R. Crumb Trades Art For Art

"Rare 78 spins into trade with Jerry's Records for drawing by R. Crumb"
 
  "After an exchange of emails, the Webers and Mr. Crumb agreed to a trade: Upon receiving the Bogus Ben Covington 78, Mr. Crumb, who is acutely aware of the value of his art, would send a pen-and-ink drawing of "Juice Jar Jerry" and "Whistlin' Willie" to the states suitable for reproduction on T-shirts and posters."
. . .

  " The A-side of Covington's 1928 record was 'Adam and Eve and the Garden.' The

B-side had the even more evocative title 'I Heard the Voice of the Pork Chop.' "
. . .
  "...Bogus Ben Covington...was believed to have been born in Alabama, but was most associated with the blues tradition of eastern Mississippi and Chicago. He worked the minstrel circuit and came by the nickname 'Bogus Ben' by pretending to be blind while busking throughout the South. He recorded a few songs for Paramount and a few unissued cuts for Vocalion, Robert Johnson's label before disappearing like smoke into the obscurity of rural Pennsylvania where he is believed to have died in 1935."
. . .
Tony Norman: tnorman@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1631; Twitter: @TonyNormanPG
First Published February 27, 2013 12:00 am
  . . .
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/ae/art-architecture/rare-lp-spins-into-trade-for-drawing-by-noted-artist-677032/

"Jerry's Records, R. Crumb, And One Rare 78"

  "If you're curious, these are both sides of the record in question and whatever discs were used as sources here (http://communityvoices.post-gazette.com/arts-entertainment-living/get-rhythm/item/35949-jerry-s-records-r-crumb-and-one-rare-78), the sound is likewise surprisingly good. Musically, both tunes hold up nicely 85 years later."

. . .

Wednesday, 27 February 2013 06:06 AM Written by Rich Kienzle

Impression

 hands ink-dyed thick black paste with smooth texture perfumed of inspiration


white paper

substantial

roughly textured

catches fingertips


position rectangular sheet on heavy steel table

spin wheel

glide roller

machined gears mesh with something inside

M. Hill

The Inner Ear

"Dreams or illusions, call them what you will,

 They lift us from the commonplace of life

 To better things."

-Longfellow

Modernman

M. Hill 

Originally published in 

The White Buffalo Gazette

 by Maximum Traffic

Butler, Pa. 1999



 

 Go

John Clellan Holmes

1952

Thunder's Mouth Press

New York 1997

 

The Street

New Orleans 2002

The Inner Ear

"I am with all rebels everywhere. Against all people who are    
       satisfied."

- Carl Sandburg

Swan Lake

 Schwansee                                                       Sue Hill 2012

Comix

M. Hill 1981

The Street

Amsterdam                     S. Hill 2012

 

The Inner Ear

"Oonu gimme back my trombone, man:

  i's time to blow me mind."

-Mervin Morris

Beauty Is...

 

Originally published in The White Buffalo Gazette

Finnegan's Wake

‘Finnegans Wake’ Follows Tocqueville Onto Chinese Best-Seller List

"...the translator, Dai Congrong of Fudan University, who spent nearly 10 years wrestling with Joyce’s runaway sentences and knotty coinages, confessed that even she didn’t fully understand the book. 'I would not be faithful to the original intent of the novel if my translation made it easy to comprehend,' she said." JENNIFER SCHUESSLER, NY Times
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/finnegans-wake-follows-tocqueville-onto-chinese-best-seller-list/


Chinese translation of James Joyce's novel ‘Finnegans Wake’ becomes best-seller
"The famous novel took eight years to translate into Chinese and an initial run of 8,000 copies sold out in just over one month, since its release on December 25." IrishCentral Staff Writers

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Chinese-translation-of-James-Joyces-novel-Finnegans-Wake-becomes-best-seller-190820571.html

Translation of 'Finnegans Wake' sells in China
" 'It's beyond my comprehension that a niche work should cause a sales tsunami,' Li Weiqi, a bank employee and an avid reader from Shanghai, wrote on his microblog after he spotted a huge outdoor lightbox advertisement for the novel. 'Might it be that it's being hawked as a commodity to attract the pretentious?'
   "He added, 'I am sure I cannot decipher the novel, not even a word.' " DIDI TANG, Associated Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g07QX2O165mdMtwJlC50NmAhGLOA?docId=d050f6faa4a04ce8b19ce5fd62e5c44c

 

Poetry as Insurgent Art

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

New Directions

New York 2007

 

"I am signalling you through the flames.
  ...
"Be subversive, constantly questioning reality and the status quo.
  ...
"Your poems must be more than want ads for broken hearts.
  ...
"Words can save you where guns can't.
  ...
"See the rose through world-colored glasses.
  ...
"Challenge capitalism masquerading as democracy.
  ...
"Stand up for the stupid and crazy.
  ...
"Mock those who tell you you're living in a dream world..."


 

Transportation

Originally published in Not My Small Diary
by Delaine, 2011

Kozmik Star Comics

by M. Hill

First published by Tom Brinkmann

1982

The Inner Ear

"This poem merely wants to vibrate

  Along your inner ear"

-Margaret Gill

Sharon Steel

Mike Hill

1990

Wave

Originally published by B.N. Duncan in Tele Times #25
Sept. 1981, Berkeley, Calif.

Letters to The Worker Poet

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The Inner Ear

"...reality was a scene too narrow for his mind."

-Samuel Johnson, "The Life of Milton"

The Bear in Winter

Originally published in
The White Buffalo Gazette
 2011

Pittsburgh, Penna.

Must Have Interest In Art

 

 

I read an ad in the classifieds:

"Must have interest in art."

Like I must have air.

 

M. Hill

5-29-95

Viking I

A History of Underground Comics

Mark James Estren

Straight Arow Books

San Francisco

1974

 

 

 

"According to Marshall McLuhan, comics 'provide very little data about any particular moment in time, or aspect in space, of an object. The viewer, or reader, is compelled to participate in completing and interpreting the few hints provided by the bounding lines... Comics... are a highly participational form of expression.' "

- from the introduction

Book Cover Design

M. Hill

Driftwood on Presque Isle