Exclusive: Jeffrey Lewis to answer readers questions via drawings
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DiS is proud to announce an exciting competition. Fans of NYC anti-folk comic artist Jeffrey Lewis can ask the man a question of their choice and have it answered with an exclusive illustration.
Lewis himself will pick the best questions and draw FIVE 'answers'. They'll be displayed on DiS in the near future, and the original works will be sent to he or she that submitted said question. Make sense? Good...!
All you need to do to be involved is ask a question by commenting on this article below - anyone not already signed up to DiS will need to do so to enter this competition. Any question is fair game. Really, anything. Okay, almost: if there's something too rude, we'll delete it (sorry).
Jeffrey Lewis' 12-track album of Crass covers, funnily enough called 12 Crass Songs, is released via Rough Trade on October 1. For more information on the release, and future tour dates, click to this news item.
Good luck!
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A lot of Iron Maiden fans
mourned the day Bruce Dickinson cut his hair as they thought he might have got a bit old and boring.
Did you have any fears of a Samson-like loss of powers when you cut your hair?
Do you think
Mark E Smith is slowly turning into Stephen Hawking (looks wise that is)?
who would win in a fight
between Superman, The Flash, and California hardcore legend and cat lover Greg Ginn?
... or a game of charades involving
Her Majesty the Queen, Osama Bin Laden, Paul 'The Guvnor' Ince and vertically-challenged funnyman Ronnie Corbett?
What is the best cure
for an irrational fear of zombies?
(It's a real problem for me - it's all I can do not to run down the stairs in our building because I am that afraid of seeing one. Worst is whilst I'm waiting for the lift and I'm afraid to look at the building's glass front doors in case I see them trying to get in.)
what is the square root of
stilton?
show your working.
jeff,
how do you think it would look when you reach 70, and you ended up sharing a room in an old peoples home with Will Oldham?
my question is
Who would win in a fight between your (autobiographical?) character 'Champion Jim' and the semi-fictional cartoon character Jeff Lewis?
Mark E Smith...
...is the love child of British actor James Mason and a school of zombies fish
Discus.
Jeff,
can i get a witness?
..
Seeing as you're half robot, can you draw in binary?
hey jeff, im a big fan
you do an interesting acoustic song on i saw on youtube about the development of punk in new york and the how 'the british stole punk from the americans'. could you draw how this happened..i'm still not convinced.
oh and if that doesnt interest you. could you draw 'boy pigeon chasing girl pigeon in the park' but the pigeons faces are the faces of the jarman brothers from the cribs. i would like that very much.
a dilemna
for some reason swiss cheese with coconut heads has taken over New York, marshalled by a zombie army....do you bow down before your nutty overlords and use their holes for cheesey pleasure, or lead an underground resistance movement through the medium of comic books?
dear jeffrey,
why do I insist on entering a competition I will irrefutably lose in?
when will my superpowers manifest finally themselves?
what would the world be like if robert crumb had been president of america?
Why aren''t you vegan Jeff?
come on, draw us a slaughterhouse :-)
Mr. Lewis;
Can you draw me a picture please?
(It's still a question dammit)
dear Jeff
what would happen on the most awesome day you could possibly imagine?
sir,
you have some spare time on your hands. a group of friends present you with three choices. you can go watch the darts, you can go dog racing, or you can have an evening playing downfall. which would you choose?
daddy
........or chips?
Jefrrey,
When an idea strikes what do you pick up first; a pencil or guitar?
Dear Jeff
If you have a sandwich, and you cut it in half, do you now have two sandwiches or is it still one?
what
is the best way to wearan octopus
Jeff...
Are there any questions that you couldn't answer in the form of a drawing?
Jeffrey;
Where is Lord Lucan?
fuck off
fuck off jeffrey lewis.
.
That's not very nice is it?
(That's not a question for the competition by the way)
Loads of people try to kill
their brother at some point during childhood. Did anything like that ever happen between you and Jack?
Are all poets
doomed?
If you were Frankenstein's monster...
...what things would you most like to be made up out of?
Jeff Lightning Lewis
A question with a few parts. Is that in-fact your middle name? If so, how was it chosen and how do you feel towards it? (Would the answer be some sort of name origin comic?)
skullhead and vagina lips
i enjoyed the article be nice to hear the new things when it comes out...like a genie im having three tries in a desperate attempt to win this thing so here goes.
