Mark Beyer

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This guy is great. I've read a few of his comics both online and in that old "Read Yourself Raw" book from many years back. He may be no Brian Bolland but his stuff appeals to me on a level that your normal super-rendered comic books can't even begin to dream of achieving.

What do the ILX comic fans think of him?

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Friday, 17 October 2003 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I read Agony years ago and really liked it and haven't been able to find anything of his since

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Friday, 17 October 2003 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

was "agony" that thing that used to be in the NME in the early 80s? that was choice. i haven't really seen much by him apart from that either tho.

― duane, Saturday, 18 October 2003 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i dunno, am i even thinking of the right guy?

― duane, Saturday, 18 October 2003 08:29 (twenty-two years ago)

According to the above site he did do a strip for NME in 1983 called "We Are Depressed".

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Saturday, 18 October 2003 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah that is the thing i remember, it was great!

― duane, Saturday, 18 October 2003 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Agony is a great masterpiece, and I love his work generally.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 18 October 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Adventures of Thomas And Nardo!

LA Weekly!

Coldcut "What's That Noise?!"!

love the guy's work.

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 18 October 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The cover to 'Spy Vs Spy' by John Zorn!

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Saturday, 18 October 2003 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Zorn didn't think of calling Prohas then?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 18 October 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i really, really dislike mark beyer. he creeps me out.

― mohammed abba (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 18 October 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

aesthetically. i've never met him.

― mohammed abba (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 18 October 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

and even then it's purely for the art.

― mohammed abba (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 18 October 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Ten years ago, New York Press used to run an "Amy & Jordan" cartoon weekly. I thought they were absolutely brilliant, esp. the one where Jordan goes to mail the rent check but a hand reaches out of the mailbox and grabs it, and it turns out there's a homeless guy inside the mailbox burning the mail to stay warm ("I"d better let him have it--he needs it more!").

― Douglas (Douglas), Saturday, 18 October 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

i think my main mark beyer experience was tainted by seeing "Thomas and Nardo", the animated cartoon moreso than the rest. The Viewmaster style of those cartoons kinda make me feel woozy. (not the mention the gentle Residents soundtrack)

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 18 October 2003 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

seven years pass...

Just got "Amy + Jordan" in the mail as per Abbott's recommendation (I'd seen/loved all of the "Adventures of Thomas and Nardo" bits but didn't realize the guy made comix too). I'm, like, 4 pages in and am completely in love with it. <3 <3 <3

― her hipster hair dude is making me pale ale (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 23 January 2011 15:25 (fifteen years ago)

Like, I can't even tell you guys how amazing this guy's work is so let me show you some examples instead

http://lambiek.net/artists/b/beyer/beyer_mark_top_a.jpg http://lambiek.net/artists/b/beyer/beyer_mark_top_b.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw-rh-jbfEg

http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/markbeyer2.jpg

http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/markbeyer1.jpg

― her hipster hair dude is making me pale ale (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 23 January 2011 23:55 (fifteen years ago)

A JOLLY MEMORY FROM 2009:

I found five copies of AMY AND JORDAN for two bucks each at a local bookstore. As you might imagine, yoink, because wouldn't you?

A week or so later, my pal Natasha had decided to distribute her zine (Yup, her zine - as in print and surreptitious use of other people's printers, cuz she's HARDCORE) at a local club, the Limelight, which was having some Artslam thing going on that night. She shanghaied me along, nominally because I'd contributed to the thing, but mainly for the purpose of being able to distribute the damn thing further than she could by her lonesome. Seeing an opportunity, I bring along the AMY AND JORDAN cache and distribute it far and wide, like a Johnny Appleseed of art or something.

So if you were in San Antonio at the Limelight a year-and-a-half ago and had some kinda drunk guy try to charm you into picking up a zine and an awesome looking hardcover collection of comic strips, that was me.

― I can't wait to understand these arguments! (R Baez), Monday, 24 January 2011 00:13 (fifteen years ago)

Like, if someone approached me at a club and tried to sell me Mark Beyer comics, I think I would buy them like five thousand gin and tonics and make them be my best friend.

― her hipster hair dude is making me pale ale (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 24 January 2011 00:18 (fifteen years ago)

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1135.snc4/149740_1716824559986_1219396669_1892020_721361_n.jpg

― her hipster hair dude is making me pale ale (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 24 January 2011 00:18 (fifteen years ago)

Love the pics.

Didn't sell them - just gave them away.

― I can't wait to understand these arguments! (R Baez), Monday, 24 January 2011 00:19 (fifteen years ago)

make that eight thousand

― her hipster hair dude is making me pale ale (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 24 January 2011 00:28 (fifteen years ago)

I'm relatively new to alcohol - that was the first (and, thus far, only) night I ever vomited from getting drunk. I wouldn't have survived the night.

― I can't wait to understand these arguments! (R Baez), Monday, 24 January 2011 00:38 (fifteen years ago)

there are two Amy & Jordan collections FYI, a fat Pantheon one and an older German one where the binding isn't attached to the spine, so it opens out wide

― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Monday, 24 January 2011 01:14 (fifteen years ago)

it's funny you say that, bcz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGOb6IpYsNw

― vienn?tta (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 24 January 2011 01:16 (fifteen years ago)

Plz tell me more abt the fat Pantheon one and why did I just buy this stupid one with no real spine??

― vienn?tta (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 24 January 2011 01:17 (fifteen years ago)

Wait mine says Pantheon apparently! So the other one has a fucked up spine too?

― vienn?tta (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 24 January 2011 01:18 (fifteen years ago)

ah yeah, confused posting, meant to say the Maroverlag one initiated that weird binding that was carried through - never seen it on any other book so it was odd to see the later edition copying it!

have never read the new one though, not least because it seems so unwieldy. who reads books sitting at a table, looking down flat?

― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Monday, 24 January 2011 03:49 (fifteen years ago)

I have both versions! My God, I love Amy and Jordan.

For some reason I feel like people who like Amy and Jordan would like FLAN, the novel by Stephen Tunney of King Missile.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 24 January 2011 05:39 (fifteen years ago)

Wait tell me more abt the two editions!! Can you show us photos?

Also, is there any overlap btwn any of his books? What do I get next, "Agony"? "Dead Cities"?

― vienn?tta (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 24 January 2011 05:40 (fifteen years ago)

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