Lollipop Magazine

If You Liked School, You’ll Love Work – Review

February 1, 2008

A collection of five short stories. Find it in hip record stores that have a small fiction section with Bukowski, Kerouac, Burroughs, Palahniuk, and Rollins.

Genesis – Behind The Lines 1967-2007 – Review

February 1, 2008

This book isn’t for fans, it’s for fanatics. It doesn’t merely list the band’s extensive discography, it walks you from one release to the next.

Cinema of Obsession – Erotic Fixation and Love Gone Wrong in the Movies – Review

February 1, 2008

This book delves deep into the twisted core of movies like Mulholland Drive, Notes on a Scandal, and Fatal Attraction.

Manga Mania Occult and Horror – Review

January 1, 2008

Everything is covered, from how to draw vampires to evil children to human-animal hybrids and demon girls. Helpful lessons on eyes, expressions, and hands.

The Beatles Press Reports – Review

January 1, 2008

The articles appear year-by-year, and you feel like you’ve gone back in time while you read them, as if you’re experiencing the Beatles phenomenon first-hand.

Enter Naomi – SST, L.A. and all that – Review

December 14, 2007

Joe writes about how the culture, SST Records, and the people who fueled it hammered at being the real full-on thing, not a negatively-defined counter-culture.

Everything I’m Cracked Up to Be – Review

September 10, 2007

Small-change artist, signed to major label in post-alternate rock feeding frenzy, suffers growing pains as she realizes just how major record labels work.

Hubert Selby Jr. – It/ll Be Better Tomorrow – Review

May 11, 2007

A lot of its 79 minutes discuss Last Exit to Brooklyn. His fourth novel, Requiem for a Dream, is almost as well-known, thanks to Darren Aronofsky’s 2000 film.

Black Sabbath – Doom Let Loose – Review

March 3, 2007

350 pages of LP by LP, song by song, riff by riff, word by word attention to the band that created heavy. All the players, singers, the midgets; all of it.

American Hair Metal – Review

March 3, 2007

Much has been written and filmed about the ’80s and ’90s hair metal flash, most of which falls somewhere between tongue-in-cheek and downright mocking in tone.

Nina – A Novel by Blag Dahlia – Review

January 5, 2007

Nina is exactly the novel you’d expect the singer of the Dwarves to write. The comic flair we’ve come to expect is not as dominant as I would’ve liked.

My Secret – Review

December 22, 2006

One of the stranger to books to’ve ever graced my coffee table. Who writes down their deepest, darkest secret, then mails it to someone to put in a book?

The Macho Man’s Drinkbook – Review

December 15, 2006

Something to keep in a high traffic area so you can pull it out at a party or when you’re drunk with friends for some gut laughs and quality boob ogling.

Wrecking Crew – The Really Bad News Griffith Park Pirates – Review

February 3, 2006

A league formed by the city parks and recreation office in L.A. and each team is populated in large part by casualties of the L.A. music and film industries.

Rock and the Pop Narcotic – Review

February 3, 2006

This is a book about rock music in the way Henry Rollins’ Get in the Van is a book about touring.

Buddy Does Seattle – Review

February 3, 2006

By the great Peter Bagge, this is a helluva book with 336 pages of black and white humor. The complete Buddy Bradley stories from Bagge’s Hate comics Vol. 1.

The Snow Prince – Review

February 3, 2006

I enjoyed the last two pages: A story he wrote for his niece when she was upset about moving. It hilarious and better by far than the rest of the book.

The Jungle – Review

February 3, 2006

Someone finally got it right. The artwork in The Jungle is cubist and raw, boxy and sad. The colors are simple, depressing, and magnificent.

Pirate Club – #6 – Review

February 3, 2006

Legend of Zelda with ass-kicking Japanation at it’s best. The art is very pleasing to the eye: Boxy, sharp angles, a video game without the pixilation.

NIL – A Land Beyond Belief – Review

February 3, 2006

Simple, black and white, blocky, boxy and art deco, with all the factories, wheels, and cogs for a backdrop. The story is slow at first, worth your time.

Fun Ways to Kill Your Children – Review

February 3, 2006

A collection of short comics that’ve been posted daily on Steven Vincent’s website. It has its giggles, but the material gets too old too quick.

Devilboy in the Land of Love – Review

February 3, 2006

This is Edward Gorey and Shel Silverstein after they finish off a handle of Jack and double-team Mother Goose, the sick fucks. Juvenile, silly, and I like it.

Bear – #8 – Review

February 3, 2006

The set up is similar to Garfield, except instead of a dog, it’s a bear, and instead of being stupid, it’s quite smart. And Looshkin is WAY more fucked up.

Lenore – #12 – Review

February 3, 2006

I thought the “cute little dead girl” gig would run out, but 12 issues deep, it’s still just as witty, innocent, raunchy, and chalk fulla potty-mouthed humor.

Haunted Mansion – #1 – Review

February 3, 2006

Different stories by different authors based on the Disney attraction, The Haunted Mansion. It sounds pretty lame, but don’t knock it ’til you’ve tried it.