Comics about jazz

[gvopedz]

Nate Chinen  talks with Dave Chisholm who writes graphic novels about jazz musicians:

https://slate.com/podcasts/working/2023/09/dave-chisholm-on-the-challenges-of-writing-a-graphic-novel-about-miles-davis

 

[Teasing the Korean]

One of my fun projects is taking the classic "The Day Bill Told Off His Boss" CIE ad that ran in DC and Marvel comics in the early 1970s and creating my own dialog bubbles.  Some of the ones I've done have jazz content.  I would post some here if it wasn't so difficult to post images.  

Here is the original:

http://www.adtothebone.com/the-day-bill-told-off-his-boss/

[Dan Gould]

24 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

One of my fun projects is taking the classic "The Day Bill Told Off His Boss" CIE ad that ran in DC and Marvel comics in the early 1970s and creating my own dialog bubbles.  Some of the ones I've done have jazz content.  I would post some here if it wasn't so difficult to post images.  

 

How hard is it to go here and upload whatever you want then copy/paste your (free) links into your O-post?

https://imgbb.com/

 

[Brad]

Z2 Comics has made two graphic novels, Charlie Parker - Chasin’ the Bird, which I think was made with The Parker Estate and UMG; and Enter the Blue, about Blue Note, which was made with BN. 

[romualdo]

8 hours ago, Brad said:

Z2 Comics has made two graphic novels, Charlie Parker - Chasin’ the Bird, which I think was made with The Parker Estate and UMG; and Enter the Blue, about Blue Note, which was made with BN. 

another outstanding graphic novel is the Monk effort by Youssef Daoudi

https://www.amazon.com/Monk-Thelonious-Pannonica-Friendship-Revolution/dp/1626724342/ref=sr_1_2?crid=340X52AK132R5&keywords=thelonious+monk&qid=1695684713&s=books&sprefix=thelonious+mon%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C458&sr=1-2

There's an Albert Ayler graphic novel in the works being undertaken by Dean Westerfield - he's also a fan of Tapscott/Arkestra (see link)

https://angelcityjazz.com/explorations/westerfield/

[unitstructures]

Harvey Pekar has some comics where he talks to Sun Ra on a Greyhound bus. And even more comics about collecting jazz records.

[Teasing the Korean]

Further up in the thread, I shared the classic 1970s CIE ad that appeared in Marvel and DC Comics.  This is the comic where Bill tells off Mr. Bemis and informs him that he is getting a real job.

Here is a version with my own dialog bubbles, featuring jazz content! 

https://ibb.co/711WGxz

[JSngry]

Bill pawned somebody's alto?

Bill is a junkie, right? 

[HutchFan]

Funny stuff. 

[Teasing the Korean]

16 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Bill pawned somebody's alto?

Bill is a junkie, right? 

Bill pawned Mr. Bemis's alto.  Bill could be a junkie, or he could just be underpaid and making a statement.  Literature allows for multiple interpretations.

[JSngry]

But Bill is a junkie.

Interpretations are infinite, but facts is facts.