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Songs for People No-One Else Cares About by Jim McCarthy on Spotify!
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...
SONGS FOR PEOPLE NO-ONE ELSE CARES ABOUT…
One NEW EP.. on SPOTIFY and other platforms..
CATALOGUE is growing (wings)
Currently releasing 5 x new Macasso eBooks to Amazon and other various platforms…experimental art books and collections of sketched ideas and concepts…
5 x eBooks being published July 2019
DIGITAL HEART — new art eBooks released JULY 2019..
DIGITAL HEARTS – from 5 x eBooks being published / July 2019***
SKETCH eBooks One and Two – from 5 x new art eBooks released in JULY 2019…
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...
BOB MARLEY – WAKE UP and LOVE Book- available as paper and Ebook editions..
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...
SEX PISTOLS new SPANISH Foreign RIGHTS edition
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 TROPPO
SLY STONE — FUNKY IMAGE from Michael Jackson GN>>>>
NEW*** DITKO*** Three part Graphella Triptych…Coming in 2019***
NEW*** DITKO*** Three part Graphella Triptych... Coming in 2019***
JIM McCarthy BIBLIOGRAPHY******
Up to date book and Graphic Novel list.........
JIM McCARTHY- Omnibus Catalogue 2019…Graphic Novels featured….
BAD COMPANY — VINTAGE Cover art
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...
NEW DAYS / NEW IDEAS- NEW eBooks!!!
MAKE 2019 --- a great year-- lots of things happening-- plans afootski (that's Russian...)
THE BEST OF THE BEST!!! The ultimate Bad Company Collection****
THE BEST OF THE BEST!!! The ultimate Bad Company Collection****
New working on Jesus Ebook…
Nobody Loves Jesus eBook – a society adrift?
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...
NEW set of eBooks to be published in 2019
BOB MARLEY GRAPHIC BOOK — ART Pages to be used in new DON LETTS Documentary
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 80's, 90’s and...
*** OFFICIAL / President TRUMP loves my BOB MARLEY Graphic book ***
*** OFFICIAL / President TRUMP loves my BOB MARLEY Graphic book *** Giving hin cause to roll one and have a break in the White House.
*** OFFICIAL / President PUTIN loves my BOB MARLEY Graphic book ***
Mr. Putin celebrates the success of the Bob Marley book and its foreign rights releases.
TRAPPED and working on seventh e-book under the Macasso e-imprint
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...
JIM Dalas****
Jimdala ****A portent of newness and growth
Working in/on the new***
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 images... (3) Digital Heart - the...
LENNY WIRRAL in DEPTFORD COWBOYS eBook***
JOHNNY the "JOHNNY" a character from the upcoming LENNY WIRRAL in DEPTFORD COWBOYS An eBook from Macasso Books (book Number 7)
LENNY WIRRAL in DEPTFORD COWBOYS eBook***
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...
MACASSO E-books *** 8 new e-Titles
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 - creative -...
MACASSO ebooks- imprint*** new books for 2018
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...
GRAPHIC BOOKS ***new book editions****
EPA EDITIONS France — Metallica EPA EDITIONS France - Bob Marley REDBOOK Ediciones - Italy - Metallica REDBOOK Ediciones - Italy - The Ramones REDBOOK Ediciones - Italy - Guns And Roses
NEW Foreign Rights titles in release…
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
Three new foreign rights editions-graphic books
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...
ITALIAN BD Edition in hardback
New BD Editions release of GUNS AND ROSES Reckless Life--The Graphic Novel...
GUNS and ROSES – HARDBACK BD Ediciones
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...
Spanish rights to the Ramones and Guns N Roses Graphic Novels have been sold to to Rebook Ediciones.
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.
Any proposed books? Come forth?
Any ideas you'd like to see in the Graphic novel attars. I like to get and discuss new projects with any artists ...
ITS GOD TO BE GOOD!
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....
Working on a three part E-book for self publishing****
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.
