In Songs Illustrated, we enlist our favorite comic book artists and cartoonists to translate songs into sequential art.
Black metal pioneers Deafheaven has spent half a decade exploring the contrast between euphoric washes of ethereal noise and relentless tidal waves of barbed metal glory. Blurs of serrated guitar, heart attack percussion and George Clarke’s sandpaper rasp have pushed the group into a new space that straddles traditional Scandinavian chaos with something much less definable. That hybrid intensity reached a new apex with 2015’s “New Bermuda,” an album that seamlessly gallops along assaulting guitar lines and tear-jerk adagio piano outros with equal conviction. And don’t get us started on the live shows.
In our latest Songs Illustrated, writer and illustratorBecky Cloonan channels eight-and-a-half-minute album closer, “Gifts for the Earth,” into a visual elegy of haunting beauty with an insidious core—which couldn’t be more appropriate. Cloonan currently co-writes the eerie underside of Batman’s stomping grounds in Gotham Academy as well as the cosmic horror slow burn of Southern Cross. Here, she harkens back to the brutal, lonely lament of works like her self-published one-shots Wolves, Demeter and The Mire as well as her stint on writer Brian Wood’s viking epic, Northlanders.
Deafheaven is currently on tour and Ms. Cloonan is currently prepping her new ongoing Punisher run at Marvel.
Hell yeah, Dark Phoenix! Regular and variant prints for @mondotees’s Snikt Bamf Thwip: A Celebration of Marvel Comics gallery show! The opening is on December 11th, so if you’re in/around Austin be sure to check it out!
Other artists set to premiere pieces at the show include: Florian Bertmer; Boneface; Glen Brogan; Sam Wolfe Connelly; Craig Drake; Francesco Francavilla; Gianmarco Magnani; Mike Mitchell; Phantom City Creative; Chris Skinner; Matt Taylor; Emily Tetri; We Buy Your Kids; Tom Whalen; and Matthew Woodson.
None outlive the night when the Norns have spoken.
My piece for the @mondotees Originals show! So many amazing artists and good friends in this one, I’m honored to be a part of it. Opening is this Friday the 13th at the Mondo gallery in Austin TX! 7pm! Be there! 😘
WOLF’S BLOOD!! New shirt by me and @roguescreenprint, available now for pre-order for the next week!! I am sooo stoked on how these came out!! Roguescreenprint.bigcartel.com
