69 Love Songs, Illustrated

If your heart lingers well below the baritone range, then you probably love the music of The Magnetic Fields. You’re not alone.

A collection of “mostly London-based comic-artists, illustrators and writers” have made it their mission to illustrate every song from the Magnetic Fields’ three-disc recording 69 Love Songs. The project, How Fucking Romantic, is built on an exhaustive admiration similar to the one Zak Smith brought to illustrating every page of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, and Matt Kish to every page of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. The list of 69 songs still has a few left to be drawn, so there’s more to look forward to.

Need more? The Magnetic Fields have a new album coming out on January 26. Enjoy.

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Julie Greicius was Art Editor for The Rumpus when it launched in January 2009. One year later, she became Senior Literary Editor, and later, Senior Features Editor. Julie also co-edited the first book published by The Rumpus, Rumpus Women, Vol. 1, featuring personal essays and illustration from twenty kick-ass contributors. Her writing been featured on The Rumpus, Midnight Breakfast, Stanford Medicine Magazine, and BuzzFeed, as well as in the anthology The 27th Mile. She lives in California and is a member of The Rumpus Advisory Board.

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