The music/comics connection
You may enjoy this piece in the LA Times covering musicians who make comics, including Zak Sally (above) Archer Prewitt, and Gerard Way. There are a few obvious names missing, like James Kochalka, and a few more obscure ones, like Carson van Osten, who quit Todd Rundgren’s band, The Nazz, in 1969 for a busy career writing Donald Duck comics. How did that one happen, anyway?
08/17/09 at 9:44 am
Eisner winner Nate Powell of Swallow Me Whole, just returned from a 2 week tour with his band…
08/17/09 at 11:10 am
How could they forget Coheed & Cambria? Their albums are practically comic books set to music, and they did a tie-in comic called The Amory Wars for Image.
08/17/09 at 1:02 pm
Brian Chippendale beats them drums.
08/17/09 at 1:37 pm
Tori Amos?
08/17/09 at 2:29 pm
Not a long enough, detailed enough article. Only scratched the surface of the comics/music connection.
08/17/09 at 7:08 pm
Kevin Dixon has been creating comics non-stop for decades, and headlining Chapel Hill bands for almost as long.
08/17/09 at 7:10 pm
Joe Matt showed me his jam sketchbooks when I was last in LA and they’re filled with comics jams he did with musician Aimee Mann. She can draw pretty well, too.
08/18/09 at 2:56 pm
Also of note: Steve Niles was in the post-hardcore band, Grey Matter.