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Garo Manga: The First Decade, 1964-1973
The Center For Book Arts
April 14, 2010 - June 26, 2010

Garo is a highly regarded underground avant-garde comics journal from Japan. In this show, you can see many issues of Garo, from its first issue in September 1964 to its 120th issue in December 1973. Amazing variety of styles and subject matter. Super inspiring. The top images are from a post about this exhibit from the way cool Same Hat! blog. Photography by Noel.

Spent some time surfing around Same Hat! and found some links to manga by Maki Sasaki, (well known Garo contributor who's also featured in the Garo Manga exhibit)
Below are images from "Desert Eyeball" 1970, and "A Dream To Have In Heaven", 1967. Click on the story title to see full stories (big scans!).

Jarvid 9: Kava Jar Race (2xCDr, Ltd), New Age Tapes, 2009 (front & back)

Jarvid 9: Gecko (2xCDr, Ltd), New Age Tapes 2009 (front & back)

Jarvid 9: Flushpipe (2xCDr, Ltd), New Age Tapes 2009 (front & back)

Blown away by these sleeves from a recent series of releases by contemporary musician James Ferraro. I'm featuring a few here, but there are many many more here going back to 2004. I'm feeling the masterful xerox collage style. Noise in the machine. On a visual level, these images express exactly how (cool & weird) the music sounds. I first heard a similar kind of sound in the early 00's from Ariel Pinks Haunted Graffiti, but to me, with Ferraro's sound, the use collage is way more embraced and you really travel..! Stoner Murk", and "Hypnagogic Pop" are a few terms I've come across describing the music of Ferraro, his collaborators and similiar muscians. Here's an article from The Wire about the "Hypnagogic Pop" sound.

"...I noticed in one folder, along with the O'Doherty page, a passport application, some yellowed clippings from Apollinaire and Henry James, pages ripped from old Hulk comics and an advertisement from the 1940's British magazine Lilliput for men's underwear, the image from which Pettibon once used in a drawing. It was the slogan that interested him now, he said: "For Men of Peace, for Men of War, for Men Who Find Them Both a Bore." On a separate page, torn from "Finnegans Wake," Pettibon had underlined some of Joyce's made-up words, like "zoravarn" and "damman," to which he added: "funeureal," "puskkalating," "perticulating."

Excerpt from an inspiring article about Pettibon at nytimes.com.

via The New Vulgate