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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...

EPA EDITIONS France — Metallica EPA EDITIONS France - Bob Marley REDBOOK Ediciones - Italy - Metallica REDBOOK Ediciones - Italy - The Ramones REDBOOK Ediciones - Italy - Guns And Roses

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 Roses 

  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...

New BD Editions release of GUNS AND ROSES Reckless Life--The Graphic Novel...

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....

              Bob Marley Graphic book written by moi and featuring great art by Benito Gallegos is published this autumn thru Omnibus Press

            Review of Guns And Roses GN with a recent USA publication thru Overlook Press.

              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...

                            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 frack me, the...

                          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...

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 expensive...

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 569...

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 nice full-page piece in the New York Times in which I discuss The Ramones Graphic book.  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/11/arts/music/part-ramones-biography-part-dreamscape.html?pagewanted=all&_r=2

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...

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...

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 McCarthy...

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 McCarthy...