Visit my author page on Amazon….https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jim-McCarthy/e/B001IZV6BS/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1
Please visit my author page on Amazon--why doncha????? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jim-McCarthy/e/B001IZV6BS/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1
BOB MARLEY: Wake Up And Live – available now from Amazon USA
Bob Marley-- The exciting new Graphic book Available NOW as the paperback edition on the Amazon USA site.......
Bob Marley new Graphic book : WAKE UP AND LIVE – USA Kindle Edition Available now
Bob Marley new Graphic book WAKE UP AND LIVE - Kindle Edition Available now on Amazon USA site........
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wake-Up-Live-Life-Marley-ebook/dp/B06XDB97ZZ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1490356441&sr=1-1
Bob Marley-WAKE UP AND LIVE - The life................. available NOW as a downloadable Kindle E-book from the Anazon UK site..........
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wake-Up-Live-Life-Marley/dp/1783059672/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1490356441&sr=1-1
Bob Marley paperback available now on Amazon.UK site.......... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wake-Up-Live-Life-Marley/dp/1783059672/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1490356441&sr=1-1
http://www.modculture.co.uk/interview-jim-mccarthy-talks-the-living-for-kicks-and-the-keith-moon-graphic-novels/
http://www.modculture.co.uk/interview-jim-mccarthy-talks-the-living-for-kicks-and-the-keith-moon-graphic-novels/
MODS NEW BOOK-LIVING FOR KICKS Reviews…..
Nice review by Juliet Jones from POP MATTERS magazine http://www.popmatters.com/review/living-for-kicks-a-mods-graphic-novel-by-jim-mccarthy-and-kevin-cross/
LIVING FOR KICKS: A Mods Graphic Novel–Tony Fletcher REVIEW!!!!
LIVING FOR KICKS: A Mods Graphic Novel--REVIEW!!!! A nice review by Tony Fletcher through his Jamming Blog/Vlog. Links here...
WAKE UP AND LIVE : The Life Of Bob Marley
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 and his...
HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR 2017***
Happ¥ and Peaceful New Year for 2017****
Jim at the BBC
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.... at...
Living For Kicks: A Mods Graphic Novel…
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...
SPRECHEN SIE DEUTSCH???
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 fun...
Jim in 2016
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...
BAD COMPANY INTERVIEW*** Jim McCarthy for 2000AD
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 Ewins' passed...
*** Who Are You: The Life and Death of KEITH MOON*** New Graphic book!!!
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 best-selling biography Dear Boy by Tony...
BAD COMPANY: FIRST CASUALTIES*** Paperback out now….
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 Casualties, the team pay...
LIVING FOR KICKS: A Mods Graphic Novel
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 brings the...
VOICES OF LATIN ROCK: THE E-MIX *** Now published in iBooks****
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. It is...
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...
VOICES OF LATIN ROCK: THE E-MIX *** Now published USA
VOICES OF LATIN ROCK: THE E-MIX *** Now published USA Link to Amazon.com... https://www.amazon.com/Voices-Latin-Rock-Mix-McCarthy-ebook/dp/B01FOHLXGS?ie=UTF8&ref_=asap_bc Carlos Santana, Latin rock, San Francisco, Soul, Mission District, Funk, Electric guitar...
VOICES OF LATIN ROCK: THE E-MIX *** Now published
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 and features...
WHO ARE YOU? The Keith Moon Graphic book****
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: A MODS GRAPHIC NOVEL***
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...
6 x GRAPHIC TITLES SOLD AS FOREIGN RIGHTS EDITONS // ARGENTINA***
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...
Graphic novel — graphics spread****
A visual spread of recent and upcoming graphic books Presented here by moi - happy days!!
GUNS AND ROSES – NEW ITALIAN EDITION***
Reckless Lives has now received a Foreigh Rights Edition publication from Edizioni BD in Italy....
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 NEW PAPERBACK SOON!
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...
BOB MARLEY GRAPHIC BOOK OUT IN AUTUMN
Bob Marley Graphic book written by moi and featuring great art by Benito Gallegos is published this autumn thru Omnibus Press
..He’s a gas…
He's a gas and he'll gas all over you?...
2016 comes forth
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...
GUNS AND ROSES REFORM??
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 edition...
