{"id":21949,"date":"2022-08-27T19:25:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T18:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=21949"},"modified":"2022-08-27T19:25:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T18:25:15","slug":"weekend-links-636","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2022\/08\/27\/weekend-links-636\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 636"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Untitled painting by Oliver Frey based on The Wild Boys by William Burroughs.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 RIP Oliver Frey, a prolific illustrator and comic artist whose art for UK computer magazines in the 1980s made a lasting impression on a generation of games players, hence this obituary at Eurogamer<\/a>. On this site, however, Frey is also remembered for his artistic alter-ego “Zack<\/a>” (previously<\/a>), an equally prolific creator of comic-strip erotica for Britain’s few gay-porn mags at a time when any such material being sold in the UK ran the risk of police seizure or even a court appearance. For a while, Zack’s Rogue and Tom of Finland’s Kake were rare examples of assertive, unashamedly lustful gay characters with strips of their own, which makes Oliver Frey something of a pioneer, and a daring one at that.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “The title characters were a trio of boys named Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews, who live in the fictional California town of Rocky Beach, not far from Hollywood, on the coast…” Colin Fleming<\/a> on the satisfyingly spooky adventures of Robert Arthur Jr’s Three Investigators. I was never as obsessive as Fleming was but I read all of the books about the trio that I could find in our local library.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Though its inimitable visual style has safeguarded it as a quintessential cult film most at home behind a shroud of pot smoke, the influence of Koyaanisqatsi<\/em> has been sweeping.” Josef Steen<\/a> on 40 years of Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Putting it simply, coincidences and curiosities and chance encounters happen when people go looking for zodiacs.” Mark Valentine<\/a> on Britain’s terrestrial zodiacs.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Literary Hub: Marguerite Duras<\/a> on writing the screenplay for Alain Resnais\u2019s Hiroshima Mon Amour<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 New\/old music: a reissue of Solar Maximum<\/em><\/a> by Majeure.<\/p>\n

\u2022 New music: Kerber Remixes<\/em><\/a> by Yann Tiersen.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: Ingrid Caven<\/a> Day.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Threnody To The Victims Of Hiroshima<\/a><\/em> (1959-61) by Krzysztof Penderecki | Memory Of Hiroshima<\/a><\/em> (1973) by Stomu Yamash’ta | Hiroshima Mon Amour<\/em><\/a> (1977) by Ultravox!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Untitled painting by Oliver Frey based on The Wild Boys by William Burroughs. \u2022 RIP Oliver Frey, a prolific illustrator and comic artist whose art for UK computer magazines in the 1980s made a lasting impression on a generation of games players, hence this obituary at Eurogamer. On this site, however, Frey is also remembered … Continue reading “Weekend links 636”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Weekend links 636","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,9,29,7,5,48,3,16],"tags":[2384,4401,3109,4742,12412,12410,1638,10206,10760,2903,518,12408,3083,12409,6261,2194,2210,1190,12411,1643],"class_list":["post-21949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-comics","category-electronica","category-film","category-gay","category-illustrators","category-music","category-occult","tag-alain-resnais","tag-colin-fleming","tag-dennis-cooper","tag-godfrey-reggio","tag-ingrid-caven","tag-josef-steen","tag-krzysztof-penderecki","tag-majeure-musician","tag-marguerite-duras","tag-mark-valentine","tag-oliver-frey","tag-robert-arthur-jr","tag-stomu-yamashta","tag-the-three-investigators","tag-the-wild-boys","tag-tom-of-finland","tag-ultravox","tag-william-burroughs","tag-yann-tiersen","tag-zack"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5I1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}