JitB  page 029 Oh so pretty

Where to begin here. Its kind of impossible for me to imagine a world in which I DIDN’T see The Filth and the Fury at just the right time in my life. Let’s watch shall we.

The style, the message, the energy. All of these hit me like a freight train in my early 20s. The Sex Pistols music itself, I enjoy it in fits and spurts. But the whole punk rock mindset. The “us vs. them” mentality, the “we are going to make our own world and fuck what’s been offered to us”. This is exactly what I needed as an angry young man. And as an artist, the way in which this whole documentary is cobbled together from scraps and ephemera. After seeing this documentary I knew what I had to do with my life.


So with all this talk of documentaries and using the documentary structure in this comic, I felt it was time to show you how well versed I am in that structure. In other words, I have edited a lot of documentaries. Sadly they have almost all stalled out at the end, which always leaves me feeling unfulfilled if not unpaid.

But for your viewing pleasure today is a shortened version of the documentary / tour diary I am working on with NYC Bike-Core punk band Team Spider.

I am pretty proud of the high energy, whip pan style I have going with this documentary. But I have watched this footage so many hundreds of times, that it’s hard to tell if it works anymore.