Personal:
What can I say about November 2025 other than “Whelp! …THAT happened.”. As my friends know, and I guess anyone adept at reading between the lines of my stories can likely divine, I’m depressed and distressed about the outcome of the most recent election. The first time around for the president elect was a daily onslaught on my mental stability and I’m expecting this time around to be worse. To save my strength, decided early on that I would go on a social media hiatus as soon as I was finished with the trade paperback pre-order sale. Which I did on 11/15. (see below)
It wasn’t all bad. I did get to see the Fleshtones! They were the headliners at the Crazy Mama’s 45th anniversary reunion show held at Skully’s here in Columbus. (The late great Crazy Mama’s, of course, playing a central role in Bela’s Living with Explosions stories and my development as an artist) Also on the bill were the 3 Speeds (featuring frequent Nix artist Matt Wyatt), The Whiskey Daredevils, Willie Phoenix, and the Screaming Urge. Sadly I missed the former two, but did catch the latter two acts. Willie Phoenix was the first person I saw play live in Columbus when I moved here in 1989. We met on the street and he seemed genuinely interested in getting to know me and my art. I had never seen the Screaming Urge, despite multiple reunion shows of the Columbus punk standard bearers. The Fleshtones, as always, KILLED IT. They always do, even when an audience is strangely sparse due to four opening bands and post-election fatigue.
More Fleshtones for me, suckers.
Nix Comics:
As I mentioned, the pre-order sale for 2024 is over. It officially ended on 11/15, but just as I gave it a soft launch, I gave it a soft finish. The links strewn across social media are all still live, I believe. The books are still available for order, though the discount period is over. For those of you interested in such things, at some point I’ll do a full recap talking about the plusses and minuses of doing a DIY crowdfunder over an established third party platform like Kickstarter. Suffice to say right now, I liked it better despite probably not selling as many books or pulling in as much money.
Thanks to everyone who picked up some comics/records and thanks to everybody who helped spread the word!
All three books have been submitted to a printer. I chose a local operation that is a little more expensive than some of the on-line comics-specific printers like comix Wellspring and Mixam. My hope is that it will lead to a quicker turn around time on the project and help me get books to everyone who pre-ordered prior to Christmas. (Looking good, they’re already more responsive to emails.) Fingers crossed at any rate.
I’m starting to look ahead to 2025. Now that I’ve cleared a three year old project off the desk, I can focus on finishing up the relatively less tardy issues of Tales from the Crate and Sketchbook Picture Sleeves books that are also cluttering up my table top. From there, who knows? Maybe some events like the Indie Comics Fair. Very possibly a Nix Romance Comic anthology titled “The Flipside of Love.” We’ll see what I can actually wrap my head around.
Records Listened To November 2024
Another “good thing” that happened in November was an opportunity to pull out my old Record Swami persona. My pal Josie asked me to play some tunes at her birthday party/cartoon music video premier. It was an honor! I just wish that my lack of technical prowess and equipment hadn’t been a stress point for the evening. What can I say? The Record Swami is a creature of magic, not science.
If you want the Swami’s playlist for the event, scroll down to 11/16. All of the 7” records were played. The garage punk unknowns boxset was played as we helped clean-up, so not part of the “set.” as it wuz.
