[comix] NEW MODERN TALES LONGPLAY
: ROCK AND ROLL
June 16, 2003-- The brash harmonics and simple lyrics of rock and roll burrow down into your deepest subconscious... they inspire millions, and some of them are cartoonists. The new edition of
Modern Tales Longplay focuses on the music, with a three-week 'Rock and Roll Interlude.'
Modern Tales is the leading commercial webcomics publisher, and
Longplay is a monthly feature on the site devoted to stand-alone, 'long form' webcomics.
Comics featured this edition:
Meet Me in Saint Louie (premieres today)
Cartoonist Tim Fish makes his mark with this fast, funny, and engaging 80-page odyssey of a recent college grad coping with the ins and outs of St. Louis and his own identity crisis. With blues lyrics by Jay Laird, this contemporary saga explores the ambitions
of youth, including the rivalry of two all-women rock bands. Fish does the online daily
Young Bottoms in Love and his self-published series
The Cavalcade of Boys.
Rock Soldiers (premieres June 23)
Ignatz nominated NYC cartoonist Mike Dawson is the publisher of the riotously funny comic book
Gabagool! and also the melancholic and moody book
Cabaret. In
Rock Soldiers, a mission to retrieve a stolen guitar demands the collective efforts of a gang of former high school chums.
My Music Comic (premieres June 30)
Tatiana Gill (
Whoa, Mexico) returns to Longplay with a fascinating rock tune autobiography, showing how the bands she listens to become an important part of each stage in her life.
Christian Rock (premieres June 30)
Artist/writer Elijah Brubaker has spent a good portion of his life hitching and living homeless up and down the west coast. He currently works at a literary arts center in Seattle. his work can be seen in upcoming issues of
Raven Rhronicles,
Bandoppler, the
True Porn anthology as well as his various self-published efforts. Elijah is currently co-editing
Moxie, an anthology of the Finecomix art collective of which he is a member. In
Christian Rock, Brubaker chronicles his misadventures hanging out with a Christian Rock musician
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