BOB MARLEY – WAKE UP and LOVE Book- available as paper and Ebook editions.. Explore the world of the greatest ever reggae ambassador and an iconic world music hero… From AMAZON USA link from AMAZON...
SEX PISTOLS new SPANISH Foreign rights Edition…Foreign RIGHTS edition Great to get / have the seventh foreign rights edition in two years… They are mounting up… The SEX PISTOLS – Manga sized edition….MA non...
BAD COMPANY — VINTAGE Cover art I love this Bad Comapny cover and ALL it represents.. A great time and era and the BEST strip. Now being collected in some cool Rebellion tomes…
I am fascinated by the emergence of the Chrisitain faith in places like China, Korea etc and in the collpase in Europe and the UK. I believe much evident cultural, political and spiritual chaos, is already resulting over this collapse and will get much, much worse! I...
Both Benito Gallegos and I are proud to be included in the upcoming DON Letts documentary filmed biography. Don Letts’ reputation has been firmly established in both the film and music world by a substantial body of work from the late 70’s through the...
TRAPPED in East Sussex and working on my seventh e-book under the Macasso e-imprint A great year of industrious toil on a set of more experimental ebooks. The list of possible gets longer too as more ideas/concepts arise…
2018 is the year I went back to ART College to do my own stuff. This is my roster and I hope to finish by end of the year – all going well! (1) iPhone Images 1 – themed and random images… (2) iPhone Images 2 – more themed and random...
Lewnny Wirral is a snitch and a lowlife But give him a break. He has a gang to organise of blaggers to rob a moody boat on the River Thames. Set in early 1960s Deptford, in inner Londob Lenny comes up...
2018 is becoming a very creative year for me I have complted 5 x eBooks for e-publication and am working on a further three book up till the year end. 8 in all. I am shopping a book for a great Afri-Amercican singer who has a great story to tell. Busy –...
I have a new MACASSO e-book imprint. This was launched last year with the FIRST release… Voices Of Latin Rock – The E-Mix with 7 new ebooks to follow in 2018…
O joy to moi…. EPA EDITIONS France — Metallica EPA EDITIONS France – Bob Marley REDBOOK Ediciones – Italy – Metallica REDBOOK Ediciones – Italy – The Ramones REDBOOK Ediciones – Italy – Guns And...
REDBOOK Ediciones / Barcelona Spain 2018 / SPANISH EDITION of THE RAMONES just published… EPA Editions. France 2018 / FRENCH EDITION of BOB MARLEY GN just published REDBOOK Ediciones / Barcelona Spain 2018 / SPANISH EDITION of METALLICAa altready published REDBOOK...
The Spanish rights on both the Ramones and Guns N Roses Graphic Novels have been sold to to Rebook Ediciones. The publishers are aiming to publish Gabba Gabba Hey! in January 2018 and Reckless Life in May 2018.
Working on a three part E-book for self publishing**** Currently scripting three parter for self publishing. Thru the usual e-oulets –More news when readying to out Part One under my own e-imprint — MACASSO books.
LIVING FOR KICKS: A Mods Graphic Novel–REVIEW!!!! A nice review by Tony Fletcher through his Jamming Blog/Vlog. Links here Book Review: LIVING FOR KICKS by Jim McCarthy and Kevin...
Hot off the presses — Omnibus Press in fact. A new full-colour Bob Marley biography with fabulous art by the talented Benito Gallegos…. a cool 160 page treat in tropical colour. An authentic look at his life...
Done a range of BBC Radio interviews recently talking mostly on the Keith Moon GN book. The last one was an interesting interview on BBC World News with Lucy Hocking with some nice graphics and clips throughout…....
Funky little slide show showing on the Living For Kicks GN at the Jocks and nerds culture site; check it out peeps!! https://www.jocksandnerds.com/articles/living-for-kicks-a-mods-graphic-novel#slide-1...
http://www.slam-zine.de/php/interview_jim_mccarthy,20653,41168.html I did a new interview for Slam online magazine and you can test your translation skills with it, as it in the German language…Have...
2016 is an exciting year for Jim with Living For Kicks – A Mod’s Graphic novel, his first original stand-alone graphic book for Omnibus Press. Further book’s in the pipeline for a 2016 release are a 2000AD trade paperback Bad Company: First Casualties and Who...