Date | Artist | Title | Format | Size |
1-Nov | Fleshtones | The Band Drinks for Free | LP | 12" |
1-Nov | Subsonics | A Lot To Forget | LP | 12" |
1-Nov | Who | The Who Sing My Generation | LP | 12" |
2-Nov | Saints | (I'm) Stranded | LP | 12" |
4-Nov | Alex Chilton | A Man Called Destruction | LP | 12"x2 |
4-Nov | Amy Rigby | Old Guys | LP | 12" |
4-Nov | Link Wray | Live in 85 | LP | 12" |
4-Nov | Saints | Eternally Yours | LP | 12" |
4-Nov | Who | Quadrophenia | LP | 12"x2 |
5-Nov | Brood | Beyond The Valley of The Brood | LP | 12" |
5-Nov | Hank Williams | Country & Western Classics | Boxset | 12"x3 |
5-Nov | Paul Revere & the Raiders | In The Beginning | LP | 12" |
6-Nov | Guitar Wolf | UFO Romantic | LP | 12" |
7-Nov | Girl Trouble | Stomp and Shout and Work It On Out | EP | 12" |
7-Nov | Johnny Thunders & Patti Paladin | Crawfish | Single | 7" |
7-Nov | Johnny Thunders & the Chesterfield Kings | Critics Choice | EP | 7" |
7-Nov | Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane | Rough Mix | LP | 12" |
7-Nov | Sons of Hercules | Surfin' in the Bars | Single | 7" |
7-Nov | Sons of Hercules | Spittin' Fire | Single | 7" |
7-Nov | Sons of Hercules | Tight Fit | Single | 7" |
7-Nov | Statics | Sold My Soul | Single | 7" |
7-Nov | Thee Stash | Suave as Old Arseholes | Single | 7" |
7-Nov | Thee Stash | Should I Suck or Should I Blow | Single | 7" |
7-Nov | Tommyknockers | Snake Lightning | EP | 7" |
7-Nov | Tommyknockers | Noisy Beast | Single | 7" |
7-Nov | Trash Brats | Someday's too Late | Single | 7" |
7-Nov | Trash Brats | Must Be The Cocaine | Single | 7" |
7-Nov | Trash Brats | Rocket To Heaven | Single | 7" |
7-Nov | X-Ray Spex | Germ Free Adolescents | LP | 12" |
7-Nov | Zack Static Sect | Mari Likes To Ride the Subway Train | Single | 7" |
11-Nov | Full Time Men | Your Face My Fist | LP | 12" |
11-Nov | Full Time Men | Self-Titled | EP | 12" |
11-Nov | Selecter | Too Much Pressure | LP | 12" |
11-Nov | Senders | Retour A L'Envoyeur | LP | 12" |
12-Nov | Fleshtones | Roman Gods | LP | 12" |
12-Nov | Fleshtones | Hexbreaker | LP | 12" |
12-Nov | Fleshtones | Girl From Baltimore | Single | 7" |
12-Nov | Jeff Dahl | Ultra Under | LP | 12" |
12-Nov | Rudy "Tutti" Grayzell | Let's Get Wild | LP | 12" |
13-Nov | Cramps | Bad Music for Bad People | LP | 12" |
13-Nov | Holly Golightly | Laugh It All Up | LP | 12" |
13-Nov | Pretenders | Learning To Crawl | LP | 12" |
13-Nov | Ramones | Rocket to Russia | LP | 12" |
13-Nov | Records | Rock & Roll Love Letter | EP | 12" |
13-Nov | Rufus Thomas | Clown Prince of Dance | LP | 12" |
14-Nov | Alice Cooper | Welcome to My Nightmare | LP | 12" |
14-Nov | Dave Edmunds | DE The 7th | LP | 12" |
14-Nov | Kinks | Compleat Collection | LP | 12"x2 |
14-Nov | Rolling Stones | Aftermath | LP | 12" |
14-Nov | Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers | Self-Titled | LP | 12" |
15-Nov | 20/20 | Strange Side of Love | EP | 7" |
15-Nov | Action Suits | Four Track MInd | Single | 7" |
15-Nov | Al & the Untouchables | Self-Titled | EP | 7" |
15-Nov | Alarm Clocks | Ramona | Single | 7" |
15-Nov | Alvin Stardust | You You You | Single | 7" |
15-Nov | Any Trouble | Second Choice | Single | 7" |
15-Nov | Apemen | Lucky in Love | EP | 7" |
15-Nov | Arondies | Class of '69 | Single | 7" |
