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Seven Songs (1982) by 23 Skidoo. Sleeve by Neville Brody.<\/em><\/p>\n The first volume of The Graphic Canon<\/em> will be published in May by Seven Stories Press<\/a>, a collection of comic strip adaptations and illustrations edited by Russ Kick. The anthology has already picked up some attention at the Guardian<\/em>\u2014Western canon to be rewritten as three-volume graphic novel<\/a>\u2014and Publishers’ Weekly<\/em>\u2014Graphic Canon: Comics Meet the Classics<\/a>. I know someone<\/a> who’ll bristle at the lazy use of “graphic novel”. The Graphic Canon<\/em> isn’t anything of the sort, it’s a three-volume voyage through world literature presented in graphic form with a list of contributors including Robert Crumb, Will Eisner, Molly Crabapple, Rick Geary, and Roberta Gregory. My contribution is a very condensed adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/em> that will appear in volume 2. More about that closer to the publication date.<\/p>\n \u2022 LTM Records announces a vinyl reissue for Seven Songs<\/em> (1982) by 23 Skidoo<\/a>, an album produced by Ken Thomas, Genesis P Orridge & Peter Christopherson that still sounds like nothing else. Related: an extract from Tranquilizer<\/em><\/a> (1984) by Richard Heslop, cut-up Super-8 film\/video with audio collage by 23 Skidoo.<\/p>\n \u2022 New exhibitions: Another Air: The Czech\u2013Slovak Surrealist Group, 1991\u20132011<\/em><\/a> at the Old Town City Hall, Prague (details in English here<\/a>), and Ed Sanders \u2013 Fuck You \/ A Magazine of the Arts 1962\u20131965<\/em><\/a> at Boo-Hooray, NYC.<\/p>\n \u2022 “…we have a situation where the banks seem to be an untouchable monarchy beyond the reach of governmental restraint…” Alan Moore<\/a> writes for the BBC about V for Vendetta<\/em> and the rise of Anonymous.<\/p>\n \u2022 Announcing Arc<\/em><\/a>: “a new magazine about the future from the makers of New Scientist<\/em>“. Digital-only for the time being, as they explain here<\/a>. Their Tumblr has tasters of the contents.<\/p>\n \u2022 From another world: Acid Mothers Temple<\/a> interviewed. Also at The Quietus: Jajouka or Joujouka?<\/a> The conflicted legacy of the Master Musicians.<\/p>\n \u2022 More from Susan Cain<\/a> on introverts versus extroverts. Related: Groupthink: The brainstorming myth<\/a> by Jonah Lehrer.<\/p>\n \u2022 Ten Thousand Waves<\/em><\/a>, an installation by Isaac Julien.<\/p>\n \u2022 Afterlife<\/em>: mouldscapes photographed by Heikki Leis<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 The book covers of Ralph Steadman<\/a>. And more<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 “James Joyce children’s book sparks feud<\/a>”<\/p>\n \u2022 Arkitypo<\/a>: the final alphabet.<\/p>\n \u2022 Book Aesthete<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 Kundalini<\/em><\/a> (1982) by 23 Skidoo | Vegas El Bandito<\/em><\/a> (1982) by 23 Skidoo | IY<\/em><\/a> (1982) by 23 Skidoo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Seven Songs (1982) by 23 Skidoo. Sleeve by Neville Brody. 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