Art Brut Frontman Eddie Argos to Release Memoir and Graphic Novel

Art Brut singer Eddie Argos has two literary projects out this year. Double D is a graphic novel made in collaboration with artist Steven Horry about an overweight boy who discovers he can use his body fat as a superpower. It’ll be published by Image Comics on November 11. Below, check out two pages from the comic.

Additionally, Argos, Horry, and musicians Mark Heffernan and Grant Purser have recorded a soundtrack album to accompany the comic. That will be released by Post/Pop at the end of the year.

Launch events for Double D will be held in London on November 12 at Gosh! Comics, and in Berlin on November 21 at Black Dog Comics.

Meanwhile, Argos is set to release the second edition of I Formed a Band, a memoir that tracks the rise of Art Brut. That’s the cover above. A 500-copy first edition sold out earlier this year. According to a press release, “The story begins with Eddie playing the vacuum cleaner on stage in his home town of Poole, and ends up with Art Brut recording Art Brut VS Satan with Black Francis in Salem, Oregon.” (Black Francis wrote the foreward for the book.)

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