Pekar, H. (w) and Crumb, R. (a). Fragment from 'How I Quit Collecting Records and Put Out a Comic Book With the Money I Saved'. Originally published in American Splendor #4, 1976 (2004) © Harvey Pekar LLC.  

Pekar, H. (w) and Crumb, R. (a). Fragment from 'How I Quit Collecting Records and Put Out a Comic Book With the Money I Saved'. Originally published in American Splendor #4, 1976 (2004) © Harvey Pekar LLC.  

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The call for papers Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics was published on 30 July 2015. In it, the editors made a public invitation for scholarship that proposed meeting points between the disciplines of jazz studies and comics studies. This editorial discusses the motivations for the collection, the editorial methodology, and the resea...

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... and Vince Guaraldi have each stated the influence of comic books on their musi- cal development, while artists and writers have frequently turned to jazz for inspiration (e.g. see Blutch 2013or Pekar 2004: 19-20 and 2005; Figure 1). Jazz musicians have been the subjects of comic strips, graphic novels and graphic biographies (e.g. ...