As of this morning, uploaded 16 interviews to Disquiet.com, including what appears to be now the earliest interview on the site, one with Randy Greif, speaking in 1992 on the occasion of his reworkings of Alice in Wonderland (“The …
A solid maxim:
Love the machine, hate the factory.
Apparently that’s the motto of the magazine SteamPunk, according to Cory Doctorow, who takes it as the title for his column in volume 17 of the magazine Make (make-digital.com), out on …
Subscribers to the Disquiet.com email newsletter next month will have a chance to win a copy of the two-CD set Au Clair de la Lune, courtesy of the label Infrequency. The album collects nine …
If there’s an enticing remoteness to the work on EARLabs 3, a new album-length collaboration between Jos Smolders, Christopher McFall, and Sasha Neudeck, perhaps credit goes to their working conditions. Living as the three do in entirely different cities and …
I was an editor at Pulse!, the music magazine, from 1989 through 1996 (and at its sister publication, Classical Pulse!). In 1992, I instituted the regular appearance of comics in the magazine, first with a series by Adrian Tomine, then with one by Justin Green, and ultimately (in 1993) with a back-page comic, known as the “Flipside,” which featured a different artist every month. When in 1996 I left Pulse! I continued, as a contributing editor at the magazine, to oversee the comics. Other folks took responsibility for working with Green over the years, and other comics were introduced on occasion; I continued to edit the “Flipside.”
This list presents an index of the comics that appeared in Pulse! between Tomine’s debut, in February 1992, and the magazine’s closure, after 19 years of continuous publication, in December 2002. I put these lists together hastily following the announcement, on November 7, 2002, of the cancellation of the magazine, so there may be a fact or two wrong. And I have yet to complete the list of, among other things, the comics Green contributed to the magazine, but I’ll have that done in the future.
This list was originally produced when I had a “comics blog,” ReadComicsInPublic.net, which I ran from September 2002 through October 2003. I may also, down the road, detail the subjects of the monthly strips, now that the list is housed on this website, Disquiet.com.
Many of the strips would be of interest to readers of Disquiet, including the Jon Lewis and Jason Lutes’s December 1993 collaborative work, which was about a kind of nightmare rave scenario; Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang’s October 1994 collaboration, which was an homage to John Cage; Tom Hart’s March 1996 piece, which took Brian Eno, loosely, as its subject; and others. Matt Madden’s August 1995 piece is the focus of the essay “Home Decorating in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” one of the earliest long-form writings on this website, dating from 1996. And one of the Dylan Horrocks pieces listed here uses Arvo Pärt as a touchstone for an emotional period in the cartoonist’s life — just to touch on a some of the works below. Also, I wrote a few of the Justin Green comics listed here, including one on Philip Glass, and one about the ill-fated 8-track cassette tape.
Technology, we’re told, if it is sufficiently advanced, becomes like a kind of magic. To listen to the piece “That’s OK,” off the recent self-titled album by Tam, is to learn that if the …
Just a quick update on the introduction of streaming audio to Disquiet.com. Apparently streams are much more popular than I’d even imagined.
In the short time, less than six days, since a new streaming audio service — “Listen?” — …