Straight Illustration Job
The illustrated Bible stories you used to go through in RE were bland and tepid, with (out of necessity) much of the content excised. Crumb’s version leaves nothing out, and his depictions of the human form are so realistic that you can practically smell his characters. Crumb’s Genesis gives you an aura of what it would be like to live in biblical times. The stench of cattle, of old clothes in desert heat, the screams of slaughtered animals, the hot blood of childbirth, the sweat, the hair.
Max Dunbar reviews Robert Crumb‘s Book of Genesis.
Youth of yesterday
Hardcore gigs took play in church halls and community halls. And crucially, perhaps for the first time in the modern history of British rock music, it took place away from the major cities and instead its strongholds were in places like Durham, Guisborough, Wigan, Exeter and Bradford – towns battered by Thatcherism which had little else on offer to its young. There was no security, no door policy, no soundman, no bar. Yet as Glasper conveys here through his meticulously and exhaustively compiled interviews, out of this lack of restriction, a general disregard for ability and a sobriety amongst many of its exponents that was rare for a youth movement, hardcore became a hive of energy and ideas: fanzines were written and produced, friendships formed, record and distribution companies started. Everything was self-moderated. Self-policed. Possible.
Ben Myers cocks an ear to Ian Glasper‘s Trapped In A Scene.
3:AM Asia: Red Leaves
Over at 3:AM Asia, you’ll find this… 3:AM: Please tell us about Red Leaves / 紅葉. Kirk Marshall: Red Leaves / 紅葉 proceeds as a creative channel through which I might facilitate a dialogue about the virtues of experimental or unconventional writing – prose and poetry which consciously and vocally circumnavigates the pro forma of […]
Red Leaves: Kirk Marshall
What I realised is that the most effective scheme to attract a broader readership was to appeal to overseas markets or models which are successful: people who read what I write tend to either be inhibited less by the unadventurous corporatisation of their immediate publishing circles, or be living overseas. If Australia and Japan both oppose transgressive writing, then let’s at least double my audience by tailoring a journal to the fringe communities of both societies to enhance the magazine’s capacity for success! This is where the bi-lingual focus became imperative to my concept for the journal…
An interview with Kirk Marshall by David Hoenigman.