Great Pop Things

"A comic-book collection that brilliantly depicts the story of rock & roll"--that's how Rolling Stone summed up "Great Pop Things." Colin Morton and Chuck Death's comic strips, serialized over several years in LA Weekly, offer a heartfelt and devastatingly funny history of rock. Like Monty Python, their version is surreal and ridiculous--yet somehow it all rings true. As they pinpoint the absurdities and oddities of rock history, the authors come closer to its truth than most conventional accounts--and they're way more entertaining. The caricatures--of rock figures from Mick Jagger to Captain Beefheart, Johnny Rotten to Courtney Love--are priceless. "Chuck Death" is a pseudonym of musician/artist Jon Langford ("Nashville Radio").