15-Nov | Arrows | Blues Theme | Single | 7" |
15-Nov | Bill Deal & the Rhondells | Swingin' tight | Single | 7" |
15-Nov | Blues Magoos | (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet | Single | 7" |
15-Nov | Dantes | Connection | Single | 7" |
15-Nov | Del-Vetts | I Call My Baby STP | Single | 7" |
15-Nov | Diaboliks | I Can't Sleep At Night | Single | 7" |
15-Nov | Embrooks | Self-Titled | EP | 7" |
15-Nov | Fantastic Dee-Jays | Fight Fire | EP | 7" |
15-Nov | Hoyt Axton | Della and the Dealer | Single | 7" |
15-Nov | Randy Bachelors | Bad Advice | Single | 7" |
15-Nov | Romantics | Tell It To Carrie | Single | 7" |
15-Nov | Suzi Quatro | Tear Me apart | Single | 7" |
15-Nov | Swinging Blue Jeans | Hippy Hippy shake | Single | 7" |
15-Nov | Ventures | Walk Don't run '64 | Single | 7" |
15-Nov | Venus & the Razorblades | I Wanna Be Where The Boys Are | Single | 7" |
15-Nov | Wreckless Eric | Haunted House | Single | 7" |
16-Nov | Archies | Bang Shang a Lang | Single | 7" |
16-Nov | Banana Splits | Doin' the Banana Split | EP | 7" |
16-Nov | Brains | Money Changes Everything | Single | 7" |
16-Nov | Brood | Since He's Been Gone | Single | 7" |
16-Nov | Clash | Gates of the West | Single | 7" |
16-Nov | Devil Dogs | Radio Beat | Single | 7" |
16-Nov | Esquerita | Hittin' On Nothin' | Single | 7" |
16-Nov | Heartdrops | Truth Comes Around | Single | 7" |
16-Nov | Herman's Hermits | A Kind of Hush | Single | 7" |
16-Nov | Holly & The Italians | Tell that Girl To Shut Up | Single | 7" |
16-Nov | Hollywood Argyles | Alley Oop | Single | 7" |
16-Nov | Pinkz | USA | Single | 7" |
16-Nov | Ramones | Carbona Not Glue | Single | 7" |
16-Nov | Real Kids | Hot Dog | Single | 7" |
16-Nov | Rezillos | Top of the Pops | Single | 7" |
16-Nov | Standells | Dirty Water | Single | 7" |
16-Nov | Swinging Blue Jeans | Hippy Hippy shake | Single | 7" |
16-Nov | Thee Headcoats | Girl from '62 | Single | 7" |
16-Nov | Various Artists | Garage Punk Unknowns | Boxset | 12"x4 |
16-Nov | Wanda Jackson | Funnel of Love | Single | 7" |
17-Nov | Ramones | Ramonesmania | LP | 12"x2 |
18-Nov | Blasters | Over There | EP | 12" |
18-Nov | Chuck Berry | Roll Over Beethoven | Single | 7" |
18-Nov | Chuck Berry | Gold Decade Volume III | LP | 12"x2 |
18-Nov | Clash | Give 'Em Enough Rope | LP | 12" |
18-Nov | Hollies | Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress | Single | 7" |
18-Nov | Little Jimmy Dickens | Greatest Hits | LP | 12" |
18-Nov | Mac Curtis | Grand Daddy's Rockin' | LP | 12" |
18-Nov | Sleepy LaBeef | Early, Rare, & Rockin' Sides | LP | 12" |
19-Nov | Lazy Cowgirls | Ragged Soul | LP | 12" |
19-Nov | Radiators | Ghost Town | LP | 12" |
19-Nov | Rip Offs | Gotta Record | LP | 12" |
19-Nov | Sharkmuffin | Chartreuse | LP | 12" |
19-Nov | Wreckless Eric | Wonderful World of Wreckless Eric | LP | 12" |
19-Nov | Saints | Let's Pretend | Single | 7" |
19-Nov | Fastbacks | New Mansion of Sound | LP | 12" |
20-Nov | Lazy Cowgirls | You | Single | 7" |
20-Nov | Al Perry | Little Bird | Single | 7" |
20-Nov | Gories | Be Nice | Single | 7" |
20-Nov | Dave Clark Five | Can't You See That She's Mine | Single | 7" |
20-Nov | Cars | Touch and Go | Single | 7" |
20-Nov | Joe Tex | Bad Feet | Single | 7" |