HAPPY NEW YEAR AND XMAS TIME****
HAPPY NEW YEAR AND XMAS TIME**** wishing all very Happy holidays...
Guns And Roses Graphic review***
Review of Guns And Roses GN with a recent USA publication thru Overlook Press.
Jamie Hewlett: The Suggestionists at Saatchi Gallery
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...
iPhone artworks
Jim iPhone art works I love to make different much looser images thru iPad and iPhone..
Android Hell cometh
Android Hell cometh and so do another Christmas Lets hope its a good one...
Poor Angry White Kids…October 23, 2015
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 Pays Tribute To Brett Ewins In His Return To 2000AD With Bad Company
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...
Jim McCarthy & Marc Olivent: Reckless Life: Guns N’ Roses – book review
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...
VOICES OF LATIN ROCK: The E-Mix
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...
BAD COMPANY: FIRST CASUALTIES Episode three
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 now!!
BAD COMPANY REVIEW ( PROG 1951)
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 COVER
Bad Company second issue with Rufus Dayglo cover; part two of the 12 part series out now....;
Bad Company Review…
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...
BAD COMPANY: First Casualties…
Bad Company; First Casualties, a new 12 part Bad Co from Pete Milligan, Rufus Dayglo and me.... Out in issue 1950 of 2000AD
BAD COMPANY: NEW RUN IN 2000AD
Bad Company begins a long awaited and fresh run in 2000AD From issue 1950 September 30th issue
LIVING FOR KICKS: The MODS Graphic BOOK
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...
WHO ARE YOU?: The KEITH MOON Graphic BOOK
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 book.
RECKLESS LIFE : PUBLISHED IN THE USA
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 G&R...
RECKLESS LIFE: GUNS AND ROSES New Graphic book published now!
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...
BAD COMPANY on the way from 2000AD
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.
KEITH MOON coming in 2016
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...
BOB MARLEY coming in 2016
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...
Brett Ewins RIP
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...
New York Times on The Ramones Graphic Gabba Gabba Hey
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
I Want Your Job
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
Reckless Lives: Guns And Roses Graphic book
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
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...
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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/
Jim McCarthy talks to Alex Fitch Part 3
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...
Jim McCarthy talks to Alex Fitch Part 2
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...
Jim McCarthy talks to Alex Fitch at Cartoon County Part 1
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 about the...
Jim McCarthy and Jah Wobble interviewed for the Independent
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...
Jim McCarthy talks about ‘Tupac Shakur: Death Rap’
Jim McCarthy discusses The Ramones graphic novel ‘GABBA GABBA HEY!’
Jim McCarthy talks about ‘Metallica: NOTHING ELSE MATTERS’
Metallica: Nothing Else Matters
Jim McCarthy discusses Michael Jackson graphic novel ‘NEVERLAND’
Jim McCarthy discusses the Eminem graphic novel ‘IN MY SKIN’
Jim McCarthy talks about ‘Kurt Cobain: GODSPEED’
Jim McCarthy gets graphic on his Sex Pistols Graphic novel
Bix Barton: 2000AD Days
Myself as artist and writer Peter Milligan back in 1989 in Hastings where I then lived. We did a 2 page double page publicity spread feature on our comic strip Bix Barton ( which was published in best selling UK comics weekly 2000AD) for the Hastings paper. Back then...
Metallica Graphic Bio/Book
I have completed the writing of the upcoming Metallica Graphic bio. At present we are titling it Nothing Else Matters. This book is presented in the B&W trade paperback format. Around 176 pages with script and artwork at 144 pages with gallery and scrapbook bios...
Jim McCarthy featured in New York Times Full page article
I had a wonderful piece placed in the New York Times on Sunday 11th August 2013. This examined my latest Graphic Novel with a determined New York city theme, Gabba Gabba Hey: The Graphic Story Of The Ramones. I was interviewed by David Peisner and did a great...
Helen Donlon Interviews Jim McCarthy for Omnibus Press
Jim, your name has become synonymous with two musical areas in recent years, namely your ongoing work in the Latin Rock arena and your work on what has become a series of graphic biographies based around the lives of musicians. Let's start with the second area. What...