Matt Badham Bad Company Interview 14th August 2015 Why is the time right for a return to Bad Company? Time heals all wounds but not the wounds of Bad Company. There’s been a change in the line-up creatively after, sadly, Brett...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Who-are-You-Death-Graphic/dp/1783058889/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1472235953&sr=1-1&keywords=jim+mccarthy”> Who Are You: The Life and Death of KEITH MOON By Jim McCarthy & Marc Olivent Based on the...
Bad Company: First Casualties Trade Paperback The boys are back and they’re in Bad Company… Peter Milligan, Rufus Dayglo, Jim McCarthy return to Ararat with one of 2000 AD’s most popular series – Bad Company. In Bad Company: First...
LIVING FOR KICKS: A Mods Graphic Novel Is out and available from iTunes, Amazon.Com and Amazon.co.uk and as Kindle editions also…. Living for Kicks: A Mods Graphic Novel Jim McCarthy & Kevin Cross Living for Kicks is an electrifying graphic novel that...
VOICES OF LATIN ROCK: THE E-MIX *** Now published in iBooks / Apple Link to iBooks… https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/voices-of-latin-rock/id1114663248?ls=1&mt=11 Voices Of Latin Rock: The E-Mix is an exciting, in-depth look at the Latin Rock world....
VOICES OF LATIN ROCK: THE E-MIX *** Now published UK Link to Amazon.co.uk… https://www.amazon.co.uk/Voices-Latin-Rock-Jim-McCarthy-ebook/dp/B01FOHLXGS/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1463319547&sr=1-1&keywords=voices+of+latin+rock...
VOICES OF LATIN ROCK: THE E-MIX *** Now published USA Link to Amazon.com… Carlos Santana, Latin rock, San Francisco, Soul, Mission District, Funk, Electric guitar Voices Of Latin Rock: The E-Mix is an exciting, in-depth look at the Latin Rock world. It is packed...
VOICES OF LATIN ROCK: THE E-MIX Published by Macasso Books Now published on Amazon UK and USA thru Kindle. Plus on Apple iBooks……….. Voices Of Latin Rock: The E-Mix is an exciting, in-depth look at the Latin Rock world. It is packed with interviews...
Who Are You: The Life of KEITH MOON Graphic Novel By Jim McCarthy & Marc Olivent Based on the best-selling biography Dear Boy by Tony Fletcher, Who Are You brings to the page Keith Moon’s incredible life and premature death in a dramatic graphic reconstruction by...
Living for Kicks is Omnibus’s first fictional graphic novel, the tale of young Mod Spike Spellane and his attempts to hustle enough money in sleazy 1960s Soho to start a record label. Combining early Sixties Mod culture, Soho jazz dives, the Keeler affair and...
Six of the titles in my graphic book series have now been licensed to a specialist publishing company in Argentina, where they will be published in Spanish language editions. All six feature written narratives by Jim although different graphic artists have been...
BAD COMPANY – FIRST CASUALTIES will be out as a trade paperback from 2000ad in June, with 20 pages of extra thrill power, pin ups, Cover designs, sketches, and a remastered Prequel that Brett Ewins and Rufus Dayglo...
BAD COMPANY – FIRST CASUALTIES will be out as a trade paperback from 2000ad in June, with 20 pages of extra thrill power, pin ups, Cover designs, sketches, and a remastered Prequel that Brett Ewins and Rufus...
2016 is a busy year for me Three Graphic books are to be published as well as at least two Ebook self publications. April see the release of Living For Kicks: A Mods Graphic Novel May sees the release of Who Are You? The Life Of...
The Guns And Roses book is published also in the USA in distribution deal with Overlook Press; New York. Also available from all good good online and “real” bookshops. Through Amazon UK and USA. Plus Kindle ebook edition and iTunes...
Jamie Hewlett: The Suggestionists at Saatchi Gallery Went to private view in London of Jamie;s show. I particularly like the “Pines” section of the works. Great to divide show into three...
Poor Angry White Kids October 23, 2015 Thank you Pat Mills for notification of what looks to be a fantastic panel discussion on the social backdrop into which the likes of Action and 2000AD were published in the 1970s and...
Peter Milligan is returning after thirteen year to the sci-fi weekly comic 2000AD to revive his co-creation Bad Company, the series he created thirty years ago with Brett Ewins and JimMcCarthy in 1986, hoping it will be...
