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Music Is Magic


By The Editor
May 24, 2006 - 06:25

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Remember the first time a record sent  a divine shiver down your spine or when a band changed the way you  dressed forever? How does something that is just noises arranged in  sequence do that? No one knows. It’s just... magic.

Music is literally magic - that's the premise behind PHONOGRAM, a  modern dark-fantasy miniseries debuting this August from Image Comics.

The debut miniseries from award-winning journalist Kieron Gillen  (Plan B, Busted Wonder), PHONOGRAM features artwork by Jamie McKelvie (LONG HOT SUMMER) and is already being dubbed "one of the few truly  essential comics of 2006" by Warren Ellis, who added with caution:  "Read this or lose."

"We want PHONOGRAM to move people as much as the things which  inspired it – both the best pop records and the best pop comics –  moved us," explains Kieron Gillen. "I just feel incredibly privileged  for this to be my first book. If I die without ever doing another  comic after this… well, I can’t really complain. If I only have five  minutes on stage, these are the five minutes I’d want."

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PHONOGRAM traces the misadventures of Phonomancer David Kohl as he  hunts for whoever is interfering with his old patron, the long-dead  Goddess of Britpop, Britannia. If he fails, history itself will be  rewritten – and him entirely out of it. To do so the contemptuous  Kohl must survive the most brutal corners of his world, while his  mind is slowly being unravelled. Appropriately, the covers for the  six-issue series are inspired by a handful of album covers associated  with the Britpop boom of the mid-90s. Issue #1 pays homage to  Elastica's self-titled freshman release, while subsequent issues will  reference Oasis' DEFINITELY MAYBE, Blur's MODERN LIFE IS RUBBISH,  Back Grape's IT'S GREAT WHEN YOU'RE STRAIGHT, YEAH!, Manic Street  Preachers' THE HOLY BIBLE and Suede's self-titled debut.

"When I read the script for PHONOGRAM I just thought 'He’s written a  script for me to draw, even though he doesn’t know me'," says Jamie  McKelvie.

"It’s my love letter to music," says Gillen. "It’s an honest letter –  I’ve been shacked up with her for long enough to know EXACTLY what  she’s like, but I’m still hopelessly in love with her. Songs have  made me kinder, crueller, smarter, dumber, funnier, happier, sadder,  better and worse, and PHONOGRAM is me and McKelvie telling you all  about it."

PHONOGRAM will be available for preordering from the June PREVIEWS  and the first issue of this black & white miniseries is in-stores  August 2nd, 2006. For more information, plus downloadable posters,  flyers and single-page narrative flyers called B-sides, please visit  www.phonogramcomic.com


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