Comments on: Bob Dylan – Comic Fan?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:10:20 +0000

I’m guessing that this is sarcasm…the song was written long before the comic.

Bless

By: andy

andy — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:31:27 +0000

“In his song “All Along the Watchtower” he kept referencing Watchmen.”

I’m guessing that this is sarcasm…the song was written long before the comic.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:23:11 +0000

Thanks for the “Night” reference, Murray!

By: sean

sean — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:49:51 +0000

“Surely you don’t think that Dylan writes his own copy?”

I can’t imagine he would waste time talking about the Bottled City of Kandor if he didn’t think it were interesting to talk about, even if he’s not the one who wrote down the factoids.

By: Dan Felty

Dan Felty — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:47:45 +0000

Dylan’s official site links to Ray Sohn’s short comics adaptation of The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest.

http://rsohn.com/comics_ballad.html

I don’t think it’s any good, and it contains mature content, but it may be of interest.

By: Dan Felty

Dan Felty — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:26:55 +0000

By the way:

“The comic book and me, just us, we caught the bus/
The poor little chauffeur, though, she was back in bed/
On the very next day, with a nose full of pus/
Yea! Heavy and a bottle of bread”

Couldn’t be any clearer!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:48:39 +0000

Surely you don’t think that Dylan writes his own copy?

By: sgt rawk

sgt rawk — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:50:53 +0000

THIS JUST IN : BOB DYLAN APPROVES OF COMIC BOOKS!

By: Murray Leeder

Murray Leeder — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:37:20 +0000

There’s also talk about Batman on the “NIGHT” show: “You know, I always loved Batman. The way I looked it, you had to come from another planet to be Superman, but anyone could Batman. And I tried.”

However, we should reflect that Dylan does not write Theme Time alone, that there is a writing staff who probably write a lot of copy for him. Perhaps they are the source of factoids like the Bottle City of Kandor. But I think there is enough evidence here to say that Dylan probably does like comic books.

By: Vinnie Bartilucci

Vinnie Bartilucci — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:11:02 +0000

“In his song “All Along the Watchtower” he kept referencing Watchmen.”

Line of the day.

I could make a joke about he’s patterend his performance style after that Dick Tracy villain, but it’s just too damn easy…

By: Sprout

Sprout — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:06:43 +0000

“Superman and Green Lantern ain’t got nothin on me”…

By: Citizen Scribbler

Citizen Scribbler — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:56:51 +0000

Paul McCartney was a big comic book fan during the 70s. That’s why he wrote that song, Magneto & The Titanium Man. I’m sure there a quite a few other big league musicians we folks could name…

-Citizen Scribbler

By: Azor

Azor — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:56:56 +0000

DigitalGonzo, there is one reference to comics outside of TTRH–a drawing of The Joker appears in the Jokerman video. Alas, it is documented that Dylan didn’t have much to do with that video.

By: DigitalGonzo

DigitalGonzo — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:10:50 +0000

As a huge Dylan fan myself, I’d certainly hope this were a case of Dylan being a comic fan, but I sort of doubt it. I think he’s been prolific enough that when you get _no_ references to comic books outside of one source, and that source is the one in which he arguably has the least direct influence, things seem iffy. That being said, it really wouldn’t surprise me — he’s a man that draws from practically any source, so reading comics certainly doesn’t seem impossible to me.

By: Azor

Azor — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:55:18 +0000

I’m a huge Dylan and TTRH fan, so I picked up on all of those references as well. The only one I would add is that he played a short clip from Superman: The Movie in the California show, in which Gene Hackman discusses the San Andreas Fault. It’s certainly up for debate how much content is generated by Dylan in the show. He appears to get much straight from Wikipedia. Some speculate that most of the content is generated by Eddie Goredetsky, though Bob would obviously have final say on everything.

By: Plasmo

Plasmo — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:35:05 +0000

Plus he plays God on horseback in The Umbrella Academy: Dallas #3

By: Drancron

Drancron — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 01:48:09 +0000

“There must be some way out of here,” said The Joker to the thief.

By: David Wynne

David Wynne — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 01:13:32 +0000

…holy shit, is that Scott “Hellboy” Allie? Cool…

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:11:08 +0000

Man, Dylan being a comic fan would be a dream come true for you wouldn’t Brian!

Also, makes me laugh that you’ve gone from checking comics for Dylan references to checking Dylan for comic references…

Yeah, Dylan’s more of a hipSTER. He seems to enjoy feeling superior to people.

Well… he is.

By: Scott Allie

Scott Allie — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:56:47 +0000

Well, when you’re superior, you might as WELL enjoy it.