by Pebble | Aug 17, 2019 | News
Songs for People No-One Else Cares About by Jim McCarthy https://open.spotify.com/album/5D4NXJFcXYi7OoTZRKfvvR?si=E0tRwm5XQKa1GubXmYKeVQ#NowPlayingFresh new music from JIM McCARTHY – Available on SPOTIFY and other platforms.Songs for People was created in...
by Pebble | Aug 17, 2019 | News
One NEW EP.. on SPOTIFY and other...
by Pebble | Jul 31, 2019 | Books, Lifestyle & Interviews, News, UK Press
Currently releasing 5 x new Macasso eBooks to Amazon and other various platforms…experimental art books and collections of sketched ideas and...
by Pebble | Jul 31, 2019 | Books, Graphic Novel, Lifestyle & Interviews, News, Thoughts, UK Press
by Pebble | Jul 31, 2019 | Books, Graphic Novel, Lifestyle & Interviews, News, Thoughts, UK Press
DIGITAL HEARTS – from 5 x eBooks being published / July...
by Pebble | Jul 31, 2019 | Books, Graphic Novel, Lifestyle & Interviews, News, Thoughts
Making marks on paper is a glorious freedom. A opportunity to invent an image that could even startle one’s own self.Imagine surprising yourself, you are starting out with nothing – just a blank piece of paper. What a blank slate that is? And an image will present...
by Pebble | May 17, 2019 | News
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...
by Pebble | May 17, 2019 | News
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...
by Pebble | May 1, 2019 | News
by Pebble | May 1, 2019 | News
NEW*** DITKO*** Three part Graphella Triptych… Coming in 2019***
by Pebble | May 1, 2019 | News
Up to date book and Graphic Novel list………
by Pebble | May 1, 2019 | Graphic Novel, International News, Lifestyle & Interviews, Magazines & Supplements
by Pebble | May 1, 2019 | News
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…
by Pebble | May 1, 2019 | News
MAKE 2019 — a great year– lots of things happening– plans afootski (that’s Russian…)
by Pebble | May 1, 2019 | News
THE BEST OF THE BEST!!! The ultimate Bad Company Collection****
by Pebble | Apr 18, 2019 | News
by Pebble | Apr 18, 2019 | Books, Graphic Novel, International News, Lifestyle & Interviews, News, Thoughts, UK Press
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...
by Pebble | Apr 18, 2019 | Books, Graphic Novel
by Pebble | Jan 24, 2019 | Graphic Novel, International News, Lifestyle & Interviews, Magazines & Supplements, News
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...
by Pebble | Oct 25, 2018 | Graphic Novel, International News
*** OFFICIAL / President TRUMP loves my BOB MARLEY Graphic book *** Giving hin cause to roll one and have a break in the White House.
by Pebble | Oct 25, 2018 | News
Mr. Putin celebrates the success of the Bob Marley book and its foreign rights releases.
by Pebble | Oct 25, 2018 | News
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…
by Pebble | Aug 4, 2018 | News
Jimdala ****A portent of newness and growth
by Pebble | Aug 4, 2018 | News
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...
by Pebble | Jun 22, 2018 | Books, Graphic Novel, Thoughts
JOHNNY the “JOHNNY” a character from the upcoming LENNY WIRRAL in DEPTFORD COWBOYS An eBook from Macasso Books (book Number 7)
by Pebble | Jun 22, 2018 | News
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...
by Pebble | Jun 22, 2018 | Books, Graphic Novel, International News, Lifestyle & Interviews, News, Thoughts
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 –...
by Pebble | Apr 23, 2018 | News
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…
by Pebble | Apr 23, 2018 | News
EPA EDITIONS France — Metallica EPA EDITIONS France – Bob Marley REDBOOK Ediciones – Italy – Metallica REDBOOK Ediciones – Italy – The Ramones REDBOOK Ediciones – Italy – Guns And Roses
by Pebble | Apr 23, 2018 | News
EPA EDITIONS France — Metallica EPA EDITIONS France – Bob Marley REDBOOK Ediciones – Italy – Metallica REDBOOK Ediciones – Italy – The Ramones REDBOOK Ediciones – Italy – Guns And...
by Pebble | Apr 23, 2018 | News
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...
by Pebble | Apr 23, 2018 | News
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...
by Pebble | Apr 23, 2018 | News
New BD Editions release of GUNS AND ROSES Reckless Life–The Graphic Novel…
by Pebble | Apr 23, 2018 | News
Lovely hardback book edition released in Italy… Release of the GUNS and ROSES graphic book Written by moi with mucho tasty illos by Marc Olivent…...
by Pebble | Oct 5, 2017 | News
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.
by Pebble | Sep 11, 2017 | News
Any ideas you’d like to see in the Graphic novel attars. I like to get and discuss new projects with any artists …
by Pebble | Sep 11, 2017 | News
Working on a three part E-book for self publishing**** Almost finished Part 2 of 3 Graphically charged issues With lots of visuals from me….
by Pebble | Sep 11, 2017 | News
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.
by Pebble | Apr 1, 2017 | News
Please visit my author page on Amazon–why doncha????? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jim-McCarthy/e/B001IZV6BS/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1
by Pebble | Apr 1, 2017 | News
Bob Marley– The exciting new Graphic book Available NOW as the paperback edition on the Amazon USA site…....
by Pebble | Apr 1, 2017 | News
Bob Marley new Graphic book WAKE UP AND LIVE – Kindle Edition Available now on Amazon USA site….....
by Pebble | Apr 1, 2017 | News
Bob Marley-WAKE UP AND LIVE – The life…………….. available NOW as a downloadable Kindle E-book from the Anazon UK site……....
