Scott Shaw!
08-13-2005, 01:37 AM
On Tuesday, August 16, Rhino’s WEIRD TALES OF THE RAMONES will appear in music and video stores everywhere. But this unique "boxed set" – which includes 85 songs and 18 videos by the seminal punk band on three CDs and one DVD – doesn’t come in a box at all!
Instead, it’s packaged as a deluxe comic book, featuring "stories of the Ramones as illustrated by 25 top comic artists in an amazing 52-page comics anthology", all under a cover by Jim Woodring. The much-anticipated, WEIRD TALES OF THE RAMONES has already been lauded in ROLLING STONE’s column on hot and cool new projects, "The List".
Conceived, edited and art-directed by Rhino’s Hugh Brown, the project began years ago, as a proposed faux "children’s book", featuring snippets of Ramones lyrics illustrated in the style of Dr. Seuss by award-winning cartoonist and longtime Rhino contributor Scott (CBR's ODDBALL COMICS) Shaw! This never appeared, but Rhino’s Brown kept the concept alive and slowly nurtured and developed it. Eventually, it morphed into a much more ambitious project, WEIRD TALES OF THE RAMONES.
Contributors include Rick Altergott, Jordan Crane, Mary Fleener, FLY, Bill Griffith, Tim Hensley, Xaime Hernandez, John Holstrom, Carol Lay, Lorna Miller, John Pound, Johnny Ryan, Souther Salazar, John Seabury, Christine Shields, Steve Vance, Wayno, Steven Weissman and Jim Woodring.
Southern California’s Comic Art Professional Society (CAPS) is well-represented with pieces by Sergio Aragonés (a wonderfully-detailed two-page spread of a Ramones concert), Bobby London (a portrait of the Ramones, sketches done while at a Ramones concert in the 1970’s and an elaborate storyboard for a fictitious Ramones animated cartoon show – done in collaboration with Scott Shaw!), Bill Morrison (a phony ad page for Ramones wigs), Scott Shaw! (the aforementioned Ramones cartoon storyboard and "Hey Ho Let’s Go", a parody of Dr. Seuss) and William Stout (a pseudo-EC comic book cover). The package even comes with a special card illustrated by Charles Burns and a pair of 3-D glasses (required to fully enjoy Steve Vance’s 3-D story.).
For San Diego Comic-Con International, Rhino printed ten different collectible postcards by ten WEIRD TALES OF THE RAMONES contributors attending the event. And four special signed-and-numbered limited edition (of 100) silk-screened posters – featuring art by Aragonés, Shaw!, Stout and Vance – are exclusively available from Tower Records.
WEIRD TALES OF THE RAMONES is priced at $55.00 retail; the silk-screen prints are $100.00 each.
-- SS!
Instead, it’s packaged as a deluxe comic book, featuring "stories of the Ramones as illustrated by 25 top comic artists in an amazing 52-page comics anthology", all under a cover by Jim Woodring. The much-anticipated, WEIRD TALES OF THE RAMONES has already been lauded in ROLLING STONE’s column on hot and cool new projects, "The List".
Conceived, edited and art-directed by Rhino’s Hugh Brown, the project began years ago, as a proposed faux "children’s book", featuring snippets of Ramones lyrics illustrated in the style of Dr. Seuss by award-winning cartoonist and longtime Rhino contributor Scott (CBR's ODDBALL COMICS) Shaw! This never appeared, but Rhino’s Brown kept the concept alive and slowly nurtured and developed it. Eventually, it morphed into a much more ambitious project, WEIRD TALES OF THE RAMONES.
Contributors include Rick Altergott, Jordan Crane, Mary Fleener, FLY, Bill Griffith, Tim Hensley, Xaime Hernandez, John Holstrom, Carol Lay, Lorna Miller, John Pound, Johnny Ryan, Souther Salazar, John Seabury, Christine Shields, Steve Vance, Wayno, Steven Weissman and Jim Woodring.
Southern California’s Comic Art Professional Society (CAPS) is well-represented with pieces by Sergio Aragonés (a wonderfully-detailed two-page spread of a Ramones concert), Bobby London (a portrait of the Ramones, sketches done while at a Ramones concert in the 1970’s and an elaborate storyboard for a fictitious Ramones animated cartoon show – done in collaboration with Scott Shaw!), Bill Morrison (a phony ad page for Ramones wigs), Scott Shaw! (the aforementioned Ramones cartoon storyboard and "Hey Ho Let’s Go", a parody of Dr. Seuss) and William Stout (a pseudo-EC comic book cover). The package even comes with a special card illustrated by Charles Burns and a pair of 3-D glasses (required to fully enjoy Steve Vance’s 3-D story.).
For San Diego Comic-Con International, Rhino printed ten different collectible postcards by ten WEIRD TALES OF THE RAMONES contributors attending the event. And four special signed-and-numbered limited edition (of 100) silk-screened posters – featuring art by Aragonés, Shaw!, Stout and Vance – are exclusively available from Tower Records.
WEIRD TALES OF THE RAMONES is priced at $55.00 retail; the silk-screen prints are $100.00 each.
-- SS!