Comments on: Guess My Theory (2000AD 30th birthday edition)

By: pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør

pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:43:57 +0000

haha “druillet and flaubert’s SALAMMBO!”

metal hurlant — maybe french SF hippydom generally — SEEMS somehow more punk-friendly than its US or UK cousins: i don’t know if that’s a hangover from 68

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:17:46 +0000

That’ll teach me not to follow the links.

Druillet to Dredd is a less surprising – but equally undocumented AFAIK – journey: of course Carlos Ezquerra would have known all those psychedelic 70s BDs. I bet he was into prog too though!

By: Stevie

Stevie — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:59:21 +0000

According to the linked article, the ad is from 1973. However, Barney nicked the image from French comic artist Philippe Druillet’s ‘Les Iles du Vent Sauvage’ – http://www.coolfrenchcomics.com/lonesloane.html – which was 1970…

By: alext

alext — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:43:54 +0000

According to the page linked that image is derived from a French source, and the B. Bubbles poster version is titled ‘Fanon – Dragon Commando’ (my emphasis). Does someone want to fill in the blanks and come up with a post-colonial explanation of all this?

By: pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør

pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:56:19 +0000

early punk year-zero-ism was on the whole very anti SF — partly bcz prog (loosely) was the wing of rock which dealt in SF, partly bcz DOLE QUEUES and RELEVANCE were the deal, partly bcz DYSTOPIA HERE NOW, i think (with a stress on depicting same in social realist terms) — the neo-ballardians — and all that herkyjerky* TV-phobic “new musik” — were the start of popu

for some reason the protogrebo hawkwind were generally spared full-on punk hostility, progpurge-wise: in similar manner, michael moorcock also got a bit more of a free pass than you’d expect (in both cases the hippydom was salted with something else) (but i’m not convinced the something else was anything worth much)

what’s particularly interesting about b.bubbles to me is that he represents a HIGH level of developed technique and craft (and historical understanding) — which punk and post-punk were hostile to in the area of music but needed LOTS of in the visual area

*when did this useful word stop being used?

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:08:40 +0000

When is the poster from?

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:06:55 +0000

This is remarkable! (And weirdly undocumented, or at the very least not part of the Dredd creation myth)

All those Euro-artists were monster progheads I bet.