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'One way of describing Phonogram would be that it fits into a middle ground. It’s a comic that uses much of the pulp idiom but is trying to engage with more philosophical topics. File next to things like, say, The Sandman, The Invisibles or Transmetropolitan.
'“Middlebrow” would be the term some would use, but I’d reject that dichotomy as hard as I’d reject anything, and I consider people who view the world in that way as my active aesthetic opponents. I think of Phonogram as “anti-brow”. I hate the polar dichotomy in all art, and Phonogram’s merging of pulpy tropes and literary nonsense was my attempt to try to mirror pop music itself.' -- Kieron Gillen
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'There’s no scientific underpinning for why music affects us profoundly as it does. There are a few ideas about how it works, sure – but no “why”. Something like music, which does everything from changing your day to changing your life for no reason, may as well be magic. It’s certainly the closest thing in real life to it.' -- Kieron Gillen
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"A straight fantasy approach suggests that even the idea of music as a transmutatory force is fantastical, as ludicrous as believing fairies are waiting at the bottom of your garden. The non-fiction approach leaves it dry and historical, a piece of pure explanation with none of the raw poetry and inspiration that narrative allows, and is all too important in pop-music. And pure autobiography reduces everything to a grey sludge, the hammer of honesty flattening everything to a vague nihilistic description of 'just what happened,' but misses out what actually happened. Phonogram is about the tension between these three poles, which is the only way I could express the entirety of how pop music works." -- Kieron Gillen
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Phonogram: Rue Britannia #3 - "Faster"
Oct. 26th, 2015 05:42 pmlaughing_tree
"A key element of the traditional superhero comic -- the thing that actually divorces it from science fiction -- is that there are these entities of incredible power, but despite all this it doesn't change the world in the slightest. Hence the persistence of the thrill of looking at your neighborhood fence and imagining a geeky teen gifted with arachnid powers propelling him over it at enormous velocity or the local school being razed beneath the fists of a towering green man. It contextualizes these characters into your everyday life. Equally, like the Transformers, through secret-identities there's this insertion of God-like figures into the human world. Superhero comic' closest genre neighbor is the modern fantasy, despite its science fiction or crime tropes." -- Kieron Gillen on urban fantasy
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"Most traditional fantasy gives you another world to run and hide in. A modern fantasy allows you to reclaim yours. Reality remixed, expanded, made precious, made you. As Le Parkour is to the physical geography of a city, so is a modern fantasy to its spiritual geography. Redefining it in terms to please you rather than chain you. That's a key part of PHONOGRAM ideology." -- Kieron Gillen
I posted pages from the first issue some time back. I meant to post from the rest of the series sooner but got sidetracked by other stuff. Well, here we go.
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laughing_tree
"'Music is Magic' means nothing by itself. It's a metaphor that has been probed by writers and musicians for as long as people have realized that a sequence of noises have the power to change people's emotions in fundamental ways, for no discernible reasons - and that's the closest thing to the genuine supernatural that we can find in the real world. It's a good metaphor.
"Problem is, I don't really mean it as a metaphor. I just mean it. If there's a God, it's in pop music, which means for me the stakes are higher than for the dilettantes." -- Kieron Gillen
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Phonogram - The Immaterial Girl #1
Aug. 17th, 2015 04:34 pmhistory79
"Nearly a decade ago, Emily Aster sold half her personality for the power to rule a coven of phonomancers. I’m sure nothing could go horribly, monstrously wrong now. In a world where Music is Magic, a song can save or ruin your life. In THE IMMATERIAL GIRL, we discover what a video can do."
- Image Comics press release
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Phonogram - The Singles Club #4
Mar. 8th, 2010 11:11 pmkingrockwell
Spending the evening in the DJ's booth tonight, with Seth Bingo and the Silent Girl.
( Konichiwa Bitches )
Phonogram - The Singles Club #3
Mar. 7th, 2010 09:00 pmkingrockwell
If you've read Rue Britannia, tonight's cast may be more familiar to you.
Our host for the evening is Emily Aster, who "snipped away the bits [of herself] she didn't like and traded them for power."
( We Share Our Mother's Health )
Phonogram - The Singles Club #2
Mar. 6th, 2010 06:24 pmkingrockwell
Memories are funny things. You'll never know what'll trigger them until it's too late.
Music is no exception. I'm sure many of us have cursed songs, I can tell you to this day what I was listening to when I got the news that my little brother died. No matter what kind of mood they intended to inspire, any time they come the memory'll crawl down your stomach and start kicking you from the inside.
But how much worse would it be for a phonomancer, when the emotional becomes the literal?
This is Marc's story.
( Wine and Bed and More and Again )
Phonogram - The Singles Club #1
Mar. 5th, 2010 06:39 pmkingrockwell
*No Magic
Meant to do this yesterday, but my internet's been giving me trouble.
The second series of Phonogram ended last month, and in that time I've absolutely fallen in love with it, so I figured I'd share. I'll try to showcase an issue each day, as the internet'll allow me.
So let's take it from the beginning.
( Pull Shapes )
kingrockwellSo, I started a Twitter recently to hash out my feelings on my comics each week, and one of the creators I ended up following is Kieron Gillen, who you may know for taking over the reigns from JMS on Thor, or writing the absolutely delightful and unfortunately to-be-cancelled S.W.O.R.D. Anyway, he'd been talking about his Image mini-series Phonogram: The Singles Club, which ended this week, so I decided to give issue 7 a shot.
I'm sharing with you today the last story, because they warmed my Talking Heads-loving heart.
( Two pages and a back cover under the cut. )
Also, while we're talking about music, I just wanted to share a final reminder to anyone hoping to participate in the Scans_Daily Boom De Yada Project, you have until midnight EST on Sunday to record your submissions! I actually have almost all the verse-lines I need, but there were still a few people who wanted to contribute that I haven't heard back from yet!
I do have a dire shortage of laaaand-liiiieefeelds recorded though, so if anyone can spare a few minutes and help me with those, I'd really appreciate it.
So if you're interested and want to chip in, go check this post to see how you can help!
And remember, midnight tomorrow!
I'm sharing with you today the last story, because they warmed my Talking Heads-loving heart.
( Two pages and a back cover under the cut. )
Also, while we're talking about music, I just wanted to share a final reminder to anyone hoping to participate in the Scans_Daily Boom De Yada Project, you have until midnight EST on Sunday to record your submissions! I actually have almost all the verse-lines I need, but there were still a few people who wanted to contribute that I haven't heard back from yet!
I do have a dire shortage of laaaand-liiiieefeelds recorded though, so if anyone can spare a few minutes and help me with those, I'd really appreciate it.
So if you're interested and want to chip in, go check this post to see how you can help!
And remember, midnight tomorrow!
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dorksidefiker.insanejournal.comOne page from Phonogram #6, by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKekvie that I felt HAD to be shared. I have FINALLY gotten my gubbey hands on all six issues of this story, and this needs sharing because in a work that is FILLED with awesomeness, this is one of the most beautiful pages that I could ever show that wouldn't give things away.
Phonogram Intro- What is a Phonomancer?
Mar. 18th, 2009 04:34 pmwoogledesigns.insanejournal.comThis is a bit of a catch up on the first volume of the series, because Volksjager posted some of the latest. This kind of explains the world or Phonogram and gives you a hint of why you might want to buy the original collection (further hint: because it is ace).
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Mar. 18th, 2009 10:47 amvolksjager.insanejournal.com
So what is the mysterious force that make you risk all and pick up a new book instead of your old fav.s from the shelf ? Last Wensday I felt gravitys pull for this book "Pull Shapes"
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