Jun 01 2007
Tonight: Alternative Champs at The Garage
Like it says, Charlotte’s (and kinda Wintson’s I guess, since ex-Husbians Rick Randall is based in Winston) Alternative Champs are in town tonight playing at The Garage. The Champs also feature my former band-mate, ex-Come on Thunderchild vocalist/guitarist/keys player John Morris… and of course “Big Mike” of Jolene and The Hardsoul Poets as well. Here’s the blurb on them from the Garage newsletter:
Part performance art, stand up comedy, satirical theatre, and gigantic stadium rock band, The Alt Champs are like a musical Monty Python emphasizing the bizarre and hilarious while thoroughly rocking you along the way. Although they’re spawned from such critically acclaimed, regional favorites as Jolene, Rebar, and The Husbians, these guys are as unique to their past endeavors as they are to the rest of the music world.
Also in the lineup for the evening are The Westside Daredevils, Andy Freakin’ Mabe, and The Saving Graces–a band fronted by Michael Slawter of the fabulous local music history site www.ncmusichistory.com.
Jun 01 2007
SSalefish Featured in Llocal PPress
Via the new issue of Winston-Salem Monthly (who may be sending something else to my home shortly–a cease and desist order for scanning and posting this):
Here’s the text of the article:
Bret Parks, a Walnut Cove native, says it was a childhood dream come true to open Ssalefish Comics & Toys in January 2006. ln fact, Parks, who received a master’s degree in English from UNC Greensboro, even wrote his thesis on comic books as literature. ”Comics were always a part of my life, so I just wanted to do work that would argue for the medium to be taken more seriously,” he explains. After graduation, Parks moved to
South Korea , where he taught English until his dream of opening a comic-book store brought him back to the States and, soon,Winston-Salem .Ssalefish, located in the Silas Creek Crossing shopping Center, also carries such collectibles as vintage toys and comic books from the early 1930s. “In the age of eBay, anybody can find oddball things online, but the store is a place where you can see it before you,” Parks says. “Every day a customer says to me, ‘I’ve never that before.’ “
Congrats to the recently married Brett and Juliette! I gave them the king of all cheapskate cartoonist wedding presents: an original page from Midnight Sun–like I haven’t got a bunch of those floating around here…
May 29 2007
Marvel Indie Anthology
Apparently there’s a cool-looking new Marvel indie creator-centered anthology in the works–kind of an official Coober Skeeber by the looks of it. So far you can see some amazing looking Dr. Strange pages by Richmond, VA.’s Dash Shaw here. James Kochalka has confirmed via the Comics Journal message board that he’s done some sort of Hulk-related thing for the book as well. Other than that Aubrey Sitterson is editing the series, that’s about all that’s known about it at this time… other than that regrettably, an invitation to finally let loose upon the public my long awaited story The Triumphant Return of Razorback, was apparently lost in the mail ;-)
May 25 2007
Comics Lolcat
Over at the SLG News Blog, they’re calling for comics-related lolcats. Seein’ as how it’s 5:30 on Friday evening–aka quittin’ time–I drummed one up. Submissions so far seem to be following the general meme of cats asking to have their work published, so I’ve followed suit.
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