20-Nov | Mel & Tim | Backfield In Motion | Single | 7" |
20-Nov | Jags | Party Games | Single | 7" |
20-Nov | Holly & The Italians | Miles Away | Single | 7" |
20-Nov | Mighty Hannibal | Hymn No. 5 | Single | 7" |
20-Nov | Ian Gomm | Come On | Single | 7" |
20-Nov | Elvis Brothers | Somebody Call The Police | Single | 7" |
20-Nov | Graham Parker | Hold Back The Night | EP | 7" |
20-Nov | Nomads | Wimp | Single | 7" |
20-Nov | Romulans | She's Tara | Single | 7" |
20-Nov | Fleshtones | American Beat '84 | Single | 7" |
20-Nov | Thee Mighty Caesars | Cowboys Are Square | Single | 7" |
20-Nov | Original Sins | Just 14 | Single | 7" |
20-Nov | Hentchmen | So Many Girls | Single | 7" |
20-Nov | Chesterfield Kings | Next One In Line | EP | 7" |
20-Nov | Count Backwards | Double Decker Bus | Single | 7" |
20-Nov | Cynics | I Want It All | Single | 7" |
20-Nov | Eddie & the Hotrods | Live At The Marquee | Single | 7" |
20-Nov | Fall Outs | Fine Young Men | LP | 12" |
20-Nov | Roky Erickson & the Explosions | Halloween Recorded Live '79-81 | LP | 12"x2 |
21-Nov | Ventures | Surfin' and Spyin' | Single | 7" |
21-Nov | Greg Kihn Band | Reunited | Single | 7" |
21-Nov | Kark Kent | Don't Care | EP | 7" |
21-Nov | Lew Lewis | 1-30 2-30 3-35 | Single | 7" |
21-Nov | Roy Loney & the Long Shots | Record Party | EP | 7" |
21-Nov | Joan Jett & The Blackhearts | I Love Rock 'n' Roll | Single | 7" |
21-Nov | Kirtsy MacColl | Terry | Single | 7" |
21-Nov | Chris Spedding & The Vibrators | Pogo Dancing | Single | 7" |
21-Nov | Alvin Stardust | You You You | Single | 7" |
21-Nov | Paul Revere & the Raiders | Ups and Downs | Single | 7" |
21-Nov | Suzi Quatro | Tear Me Apart | Single | 7" |
21-Nov | Diodes | Child Star | EP | 7" |
21-Nov | Dr. Feelgood | Milk and Alcohol | Single | 7" |
21-Nov | Music Explosion | Little Bit O Soul | Single | 7" |
21-Nov | Pretty Things | Buzz The Jerk | EP | 7" |
21-Nov | Zeros | I Don't Wanna | Single | 7" |
21-Nov | Zombies | She's Not There | Single | 7" |
21-Nov | Nathaniel Mayer | Ride In My 225 | Single | 7" |
21-Nov | Nervous Eaters | Loretta | Single | 7" |
21-Nov | Romantics | Tell It To Carrie | Single | 7" |
21-Nov | Wreckless Eric | Leisure Land | LP | 12" |
21-Nov | Wreckless Eric | The Whole Wide World | LP | 12" |
22-Nov | Mickey Murray | Lonely Room | Single | 7" |
22-Nov | Nervous Norvus | Ape Call | Single | 7" |
22-Nov | Raymen | Buzzsaw Baby of the Hollywood Hills | EP | 7" |
22-Nov | Red Elvises | Love Pipe | Single | 7" |
22-Nov | Diana Ross | Reach Out I'll be There | Single | 7" |
22-Nov | Jack Scott | Goodbye Baby | Single | 7" |
22-Nov | Shoes | Tomorrow Night | Single | 7" |
22-Nov | Barrett Strong | Money | Single | 7" |
22-Nov | Subs | Gimme Your Heart | Single | 7" |
22-Nov | Mondo Topless | In The End | Single | 7" |
22-Nov | Monotones | Book of Love | Single | 7" |
22-Nov | Mr. T Experience | Tapin' Up My Heart | EP | 7" |
22-Nov | Prissteens | Hercules | Single | 7" |
22-Nov | Priscillas | All My Friends Are Zombies | Single | 7" |
22-Nov | Positives | I've been Hurt | Single | 7" |
22-Nov | Pork Dukes | Pop Star | Single | 7" |
22-Nov | Pebbles | We're Going Shopping | Single | 7" |
22-Nov | Max Frost and the Troopers | Shape of Things To Come | Single | 7" |
22-Nov | End of the Beginning | Maniac | Single | 7" |
