Acclaimed musician Tori Amos gets interpreted in comic book form in July. Image comics will release a new book entitled Comic Book Tattoo, which will contain comic book translations of Amos’ songs. Amos has long ties to the comic book world as she is a close friend of writer Neil Gaiman, making references to him and his series Sandman in several of her songs. She even wrote the introduction to the trade paperback collection of Gaiman’s Death: The High Cost of Living. Here’s the full details courtesy of Image Comics:
This July the ever-growing
relationship between comics and music reaches new heights as Tori
Amos and Image Comics
release COMIC BOOK TATTOO, a 480-page, full color anthology adapting
the themes and ideas behind her songs into a lush volume of
sequential art.
“I have been surprised, excited and pleasantly shocked by these
comics that are extensions of the songs that I have loved and
therefore welcome these amazing
stories of pictures and words because they are uncompromisingly
inspiring,” says Amos. “It shows you thought is a powerful
formidable essence and can have a
breathtaking domino effect.
To assemble COMIC BOOK TATTOO’s diverse roster of talent, Amos worked
alongside editor Rantz Hoseley, co-creator behind the upcoming DISPLACED
PERSONS and VIX. Together they formed a line up featuring Y: THE LAST
MAN’s Pia Guerra, Leah Moore, John Reppion David Mack, Hope Larson,
Ryan Kelly,
Jonathan Hickman, Colleen Doran, Eric Canete, Ted McKeever, Jock,
Anthony Johnston, Dame Darcy, Carla Speed McNeil, Kelly Sue
DeConnick, Mark Buckingham,
Ivan Brandon, C. B. Cebulski and many more, including an introduction
by SANDMAN creator Neil Gaiman.
Editor Hoseley added, “While the connections between comics and music
have been long established by generations of creators, Comic Book
Tattoo is the pure
distillation of how these two art forms inspire and feed off of each
other across all the classifications, genres and styles of comic
storytelling. Like Tori’s music, these
stories run the gamut of human experience, emotion and imagination
brought to life by some of the most compelling and innovative
creators in the field of comics.”
COMIC BOOK TATTOO, a 12” x 12” 480-page anthology, will be in
stores July 23rd.