3:AM Magazine

1968 and All That
Saturday, 10 May 2008, 10am - 10pm
Conway Hall
Red Lion Square
London WC1

Speakers include Jamie Reid on the occupation of Croydon College.

Ben Myers‘ Captains Of Industry record label announces its move into publishing with the first title on Captains Of Industry Books, Brutalism 1: Nowhere Fast.

Hotly-tipped smoggy-lit star and Apples author Richard Milward will be reading at the London Word Festival, which takes place between 20 February and 14 March and features some of our favourite writers reading in some of our favourite venues. He is currently listening to:

1. ‘Craigness,’ - The Fall
2. ‘Strawberries,’ - Asobi Seksu
3. ‘Four Organs,’ - Steve Reich
4. ‘New Monkey,’ - Elliott Smith
5. ‘Rene,’ - The Small Faces

(clip: Spanish promo for Apples)

LEE ROURKE ON BOREDOM

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3:AM’s Lee Rourke, author of Everyday (out now), on boredom and more. Rourke is also interviewed about Everyday.

Paul Gravett on From Superman to the Rabbi’s Cat, an exhibition showing at the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme: “New York was home to the largest Jewish community in the world, but anti-semitism was rife and the field of newspaper strips, as well as advertising and illustration, tended not to hire Jews. At the lowest end of the creative industries, one new medium that opened up to them was the low-cost, lowbrow comic book, even if the publishers, many from the rag trade, brought with them the attitude that their artist employees were no more than piece-meal cutters churning out disposable product. Over the years, Jews became intimately involved in both the business and the contents of these ten-cent, four-colour novelties. DC and Marvel, today’s biggest comic book publishers, are just two of the companies founded during this period by Jewish entrepreneurs. Ever since, from magazines like MAD and the Sixties comix, underground counterculture comics for adults only, to today’s burgeoning field of graphic novels, or lengthy comics in book form, Jewish cartoonists, editors and publishers have played a key part. They have brought their own distinct perspectives to American comics and reflected more or less overtly their experiences of immigration and assimilation. After all, as the lifelong comics pioneer Will Eisner once put it, “A little Yiddishkeit never hurt.” + The Crumb Museum, the art of R. Crumb [Daily Cross Hatch] + The A.V. Club interview Daniel Clowes: The greatest moment of my life was, somebody sent me a cable-access show from Chicago that had Joey Ramone on it showing that video. And he was talking about, like, [imitates Queens accent] “This guy Dan Clowes postponed his wedding for us. He’s a great guy.” + Comics Reporter talk to Fantagraphics’ Eric Reynolds. On forthcoming releases: “There’s also Daniel Clowes‘ Ghost World Special Edition, a la the recent Palestine treatment. It’ll include the screenplay and a few dozen new pages of other stuff from the Clowes vaults, possibly including a fax from me that I sent him in 1996 or so with a list of quotes from comic book retailers who told us that Ghost World would never sell. Speaking of which, we just went into a 15th soft cover printing.” + PRINT Magazine interview Joe Sacco: “I still want to work as a cartoonist, but there are only so many years I have left on me as far as reporting goes. Traveling and living rough for a short time isn’t such a problem. The problem is the years of work drawing a book. Three or four major projects equals about two decades, and how many useful decades do I have? I’d like to work on shorter journalism pieces. Beyond that, I’d like to experiment with comics essays and fiction. I wish I had four or five creative lives to live to explore all the possibilities. I’d be a writer in another life.” [Flog!]