I Don’t Believe in the Sun
Posted by Will Ellwood
The track above is from The Magnetic Fields 1999 triple album “69 Love Songs.” As I’ve not heard the rest of the album, and I can’t write any more about the band, the album or the track. I honestly don’t know enough about any of them. I will aim to correct this oversight soonish.
No, the reason I’m writing a post called “I Don’t Believe in the Sun” is because of an excellent comic written and drawn by Lem for a project called “How Fucking Romantic” which is a group effort to illustrating each of the sixty-nine songs on 69 Love Songs.
The first page of Lem’s comic is below, and clicking on the image will take you to the rest of the six page minicomic. The intention behind the strip is to listen to the song and to read the comic as the music plays. Think of this as the comic equivalent of a music video.
I Don’t Believe In The Sun [How Fucking Romantic]
Categories: Comics, Music, Music Videos, Science Fiction, Space, Spacemen
Posted at 4:36 pm on May 27, 2010
3 Comments -
The Magnetic Fields is one of my favorite bands. Actually, pretty much anything that Steven Merritt does is awesome. I highly recommend you listen to more of them!
Comment by Cole — May 27, 2010 @ 8:23 pm
This is very cool. 69 Love songs is one of my favourite albums and Stephin Merrit is a genius. I can’t wait to see the rest of em. I find it impossible to just read the strip, i have to sing it in my head.
Comment by Lurgus — May 28, 2010 @ 1:04 pm
I did a photoshoot with Magnetic Fields. The show after was really great.
Comment by Angel Ceballos — June 2, 2010 @ 8:52 am