by Mitchell Hooks
This book was originally published in 1955 but I’m not sure which edition this cover was done for. The artwork was done by Mitchell Hooks, whose signature is visible on the left hand side of the cover.
On August 1st, 1981, MTV premiered. Over the course of 24 hours, 166 unique music videos were played on MTV. Yes, there was a time when the M actually did stand for music.
The 59th video to air on MTV was the video for David Bowie’s Boys Keep Swinging. This was also the first Bowie video to ever air on the network. Not surprisingly, Bowie would soon prove himself to be a master of the video form. He was also one of the few artists willing to publicly criticize MTV for rarely playing non-white artists during the first years of their existence. Pretty cool guy, that David Bowie.
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The First Videos Shown on MTV:
Hey, look! It’s a vampire film, just in time for October!
Are there any poverty-stricken vampires? Have you ever noticed that every vampire is rich, sarcastic, and really into EDM? You never catch vampires driving a truck or working in the grocery store, I guess. I’d like to see a movie about blue-collar vampires. They could ever call it Blue Collar Vampires. I don’t care, I won’t sue.
Until then, though, Night Teeth loos like it could be fun. We’ll find out soon!
As for what I would do if I know it was my last night on Earth …. I don’t know. Probably cry, to be honest. That would be kind of a depressing thing to know.
by Mitchell Hooks
This colorful cover is from 1961. It was done by Mitchell Hooks, who signature is visible in the bottom left hand corner of the cover.
On August 1st, 1981, MTV premiered. Over the course of 24 hours, 166 unique music videos were played on MTV. Yes, there was a time when the M actually did stand for music.
The 58th video to air on MTV, after a reshowing of The Pretenders’s Message of Love, was All Night Long by Rainbow. Despite the way it may look, the video above does play if you click on play. Go ahead and watch it because this video and song is better than the other Rainbow song that MTV played on its first day.
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The First Videos Shown on MTV:
Crucially, in an extended scene that features a couple playing a game of ping-pong both literally and metaphorically, Bastien Vives fixes his focus solely on the man — not just what he’s doing, but what he’s saying, how he’s reacting, what he’s feeling. The woman, however, is both silent and invisible — and compared to the treatment women receive from the cartoonist in the rest of The Butchery (originally released in its native France in 2017, newly available in an English language edition from Fantagraphics with translation by Jenna Allen), trust me when I say this is a kindness. It’s better not be featured at all than it is to be depicted as, by turns, an unknowable mystery and a frigid, uncommunicative bitch.
Vives drew some heat for the rather “male gaze-y” nature of his recent collaborative graphic novel The Grand Odalisque, but it’s hard to say which…
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by Mitchell Hooks
This cover is from 1956 and, judging from the cover, it’s about a P.I. who takes the sanctity of his office very serious. The cover was done by Mitchell Hooks.
On August 1st, 1981, MTV premiered. Over the course of 24 hours, 166 unique music videos were played on MTV. Yes, there was a time when the M actually did stand for music.
The 57th video to air on MTV was the video for Kate Bush’s The Man With The Child In His Eyes. Amazingly, Bush wrote this song when she was only 13 and recorded it when she was 16.
The video was directed by Keith MacMillan, who directed several music videos in the 70s and early 80s. Along with Kate Bush, he worked for artists such as Paul McCartney, Culture Club, Pay Benatar, and Motorhead.
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The First Videos Shown on MTV:
At the risk of sounding grandiose, Austin English is a bit of a renaissance man in the truest sense of that term — through his utterly unique cartooning, his publishing efforts with Domino Books, his eclectic comics distribution service (I number myself among its regular customers), his position as editor of the must-read ‘zine But Is It — Comic Aht?, and his new wholesale venture, he’s one of the people most responsible for pushing this medium we all love forward in no small way. I recently had the chance to converse with him about where his various and sundry projects came from, where they’re at now, and where they’re going —
Four Color Apocalypse : For readers who may not be aware of Domino, what was the impetus behind its creation, and how long has it been a going concern now?
Austin English : I started Domino in 2011…
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I really don’t have much to say about this teaser, beyond the fact that it looks really good. With Ethan Coen reportedly taking a break from cinema to focus on theater, this will be Joel Coen’s first film as a solo director. Shakespeare, though, seems like a good collaborator. Both Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand are already being spoken of as very likely Oscar nominees as a result of their work in this film.
The Tragedy of MacBeth will be released in theaters in Christmas and will be available on AppleTV+ in January. For the record, this film is the one reason why I currently subscribe to AppleTV+.
Through the Shattered Lens 