Hey all. I'm being interviewed by Comixtalk, and want to point people to filk songs based on or about comics. I've mentioned Ookla The Mok and some of their songs, of course, but I know there are many others. If you know of any, please do post info below (ideally with a link to lyrics). I'll include a link to this entry in my interview, and will also integrate your answers into my Filk FAQ. Thanks!


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The album and songbook "A Wolfrider's Reflections," based on Elfquest.
Perhaps my own "Emergency Food Supply," based on Excel Saga, though I worked from the anime rather than the manga.
If we're including webcomics, there's Rob Balder's "Quest for the Arkentools, Part I" (in the FuMP archive) and my "With Her Mind Bound Up In A Gestalt" based on Erfworld.
http://www.filklore.com/songs/elektra.h
I believe one of Phil Allcock's earliest compositions was the Redfox song "Requiem"
http://www.filk.co.uk/db/showsong.php?i
Yeah, there's a line between "comics" and "cartoons," but technically speaking, there were Bullwinkle comic books published.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redfox_(co
A number of Brit Filkfen followed the Redfox comic in the late '80s.
Chris Bell wrote it :) and I was commissioned to write a song that appears in issue 16 (IIRC).
Me: Shadowcat, "Bright Lady", "Shadowcat", "Nothing In Return" (all on "The Oak The Rowan and the Wild Rose", all X-men filks)
"Cassandra" (on "Shattered Dreams", Judge Anderson from 2000AD
"Someone Else's Dreams" (on Phoenix's "Dancing Flames", X-Men (Rogue))
"Just One Chance", "Halfway There" (on Phoenix's "Dancing Flames", Diamondback from Captain America)
Phil Allcock: "Absent Friends", "Rogue", "Child of Light" (on "Phil, Philk and Filched", ("Absent Friends" also on Phoenix's "Into The Fire"), all X-Men)
"Reqiuem" (on "Phil, Philk and Philched", Valkrie Press's "Redfox")
Chris Bell: "Red Tape and Sealing Wax" (on Rhodri's "Laughter and Laments" and compilation "On Filkley Moor" - Valkyie Press's "Redfox")
Rhodri James: "Guten Tag", "Spiral" (on his solo tape, X-Men (Nightcrawler), latter co written with me, also on Pat Silver's "Windsinger")
Valerie Housden: "Catsblood" (on "Lady In Veils", a Halo Jones (2000AD) filk)
"Beautiful People" (also on "Lady in Veils", X-Men (Jubilee))
That do for now?
http://suburbanbanshee.net/filk/comicsl
Arthur Curry by Ookla the Mok (Aquaman)
Catatonia County Rag by Julia Ecklar and Leslie Fish (Elfquest)
Superman's Midlife Crisis by Joe Giacoio
When I Grow Up by Mary Crowell (Roger Rabbit)
Lyrics linked at http://ovff.org/pegasus/year/2004.html
For Magnus, Wherever I May Find Him (X-Men)
Don't Look Back (Judge Dredd)
"Let Me In," my Fables-based filk. (I would love to hear more Fables-based filk; that's a big hint to anyone out there ...) Here be the lyrics.
Not a comic book, but a comic strip: "The Beagle," my parody of Simon & Garfunkel's "The Boxer" from the point of view of Charlie Brown: "I am just a young boy with a head shaped like a globe," etc. I replace the "li-li-li" with the Peanuts-adult "wahh-wahh-waah," which makes it audience-participation.
I'm drawing a blank on other songs not mentioned. There are plenty of non-filk Superman songs out there, of course. And I'm certain I've heard a Batman or Elfquest filk sometime, somewhere.
Performed by Phoenix @ Transept, IIRC.
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/org/s
For my own works there's my Batman filk THE DARK KNIGHT, (though it has a direct reference to the BATMAN movie rather than the comics, I'd guess it would still be OK). I'll have to type out the lyrics later if you're still in need of more songs, I've got guests coming shortly.
I don't know if Luke Ski is considered filk, but i know he's played with Ookla before. He's got a rap about Peter Parker and an original song House Party at Arkham Asylum among others.
http://lukeski.com/lyrics.htm
hope you are having a wonderful weekend :)