We have a look at Bob’s new ‘comic’ artwork and choose the Top Ten positive stories about Bob and his artistic return as the world got sick
The Covid years were destructive, no doubt. People talked about it being a dark greasy blanket of coughing and fear thrown across the world to hide The Big Reset.
And it is true, our times were inexplicably changing, a world in masks, house arrest for weeks on end, field hospitals popping up in car parks, hurried vaccines and people banned from family funerals.
Flights grounded, city centres abandoned and office blocks waving like empty bank books in the howling wind.
Empty pubs but parties in the rancid corridors of power, politicians exposed, liars, cheats, conmen and women, drunks and tractor tossers – Big Bad Buffoon Boris! – and Matt Hand-cock! The Grand Orange One!
The joys of drinking bleach and the White House raided by pretend Vikings, cowboys and para-military fashion victims.
Then the ‘buyin’ power of the proletariat went down, money got shallow and weak’.
Gasoline and diesel for your car became almost as expensive as rocket fuel. And fish ’n’ chips got close to ten pounds a portion.
Protesters glued their ears to anything cold, hard and inanimate – mainly tarmac and dogma – and nurses, lawyers, postmen and women along with so many others, approved strike action.
Our world is on its knees, let’s kick it down the hole!
And now we are on the cusp of a world war…
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Even Bob Dylan was reset … the rebel without a pause showed himself to be one of the most enduring artists in the world with his Rough and Rowdy Ways, his Shadow Kingdom, his new book on songs, his new voice and his determination to stay on the road like Chuck and BB.
Here we look at how Bob Dylan kept his message on track during one of the most uncertain and confusing periods of our history … along the way he also made a pledge over prostate cancer, helped out a model railway club and reminded us of his links to the Ukraine.
We hope you enjoy this compendium – there are plenty of other stories about Bob on site too, have a look around…
… Spicy-Adventure Stories is probably one of the most revered pulp fiction comic mags of the 1930s and 40s … rare copies of it sell for a small fortune.
Today most of its covers would be banned … flashing of thighs and ripped bodices as scantily-clad blondes fight desperately for their honour against swarthy fiends going in for the kill … or worse!
But almost 100 years ago these comics were a knockout despite being loaded with innuendo …
Daughters of Doom became the backdrop to Dylan’s least popular album – but quite brilliant – Knocked out Loaded. The 1985 cover was the precursor of many album covers over the next 30 years which expressed an adversarial view of relationships, politics and the world.
The cover for Rough and Rowdy Ways followed the, by now, tried and tested path and capitalised on an old photograph that captured the 1950s speakeasy atmosphere of London’s underground clubs and coffee houses.
Anyway, as Freedom Day in the UK fails like a James Cagney prison break and our Covid app stinks – a ping pong, you might say – let’s have a look back at how Bob, in his dotage has come back all the way, the river boat captain guiding our boat through two years of hell and making sure it doesn’t get split to splinters …
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