1.would you ever grow ALL your hair and nails and never cut them?
2.as you are standing by a wall in the picture I wondered if you were in actual fact in the oven and if that is where the gasman cometh from as your shirt looks ripped and i fear it was his crime.....is it still safe to cook brownies for fear of them being torn into shreds?
and finally
3.if you were to combine two animals what would they be?I as an 'artist' have combined animals in my past time...my favourite so far is pigrus (half pig half walrus) however he has to wear waterwings as im unsure whether pigs are apt swimmers.
small note:hi im gem i emailed you the other day about a sketch and you told me to try on here as you were swamped...email me if you think these were truly lame and ill catch you later jeff sweetcheeks
gem x
Jeffrey,
On Gertrude Stein's death bed she is reported to have been asked , "What is the answer?"
To which she replied, "What is the question?"
This has never been answered, so I ask it of you, Jeffrey Lewis:
"WHAT IS THE QUESTION?"
Is there anyone
who could vanquish Champion Jim?
Evil Jeff?
Jeff, as your popularity and recognition steadily rises my question is this, If by some twist of fate you unwittingly (or wittingly depending how the mood takes you) became an all powerful overlord put there by your legions of fans wanting you to shape the world to your whims whether you wanted to or not what would that world look like and how would you handle the pressure?
Signed
One of the waiting minions
The New York Supermarket
Do all of the rock stars in new york bump into each other in the supermarket? Do you sometimes bump into Thurston Moore in the street and decide that you both need to go food shopping and when you get there Tommy Ramone is already talking to Lou Reed, both blocking the isle with shopping trolleys while Nina Nastasia nods to you laden with stuff because she only came in for cheese so didn't pick up a basket. Does Jim Thirwell and Wayne county giggle at the checkout when they see that Debbie Harry is being asked for a second form of ID because her signature doesn't match the one on the card? In short, is it ever hard to get through a saturday in New York without bumping into famous New York Rock Stars?
Hi Jeff,
Can you remember what happened in your brain when you listened to Crass for the first time?
Jeff
What does the creature with the atom brain look like ?
Dear Jeffrey
What shall I get my girlfriend for her birthday?
It's not till December but I'm crap at this sort of thing, any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Why?
That is all
Woodchuck
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chop the head off a zombie?
Melon heads
I was read that in southern Kirtland, Ohio there was a road that passed by a couple of houses in which the Melon heads lived. At night, starting around sunset, the Melon heads would come out of their houses and stand by the road watching cars go by. Just staring at you, never trying to get to you, never saying anything, just standing and staring with their large hydrocephalic heads.
Question is... Are there melonheads living in Ohio?
Dreams?
have any of your dreams ever worked their way into your comics or songs? do you wake up and furiously scribble down those fleeting memories?
here's my question...s
have you ever just felt so...ordinary? especially in highschool?
slash:
what's your favorite color ice cream?
my question
when does a friend become a friend?
when they add you on facebook?
The Light
Comix are the refuge from and the light towards what?
Dear Mister Jeff
What would you do if, whilst you were on stage playing a gig, your guitar suddenly turned into some awful strange hybrid zombie/monster guitar and began to attack you, the microphone and whatever else lay within it's stringy reach?
What's the room where
you do most of your drawing like? In the paper on Saturday they show the room that a famous writer works in. It's bizarrely interesting, and I'd like to be able to picture you drawing your pictures, or writing your songs.
Newsflash: Zombie apocolipes goes un-noticed business as usual
would we really notice the difference if zombies descended upon london? i mean 8am on the underground is pretty bleak as it is... would not everyone be hungering for brains in the same way they hunger for money?
19th October
On 19th October, Misty's Big Adventure think you're in Coventry. You think you're in Falmouth. Who's correct?
is anarchism
really viable in today's high-speed, hi-tech world? Isn't the idea of a community as the basic unit of population now defunct?
On a sombre note...
Have you had a near-death experience? If so, how did it happen?
guitar strings
Who has broken more guitar strings while performing
you or Seth (from dufus)?
Hello questioners...
...WINNERS of this will becontacted early next week.


Jeffrey Lewis
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