Flowers In The Rain

Voices Of Latin Rock. –The E-Mix is Jim’s considered follow up to his first authored book Voices Of Latin Rock published ten years ago. A companion too and an enlargement on the information contained in the first book. This further e-tome is the most in-depth information available on that heady and exhilarating time in the San Franciscan Bay Area locales and beyond. Jim feels these people and those times need to be properly detailed and preserved for posterity. With the auspicious release of Santana 5 and its present excellent sales, this book arrives just at the right time. The first book arrived in the swell, after the huge sales and surge of the Supernatural release. 2016 is an exciting year for Jim with Living For Kicks – A Mod’s Graphic novel, his first original stand-alone graphic book for Omnibus Press. Further book’s in the pipeline for a 2016 release are a 2000AD trade paperback Bad Company: First Casualties and Who Are You? The Life And Death Of Keith Moon plus an E-book entitled Ditko – He’s A Gas! Also on the publication timeline is Wake Up And Live: The Bob Marley Graphic Novel scheduled for an early 2017 release. Other, contemporary published graphic novels linked to music subjects have been Reckless Lives: The Guns And Roses Graphic, Metallica - Nothing Else Matters. Also in print are Gabba Gabba Hey - The Ramones Graphic, Neverland - The Life And Death of Michael Jackson, three Bad Company paperback collections, Godspeed - The Kurt Cobain graphic, Death Rap - Tupac Shakur, Eminem - In My Skin, How To Draw Monsters For Kids, plus The Sex Pistols Graphic book. Jim has also produced comic art / illustration for many publishing houses in London amongst them 2000AD; for whom he co-created comic characters Bad Company, Bix Barton, The GrudgeFather, Kid Cyborg and worked on Judge Dredd etc.. His first book was published by Hal Leonard in the USA and was titled Voices Of Latin Rock. It is the first book to examine in depth, Santana, Latin Rock culture and the Mission District of San Francisco from where this nascent political and musical art form emerged. This innovative book has resulted in a series of on-going shows in San Francisco promoting Autism Awareness and has been given further credence by appearances by Carlos Santana, the original Santana band, Taj Mahal, Malo, Los Lobos, Sheila E, the political activist Dolores Huerta, Azteca, War, Sly Stone, George Clinton and many others. Jim’s books have been translated and published in the following foreign rights territories, Russia, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Norway, Italy, Poland, France, Croatia, Germany and Japan, Argentina, as well as the UK and the USA.