Peck spun his best finds on his popular WBRU radio show, “Dr.

When financing from rock publications got thin, Peck practiced the art of rock ‘n’ roll arbitrage: buying records at flea markets and “backwater Woolworths” and trading them at statewide record collectors’ conventions that he organized himself. Peck’s experience as a critic left him with an encyclopedic knowledge of doo-wop and early R&B. – All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight. Words to live and listen by: « Forget all that image stuff and check what’s in the grooves » Wham – Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go New Edition – Cool It Now Hank Williams Jr.

Les Daniels and The Mad Peck Studios’ 1971 Comix was a pretty fair early crack at recounting the history of the comic book up to the peak of the Undergrounds. This brings us to the storied career of Providence, Rhode Island’s finest son, John Peck (b. The main point of interest, in this case, is the Letterists’ pioneering of the rousingly subversive artistic technique of détournement, which involves “ taking preexisting images and mixing them together to highlight the underlying ideology of the original image.” » I’ll spare you a dry discourse about schools of thought, art and politics and their numerous and acrimonious (perhaps not so dry after all!) schisms. As we all surely know, The Letterist International was « a Paris-based collective of radical artists and cultural theorists between 19.

Well, after our brush with Surrealism, let’s hazard a brief detour amidst the Letterists. It embraces an author’s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. » - Guy Debord The meaning of words participates in the improvement.

I hope more details are pending, and I assume perhaps his editors at Abrams or Chronicle will chime in.« Ideas improve. He was also something of an official historian for Marvel and DC. I really know nothing more about him than what's on Wikipedia. These are the conversations we should continue to have.Īlso, thanks to James, we're proud to 'publish' this fine work by CCS student and archivist Cole Closser: A comic strip essay on Charles Forbell's Naughty Pete (the whole run of which can be found in Pete Maresca's Forgotten Fantasy).Īnd finally, I was saddened to learn of the death of comics historian Les Daniels, whose 1971 book, Comix: A History of the Comic Book in America, was one of those library staples that indoctrinated many of us. Jack Kirby: Legal Rights and Ethical Might”. Thanks to CCS and James Sturm we bring you Oliver Goodenough and Stephen Bissette in conversation on: “ Marvel vs. Yesterday brought Frank's latest scene report, this one guested by Kevin Czap of Cleveland.

Comix by Les Daniels