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Warning! Contains spoilers for Art Brut #1!Fans of the art world and superhero stories finally have the perfect comic that blends both worlds with Image Comics' Art Brut #1. What started life as The Electric Sublime returns in a remastered introductory issue that kicks off wonderfully entertaining premise anyone will enjoy.

Art Brut comes from W. Maxwell Prince and Martin Morazzo, the creative team behind Image Comics' hit horror anthology, Ice Cream Man. Art Brut actually precedes the duo's work on Ice Cream Man as the book was originally published in 2017 under its original title, The Electric Sublime, as a four-issue comic series from Idw. However, back in September, Image announced that it would be publishing a remastered version of the series that included "a new Silver Age-style backup story", as well as publishing the comic under it's originally intended name, Art Brut.

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Sports Team are a great six-piece English rock band who formed when they were students at Cambridge. The crisp, jagged tunes on their debut LP, Deep Down Happy, recall Franz Ferdinand or the early Arctic Monkeys; their weird-angled guitars can evoke Pavement or Silkworm; their clever critiques of British life recall Pulp and the Kinks; and singer Alex Rice’s ranting style has shades of Art Brut’s Eddie Argos and Mark E. Smith of the Fall. It’s all conjured with a buoyant sense of good-natured humor, so they...

In March, as the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the music industry was just coming into focus, the online music platform Bandcamp came up with an innovative way to help artists in need: For one day, the site waived its revenue share on all sales, giving musicians more of the money made off of each record, tape, or T-shirt. Fans responded in huge numbers, spending more than $4 million that Friday. Those results were so encouraging that Bandcamp is now extending this sales holiday to the first Friday of the next three months,...

Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”…

Matthias Grunsky: The amazing “Collection de l’Art Brut” in Lausanne, Switzerland. The record “Lieblingsfarben und Tiere” of the German band “Element of Crime”. The exhibition of the spectacular black and white photographs of Sebastião Salgado: “Genesis”

Lavallee: In Results, Andrew Bujalski proposes natural, physical attraction between the sexes, could you discuss framing and how you potentially pulled people together in two shots.

Grunsky: The actors did the part of showing physical attraction. But really the characters have difficulties getting together and communicating. And we tried to emphasize that with the camera. Void spaces around them and lens choices were something we gave a lot of thought in that regard. Because Andrew and I felt that in most of her scenes we wanted to be close to Kat (Cobie Smulders), I mainly shot her with a 35 mm lens, while...

Bigby Wolf (Aka Big Bad Wolf) doesn't have an easy job keeping the fairytale expatriates of Fabletown in line. In fact, his job as sheriff of the secret settlement in the heart of New York has been a near killer during the course of writer Bill Willingham's award-winning comic, "Fables," as he chases down killers and conspirators on the eve of a war with the their homeland.

The season premiere trailer for Telltale's "Fables: The Wolf Among Us" give you a glimpse into what it's like to be in Bigby's big bad shoes as he investigates a murder in this prequel to the comic series.

Clint Mize got a chance to check out "The Wolf Among Us," saying he was impressed with what Telltale has built in their latest comics-to-game adaptation:

Honestly, if you were a fan of "The Walking Dead" and like Telltale's great storytelling, you should just queue...

In the fiction of the "Legacy of Kain" universe, the land of Nosgoth has been ravaged by an ongoing war between mutant vampire lords and the well-armed humans that don't want to be eaten by them. Well, the "Legacy of Kain" universe will be getting a little bloodier in the class-based humans vs. vampires competitive multiplayer game, "Nosgoth."

"Nosgoth" is being developed by Psyonix for the PC. They're the studio behind "Arc Squadron" and they've worked on ports of "Bulletstorm," "Gears of War," and "Homefront." Those multiplayer-focused games may have primed Psyonix to work on the distinctly "Gotham City Imposters"-ish "Nosgoth," which replaces the deliberate, slow-build action of the "Legacy of Kain" series with pounce/shoot/kill multiplayer.

Publisher Square Enix is describing it as a third-person, PvP game set in a brutal fantasy world. The vampire side has its Reaver, Tyrant, and Sentinel classes which roughly equate to the stealth,...

Jean Dubuffet: The Last Two Years Pace Gallery Through March 10, 2012

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) was born in Le Havre and moved to Paris, where he was briefly enrolled at the Académie Julian. Leaving the school in 1918, he began to follow his own path in painting and, after a brief sojourn in wine dealing (the family business), spent the rest of his artistic life seeking an authentic art based on the work of prisoners, the insane, the naïve, and other marginal outsiders. The style he developed, and which ultimately became its own school, is now called Art Brut.

Dubuffet often presented himself as outside the "art world," but this is mildly disingenuous. He was a close friend of both André Masson and Antonin Artaud. His copious writings on art were gathered in the seminal book Asphyxiating Culture -- almost a bible for art students following the wave of Neo Expressionism and the...

Stream Art Brut’s Brilliant! Tragic! in its entirety here Eddie Argos has no illusions that he’s Barry White or Marvin Gaye—or even your average American Idol winner—but that only makes “Sexy,” from Art Brut’s fourth album Brilliant! Tragic! all the more unlikely. “I want to be played in the background, while couples drink their wine,” Argos sings—yes, sings. “That would be a triumph with a voice like mine.” Previously, that “voice like mine” has been a force of will, more like an overenthusiastic comic-book nerd playing rock star than an actual rock star, but it’s been instrumental in putting across...

Eddie Argos has made a career out of brashly getting things off his chest, using his playful indie-rock Ocd to craft compelling tales for funny, clever English art-rock outfit Art Brut. Though the postmodern stream-of-consciousness of songs like “Formed A Band,” “Good Weekend,” and “Bad Weekend” seemed to suggest that Argos and friends had a limited shelf life when they released Bang Bang Rock & Roll in 2005, here they are with album four, continuing Argos’ unlikely run as a frontman, a run that also includes the side project Everybody Was In The French Resistance… Now! Back with his second round ...

Jamie McKelvie has revealed his cover art for the new Art Brut album. The Phonogram artist's work will feature on Brilliant! Tragic!, which will be released in May. "[Art Brut frontman] Eddie Argos asked me if I wanted to do the art for the new album," McKelvie told Comics Alliance. "We've known each other for a while - he provided a back cover quote for Singles Club - and is a big comics fan. I'm a fan of the band as it is, (more)...

Art Brut have announced the full details of their upcoming fourth studio album Brilliant! Tragic!. Released on May 23, the follow-up to 2009's Art Brut vs Satan has again been produced by Pixies legend Black Francis. Frontman Eddie Argos said: "With the last album we met up every couple of months and wrote three or four songs. This time we got together in the second half of the year and wrote whenever we could two or three times a week. "We had more time in the studio this time too - about a week more - so Black Francis had time to teach me how to sing... I'm very proud that I sing on it. Only took four albums to (more)...