The B&S comic book incident
I’m currently in the midst of what could be called a mild obsession with Belle & Sebastian at the moment, and no sooner had I finished Paul Whitelaw’s excellent Belle’s biography Just A Modern Rock Story, than I learn that Image Comics have released Put The Book Back On The Shelf: A Belle & Sebastian Anthology which is essentially a collection of stories by independent comic artists, inspired by B&S songs.
Kako’s interpretation of Dog On Wheels. A little bit too literal, but it looks totally hot.
It’s more of a graphic novel than a comic book, the styles of the artists featured varies from brilliant to just plain embarrassing — Chalet Lines deals with some heavy subject matter, and yet the artist merely offers some two-colour surrealist nudes and underground rail carriages. Not good enough.
As soon as I heard about the book, I pre-ordered it through (apparently) everybody’s favourite comics store Alternate Worlds, and this weekend had the pleasure of picking it up. Upon opening said book, I was greeted by a rather hastily scrawled missive tucked between it’s pages, which I will present here:
“D, I know your every move, mu ha hA HA HA HA HA! ♥ Robert”
I admit, I may have been wearing my current adoration of the Belles prominently on my sleeve of late, but am I really that predictable? Perhaps, if Robert would care to leave a comment, he could shed some light on his side of this egocentric (and possibly uninteresting) anecdote.
Comments
Let’s just say that he (robert) is “IN” with the crew at Alternate Worlds…Rodney is his fave.
Posted by: rich | February 27, 2006 07:09 PM
well that just evaporates all the ‘mystique’ that may have been lingering….
Posted by: robert | February 27, 2006 11:21 PM