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[davemerrill]

Yes, it's a comic about the rise to stardom of Duran Duran, the most amazingly important and influential band to vanish almost completely without a trace and have almost zero lasting influence on pop music, which is saying something in a field full of bands that vanish almost completely without a trace and have almost zero lasting influence on pop music.



You can read all about them, squealing and jumping up and down all the while, today at Stupid Comics!! Da da da, da da da da da, this is Planet Earth!

Meanwhile over at Found Sound you can thrill to the theme song to "Fury", the TV show about Peter Graves and a horse and a boy, and then you can hear a song about how TV is rotting your brain. It's all at Found Sound!!

Comments

[tochiro998.livejournal.com]

OK, I need some context on that Duran Duran comic. Who published it?

Reason I ask, the art sure looks a lot like some of the British comics you've posted. Not quite Frank Bellamy but of the same school.

And say what you will, there was more story in some of those Duran Duran music vids than in some recent Hollywood films. :)

[davemerrill.livejournal.com]

The Duran Duran story is in the "Razzmatazz Annual" for 1985, published by Fleetway. Fleetway also published Buster, Eagle, Jinty, Lion, tons of other British comics. "Razzmatazz" was a music program on ITV.

I've no idea who drew the comic, it has that fakey Jesus Belasco look that so many British comics sport, adequate but nothing spectactular.

This is also where the Culture Club comic came from that we ran a while back. Sadly these two are the only comic book pop star stories in the annual.