FEEDBACK Issue Eight MAGAZINE A5 (Feedback Comics) 2.98We just discovered this cool little underground comic through the folks over at Ebullition. Feedback is drawn and published by Portland artist John Isaacson, who reviews local metal, punk and noise shows in comic strip form, which he collects in each issue of the half-sized black and white comic. His show review strips are short and succinct, but manage to sum up what each of these noisy, often chaotic shows was like to attend in a humorous style that reminds me a lot of Brian Walsby (of Manchild fame). We've picked up a couple of recent issues of Feedback for C-Blast, 'cuz they're worth checking out if you're into the irreverent, observational music-centric comics of Walsby and Ben Snakepit.
The latest issue of John Isaacson's show review comic is another thirty-two page half size zine, this time loaded with four panel black and white comic reviews of Portland shows from Brutal Truth, Ritual Necromancy, Wolves In The Throne Room, Earth, Bad Religion, Eat Skull, Transient, Honduran, Gone to Croatoan, Raw Nerves, Hazard's Cure, The Depths, This Runs In Blood, Caulfield, Surroundings, Bad At Best, Proof 151, Sightings, Autistic Youth, The Estranged, La Ursss, Walls, Ecoli, Migraine, Nerveskade and more.