Written by Jamie Havlin 1 September, 2015 Reckless Life: Guns N’ Roses (Omnibus Press) Paperback Out Now Jamie Havlin reviews a graphic novel that traces the history of a band synonymous with rock and roll excess...
My new E-book is in the works. A series of in-depth interviews with Latin soul musicians mostly based in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Concentrating on the years 1968 thru to 1977 or so. A time of unparalleled...
2000 A.D. Prog 1951 by Ian Jane Bad Company – First Casualties by Peter Milligan, R. Dayglo and J. McCarthy: Last but most certainly not least, Danny finds out that...
Bad Company Review……….. This was pretty much the main reason I picked up the Prog, thanks to Rufus on social media, and the fact that Peter Milligan was on writing duties, and...
Living For Kicks has a publication date of April 2016. Im looking 4ward to this one. A great thrilling story of the mod scene set between late 1962 and the autumn of later...
Reckless Lifes: Guns and Roses has been been published by Overlook Press in New York. It is available as iTunes and Kindle Editions. Plus it is buyable at Amazon.Com and at Overlook Press, Indie Bound and Barnes And Noble. All links are on the site’s dedicated...
From the writer of Gabba Gabba Hey! The Graphic Story of The Ramones and Metallica: Nothing Else Matters comes an explosive new graphic novel about The Most Dangerous Band in the World, Guns N’ Roses. Having sold over 100 million albums, recorded the most...
A new Bad Company called First Casualties a 12 parter for 2000AD is starting in the end of September It is written by old com-padre and comics stalwart Peter Milligan and has great art by Rufus Dayglo and inks by me.
WHO ARE YOU? The Life and Death Of Keith Moon. Jim McCarthy/March 2015 I am re-reading Tony Fletcher’s Dear Boy book, which I originally read about ten or so years ago, when I began writing for Omnibus. I am enjoying it (again) so far. Tony’s book is a...
Wake Up And Live!! The Trenchtown Graphic If life were a thing that only money could buy, the poor would surely die… Bob “Tuff Gong” Marley has transcended even his undoubted achievement as the world’s first and only reggae superstar. He is seen as a saint or deity in...
An old friend and comics compadre Brett died suddenly on the 16th February 2015. He was 59 years old and he had not enjoyed the best of health for quite a few years. I grew up in Hanwell with Brett, we lived a few stones throws apart and we also worked on quite a few...
A piece for The Independent published awhile back on the comics business and the mechanics of being a conic artist by yours truly. http://www.independent.co.uk/student/career-planning/getting-job/i-want-your-job-comic-book-artist-840180.html...
Guns And Roses, more punk than punk, this band captivated the US rock and roll world with their raw sound and their visceral debut album Appetite For Destruction, which took all before it. Played out against the dysfunctional and abusive background in Lafayette,...
Mods is an upcoming stand alone graphic book which explores the exciting world of the emergent Mod culture. Spike Spellane, Danny Healy, Karl Yelland with Paulette Harrison, and Leslie Milligan all are thrown into a world that they can neither comprehend or are ready...
This day in music features Omnibus Press interview on Kurt Cobain graphic book. http://www.muzu.tv/this-day-in-music/omnibus-press-jimkurtcobain-music-video/2351227/
listen to ‘Alex Fitch talks to Jim McCarthy – part 3’ on audioBoom Alex Fitch talks to Jim McCarthy about writing graphic novel music biographies of musicians and groups such as Kurt Cobain, Michael Jackson, The Ramones and Metallica. Fitch and...
listen to ‘Alex Fitch talks to Jim McCarthy – part 2’ on audioBoom Alex Fitch talks to Jim McCarthy about writing graphic novel music biographies of musicians and groups such as Kurt Cobain, Michael Jackson, The Ramones and Metallica. Fitch and...
listen to ‘Alex Fitch talks to Jim McCarthy – part 1’ on audioBoom Alex Fitch talks to Jim McCarthy about writing graphic novel music biographies of musicians and groups such as Kurt Cobain, Michael Jackson, The Ramones and Metallica. Fitch and McCarthy talk...
The Independent interviewed Jim and Jah in July 2008. McCarthy almost joined Wobble’s band Public Image Ltd when young, but instead they ended up meeting at a self help group in the 1980’s under very different circumstances. Becoming friends Jah Wobble ended up being...
