You ever have one of those days when you just wanna scream? Tyroc and Songbird have those all the time. A hypersonic scream seems like such a bizarre superpower that it’s actually rather amazing how many comic book characters possess it. In addition to the subjects of the dazzling panel above — commissioned from the [...]
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Comic Art Friday: Somebody scream!
January 20, 2012Comic Art Friday: Heavenly creatures
January 13, 2012We’re not fully two weeks into 2012, and already it’s been an exciting art year at the new Casa de Swan. Here’s the first of several reasons why. I frequently discuss with other comic art collectors our approaches to our theme commissions. Many of my fellow hobbyists present elaborately detailed scenarios to the artists they [...]
Comic Art Friday: The best of 2011
December 30, 20112011 was another light year on the commission front, due to economic circumstances with which I’m certain many of you could identify. It was, however, what the late film star Spencer Tracy might have termed a Katharine Hepburn kind of year — there wasn’t a lot of meat on its bones, but what there was, [...]
Comic Art Friday: Nice people rock!
December 23, 2011As most of you are aware, I celebrated yet another anniversary of my birth on Monday of this week. (That’s December 19, for the calendar-impaired.) That very day, I arrived home from a fun time touring the holiday sights of downtown San Francisco with The Daughter only to discover this beauty of a birthday gift [...]
You can still rock in America, even if you need a rocking chair
October 6, 2011Way back in America’s bicentennial year (1976, for those of you who are either too young to recall or lousy at math), Jethro Tull recorded a concept album entitled Too Old to Rock and Roll; Too Young to Die. The record’s theme reinforced the notion that rock music is a young person’s game. (Remember The [...]
This one’s for the boobies
October 3, 2011It hardly seems as though it’s been a year, but it’s October again. You know what that means: It’s National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Those of you who’ve visited here and at our previous location know that I’m not big on causes, but I champion this one for a powerful personal reason: KJ, my wife [...]
36 Days of Adrenaline: Day 11 — “Life in the Fast Lane”
March 7, 2011Artist: The Eagles Why this song is an adrenaline rush: If there was ever any doubt that Joe Walsh is one of the most spectacularly gifted guitarists in the history of rock, the opening riff of “Life in the Fast Lane” should dispel said doubt. And if there was ever any doubt that Walsh playing [...]
36 Days of Adrenaline: Day 10 — “Da Butt”
February 22, 2011Artist: E.U. Why this song is an adrenaline rush: There are songs that make you want to dance, and there are songs that absolutely compel you to dance. This is one of the latter. Straight from the opening drum riff and horn blast, “Da Butt” lays down a groove that forbids you to sit still. [...]
36 Days of Adrenaline: Day 9 — “China Grove”
February 10, 2011Artist: The Doobie Brothers Why this song is an adrenaline rush: Are you kidding? Have you not heard those opening guitar chords? Lyric line that’s fun to belt at maximum volume: But every day there’s a new thing comin’ The ways of an Oriental view The sheriff and his buddies with their samurai swords You [...]
36 Days of Adrenaline: Day 8 — “The Boys of Summer”
February 8, 2011Artist: Don Henley Why this song is an adrenaline rush: Henley is one of rock’s best songwriters, as well as one of its most underappreciated vocalists. He’s in his element in both respects on this song, his most effective single outside of his work with The Eagles. (Coming up on Day 11, in case you [...]
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