by Pebble | Apr 1, 2017 | News
Bob Marley paperback available now on Amazon.UK site………....
by Pebble | Apr 1, 2017 | News
Interview: Jim McCarthy talks the Living For Kicks and the Keith Moon graphic...
by Pebble | Apr 1, 2017 | News
Nice review by Juliet Jones from POP MATTERS magazine...
by Pebble | Apr 1, 2017 | News
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...
by Pebble | Apr 1, 2017 | News
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...
by Pebble | Dec 31, 2016 | News
Happ¥ and Peaceful New Year for 2017****
by Pebble | Nov 2, 2016 | News
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…....
by Pebble | Nov 2, 2016 | News
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...
by Pebble | Nov 2, 2016 | News
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...
by Pebble | Aug 26, 2016 | News
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...
by Pebble | Aug 26, 2016 | News
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...
by Pebble | Aug 26, 2016 | News
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...
by Pebble | Aug 26, 2016 | News
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...
by Pebble | Aug 26, 2016 | News
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...
by Pebble | Jun 1, 2016 | News
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....
by Pebble | Jun 1, 2016 | News
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...
by Pebble | Jun 1, 2016 | News
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...
by Pebble | Jun 1, 2016 | News
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...
by Pebble | May 11, 2016 | News
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...
by Pebble | May 11, 2016 | News
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... by Pebble | May 11, 2016 | News
by Pebble | May 11, 2016 | News
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...
by Pebble | May 11, 2016 | News
A visual spread of recent and upcoming graphic books Presented here by moi – happy days!!
by Pebble | May 11, 2016 | News
Reckless Lives has now received a Foreigh Rights Edition publication from Edizioni BD in Italy….
by Pebble | Mar 8, 2016 | Books, Foreign Language Press, Graphic Novel, International News, Lifestyle & Interviews, Magazines & Supplements, News, Thoughts
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...
by Pebble | Mar 8, 2016 | Books, Foreign Language Press, Graphic Novel, International News, Lifestyle & Interviews, Magazines & Supplements, News, Thoughts
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...
by Pebble | Mar 8, 2016 | News
Bob Marley Graphic book written by moi and featuring great art by Benito Gallegos is published this autumn thru Omnibus Press
by Pebble | Feb 25, 2016 | Books, Foreign Language Press, Graphic Novel, International News, Lifestyle & Interviews, Magazines & Supplements, News, Thoughts, UK Press, Video
He’s a gas and he’ll gas all over you?…
by Pebble | Feb 25, 2016 | Books, Foreign Language Press, Graphic Novel, International News, Lifestyle & Interviews, Magazines & Supplements, News, Thoughts, UK Press, Video
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...
by Pebble | Feb 25, 2016 | Books, Foreign Language Press, Graphic Novel, International News, Lifestyle & Interviews, Magazines & Supplements, News, Thoughts, UK Press, Video
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...
by Pebble | Dec 29, 2015 | News
HAPPY NEW YEAR AND XMAS TIME**** wishing all very Happy holidays…
by Pebble | Dec 1, 2015 | News
Review of Guns And Roses GN with a recent USA publication thru Overlook Press.
by Pebble | Dec 1, 2015 | News
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...
by Pebble | Dec 1, 2015 | News
Jim iPhone art works I love to make different much looser images thru iPad and iPhone..
by Pebble | Dec 1, 2015 | Books, Foreign Language Press, Graphic Novel, International News, Lifestyle & Interviews, Magazines & Supplements, News, Thoughts, UK Press, Video
Android Hell cometh and so do another Christmas Lets hope its a good one…
by Pebble | Dec 1, 2015 | News
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...
by Pebble | Oct 22, 2015 | News
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...
by Pebble | Oct 20, 2015 | News
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...
by Pebble | Oct 16, 2015 | Graphic Novel, News
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...
by Pebble | Oct 12, 2015 | News
BAD COMPANY: FIRST CASUALTIES Episode three A splash page that reminds me a lot of Brett Ewins sense of design and layout. A nice page…out...
by Pebble | Oct 7, 2015 | News
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...
by Pebble | Oct 4, 2015 | News
Bad Company second issue with Rufus Dayglo cover; part two of the 12 part series out now….;
by Pebble | Oct 2, 2015 | News
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...
by Pebble | Sep 28, 2015 | News
Bad Company; First Casualties, a new 12 part Bad Co from Pete Milligan, Rufus Dayglo and me…. Out in issue 1950 of...
by Pebble | Sep 28, 2015 | News
Bad Company begins a long awaited and fresh run in 2000AD From issue 1950 September 30th issue
by Pebble | Sep 24, 2015 | News
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...
by Pebble | Sep 24, 2015 | Graphic Novel
Who Are You? The Keith Moon Graphic book continues apace with great new artwork by Marc Olivent. we are going for a muted colour palette on this...
by Pebble | Sep 24, 2015 | Graphic Novel
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...
by Pebble | Aug 18, 2015 | News
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...
by Pebble | Aug 10, 2015 | News
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.
by Pebble | Mar 6, 2015 | News
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...
by Pebble | Mar 6, 2015 | News
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...
by Pebble | Mar 3, 2015 | News
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...
by Pebble | Mar 3, 2015 | News
A nice full-page piece in the New York Times in which I discuss The Ramones Graphic...
by Pebble | Mar 3, 2015 | News
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...
by Pebble | Mar 3, 2015 | News
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,...
by Pebble | Mar 3, 2015 | News
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...
by Pebble | Mar 3, 2015 | News
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/