22-Nov | Bobby Fuller Four | I Fought The Law | Single | 7" |
22-Nov | Coachmen | Mr. Moon | Single | 7" |
22-Nov | Ohio Express | Yummy Yummy Yummy | Single | 7" |
22-Nov | Paley Brothers | You're the Best | Single | 7" |
22-Nov | Spizzenergi | Where's Captain Kirk | Single | 7" |
22-Nov | Clique | Sugar on Sunday | Single | 7" |
22-Nov | Chesterfield Kings | A Dark Corner | Single | 7" |
22-Nov | Brood | But You're Gone | Single | 7" |
23-Nov | Kinks | Sunny Afternoon | Single | 7" |
23-Nov | Bobbyteens | Treat me Nice | Single | 7" |
23-Nov | Surf Trio | Steamer | Single | 7" |
23-Nov | Saints | (You Can't Tamper With) The Temple of the Lord | Single | 7" |
23-Nov | Rolling Stones | Get Off of My Cloud | Single | 7" |
23-Nov | Dave Edmunds | Baby I Love You | Single | 7" |
23-Nov | Chuck Berry | Too Much Monkey Business | Single | 7" |
23-Nov | Chesterfield Kings | Baby Doll | Single | 7" |
23-Nov | Nick Lowe | Halfway to Paradise | Single | 7" |
23-Nov | Rolling Stones | Dandelion | Single | 7" |
23-Nov | Subsonics | Wind Up Doll | Single | 7" |
23-Nov | Saints | One Two Three Four | Single | 7" |
24-Nov | Troggs | Wild Thing | Single | 7" |
24-Nov | Ike & Tina Turner | If I Can't Be First | Single | 7" |
24-Nov | Titus Turner | Sound Of | Single | 7" |
24-Nov | Von Zippers | Twist Off | Single | 7" |
24-Nov | Jane Wiedlin | Blue Kiss | Single | 7" |
24-Nov | Werewolves | Hollywood Millionaires | Single | 7" |
24-Nov | Tex Williams | The Big Man | Single | 7" |
24-Nov | Stevie & the Secrets | Give Me a Call | Single | 7" |
25-Nov | Superbs | Beans | Single | 7" |
25-Nov | Supersnazz | I Wanna Be Your Love | Single | 7" |
25-Nov | Teengenerate | Wild Weekend | Single | 7" |
25-Nov | Carla Thomas | B-A-B-Y | Single | 7" |
25-Nov | Rattlers | On the Beach | Single | 7" |
25-Nov | Johnny Reno | Naughty Mama | Single | 7" |
25-Nov | Weirdos | Destroy All Music | EP | 7" |
25-Nov | Poppees | Jealousy | Single | 7" |
25-Nov | Earl Mankey | Mau Mau | Single | 7" |
25-Nov | Warlocks | Red Camera | Single | 7" |
25-Nov | Subsonics | Follow me down | LP | 12" |
25-Nov | Subsonics | He's A Keeper of The Flame | Single | 7" |
25-Nov | Subsonics | Voodoo Doll | Single | 7" |
25-Nov | Lazy Cowgirls | Teenage Frankenstein | Single | 7" |
26-Nov | Sewergrooves | The Race Is Over | Single | 7" |
26-Nov | Sewergrooves | A Piece of the Action | Single | 7" |
26-Nov | Sam & Dave | You Don't Know Like I Know | Single | 7" |
26-Nov | Sam & Dave | Soul Man | Single | 7" |
26-Nov | Sam & Dave | Wrap It Up | Single | 7" |
26-Nov | Scandal | Goodbye to You | Single | 7" |
26-Nov | Scandal | Beat of A Heart | Single | 7" |
26-Nov | Scandal | The Warrior | Single | 7" |
26-Nov | Satan's Pilgrims | The Rise and Fall of Flingel Bunt | Single | 7" |
26-Nov | Saturn V featuring orbit | Give Her Lovin' | Single | 7" |
27-Nov | Kinks | Something Else By the Kinks | LP | 12" |
27-Nov | Rivingtons | Mama Oo Mow Mow | Single | 7" |
29-Nov | Wreckless Eric | Transience | LP | 12" |
29-Nov | Friggs | America's Only Rock and roll Parody 10" | EP | 10" |
29-Nov | Nomads | Raw & Rare | EP | 10" |
29-Nov | Lazy Cowgirls | Another Long Goodbye | EP | 10" |
29-Nov | Cybermen | Self-Titled | EP | 10" |
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