Rocket and ...The Archies? Is this from Archie comics or a 'bootleg'?
@ftloc The Archies is an Archie Publication 2018. It was a mini series about how the Riverdale gang start a band and tour. the comic series comes with a "suggested playlist" of music to listen to while reading the series.
@@hookedonjuneau6313 There was a musical issue of Deadpool that had a linked playlist trying to blur the forms.
The two Piranha press Prince comics and Bill Sienkiewicz ‘s Voodoo Child?
Alice Cooper and Neil Gaiman captured the album Last Temptation well, but most of the other Alice Cooper comics, and Kiss comics, do not truly capture the musicians characters.
I've seen extracts from Voodoo Child but never read it. Pirhana Press is something I need to look into.
1. Total Jazz 🎵🎶🎶 Blutch
That's a good one indeed...
Nine minutes in the video. I can't name a single pure music comic. 😮
OK, I have read Scott Pilgrim (b/w) and Blacksad. 👍
Pure is a tough word to live up to, isn't it? We went with integral or essential to...
The subject is definitely interesting. Unfortunately not many works are available in english so here´s my small contribution. Cheers
Ballad for Sophie (by Filipe Melo & Juan Cavia, Top Shelf Productions 2021)
Love in Vain: Robert Johnson - 1911-1938 (by Mezzo & Jean-Michel Dupont, Faber & Faber 2016)
O Diabo e Eu (The Devil and Me) (by Alcimar Frazão, Edições Polvo 2015) available IN PORTUGUESE
Leonard Cohen: On a wire (Drawn and Quarterly 2021)
Blue In Green (Image 2020)
Paul Is Dead, When The Beatles lost McCartney (Image 2020)
Fats Waller (Casterman 2017) IN FRENCH
Krent Ables Big Book Of Mischief (by Krent Able, Knockabout Comics 2012)
Total jazz (by Blutch, Fantagraphics 2018)
Bluesman: La maldición de Barry Brown (by Raúl Ariño, Nuevo Nueve Editores 2020) available in SPANISH & FRENCH
Avery's Blues (by Angux & Núria Tamarit, Dibbuks 2016) available in SPANISH & FRENCH
El Pequeño Libro Del Rock (by Hervé Bourhis, Norma Editorial 2021) available in SPANISH & FRENCH
Days Like This (by J. Torres & Scott Chantler, Oni Press 2003)
Original Hot Jazz, Max Zillion & Alto Ego (by Hunt Emerson, Knockabout 1996)
Billie Holiday (by Carlos Sampayo & José Muñoz, NBM Publishing Company, 2017)
Thanks for that great list. I hope you tune in to Part 2 😊
I'm only familiar with three of the books you've listed, now to do homework on the rest! 😁
@@ftloc For sure. You may want to check these also...
Golden Boy - Beethoven's Youth (2022/Fantagraphics)
All Tomorrow's Parties - The Velvet Underground Story (by Koren Shadmi, Humanoids 2023). Cheers...