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Edited by Greg Johnson
Editor’s Note:
What follows is all my extant correspondence with Jonathan Bowden from 2010. Once he started sending me articles for Counter-Currents, Jonathan would typically send the entire article as an email. For brevity, I have included just the titles. The articles themselves are found on Counter-Currents. There is one exception: the play Straight as an Arrow as well as Jonathan’s introductory note are included in their entirety, because I did not publish them at Counter-Currents.
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November
Jonathan Bowden to Greg Johnson
To: Greg Johnson
From: Jonathan Bowden
11/6/2010, 3:28 PM
Subject: A Review
NO ORCHIDS FOR MISS BLANDISH
by James Hadley Chase
CRIMINOLOGY, ELITISM, NIHILISM; a review
by John Michael McCloughlin
Jonathan Bowden to Greg Johnson
To: Greg Johnson
From: Jonathan Bowden
11/12/2010, 5:21 PM
Subject: Batman & the Joker
A Review of The Brave and the Bold (March 1974, #111)
A Team-up comic featuring Batman and the Joker
(It could possibly appear in a section devoted to graphic novels).
Jonathan Bowden to Greg Johnson
To: Greg Johnson
From: Jonathan Bowden
Thursday, November 18, 2010 7:24 AM
Subject: A REVIEW
FRANK FRAZETTA: THE NEW ARNO BREKER?
An Interpretation by Jonathan Bowden
Greg Johnson to Jonathan Bowden
From: [email protected]
To: Jonathan Bowden
Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:56:59 -0800
Subject: Re: A REVIEW
Jonathan,
This is superb.
Your last couple of pieces are getting a good deal of readership, and I think that this piece will do even better. Thanks so much for this work, which really could not be done by anyone else in our cause.
I would be honored if you would write an essay for the first volume of North American New Right, which I will publish next March. The format is an annual paperback volume on the lines of the Tyr journal. The topic is up to you. The word count can be between 2,500 and 4,000 words. The deadline is December 31.
All the best,
Greg
Jonathan Bowden to Greg Johnson
To: Greg Johnson
From: Jonathan Bowden
11/25/2010, 5:36 PM
Subject: A Review
Dear Greg Johnson,
Thanks for your recent letter. I will endeavour to do an article for your cultural review, The North American New Right, by the specified dead-line at the end of December. I may well do a review of one of the world’s most famous artistic comics—outside Japan, at any rate. That’s the fully adult and psychologically real (or hard-edged) version of Batman and the Joker in Arkham Asylum.
Yours ever,
Jonathan Bowden
Jonathan Bowden to Greg Johnson
To: Greg Johnson
From: Jonathan Bowden
11/23/2010, 5:20 PM
Subject: A Review
WYNDHAM LEWIS’ THE CHILDERMASS: BLACK METAL MUSIC WITHOUT THE METAL
Greg Johnson to Jonathan Bowden
To: Jonathan Bowden
From: Greg Johnson
11/23/2010, 8:13 PM
Subject: A Review
Thanks for this. It will go up on Sunday.
Greg
Jonathan Bowden to Greg Johnson
To: Greg Johnson
From: Jonathan Bowden
11/26/2010, 5:56 PM
Subject: Films
Dear Gregory Johnson,
I was interested in what you had to say about encouraging artists in your interview with Alex Kurtagic on Wermod and Wermod. I also noted the remark where you said that film was the most complete art-work of all. It is, as you suggest, the nearest that Modernity has have got to the Wagnerian ideal of the total art work. I have made two feature films thus far. Obviously they are not Hollywood (they cost around £800.00 pounds each to make). I don’t know if you would like to stream one of them, Venus Fly-Trap, on Counter-Currents? It lasts about an hour and has been positioned on Google video for about three and a half years. Approximately ten thousand people (separate URLs) have seen it or been to it. It would upset some people and it is implicit rather than explicit—it concerns a mad scientist (Mordred) who wishes to exterminate all humans and replace them with plants. It’s a Nietzschean film. It should probably only be shown in conjunction with Troy Southgate’s exemplificatory review which explains pretty accurately what it’s about and would help to make it ‘acceptable’ to a Rightwing audience.
The link is as follows:
http://www.jonathanbowden.co.uk/venus_flytrap.html
Yours ever,
Jonathan Bowden
From: Jonathan Bowden
To: Greg Johnson
11/30/2010, 5:48 PM
Subject: An Article
BLIND CYCLOPS: the strange case of Doctor Fredric Wertham
December
Jonathan Bowden to Greg Johnson
To: Greg Johnson
From: Jonathan Bowden
12/7/2010, 5:53 PM
Subject: A Review
STEWART HOME AND CULTURAL COMMUNISM
by Jonathan Bowden
Greg Johnson to Jonathan Bowden
To: Jonathan Bowden
From: Greg Johnson
12/8/2010, 2:41 AM
Subject: A Review
Thanks. This is great. I will put it up on Friday.
Greg
To: Greg Johnson
From: Jonathan Bowden
Friday, December 17, 2010, 7:21 AM
Subject: AN ARTICLE
ZEUS HANGS HERA AT THE WORLD’S EDGE
Arno Breker and the pursuit of perfection
by Jonathan Bowden
Greg Johnson to Jonathan Bowden
To: Jonathan Bowden
From: Greg Johnson
12/17/2010, 10:41 PM
Subject: AN ARTICLE
Thanks for this!
Jonathan Bowden to Greg Johnson
To: Greg Johnson
From: Jonathan Bowden
Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:46:29 +0000
Subject: ARKHAM ASYLUM: a Review or Treatment
Dear Greg Johnson,
You might like to think of my review as a contribution to the American New Right Review. I don’t know whether you intend to place such items or contributions on the web-site as well?
by Jonathan Bowden
Jonathan Bowden to Greg Johnson
To: Greg Johnson
From: Jonathan Bowden
12/24/2010, 1:06 PM
Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
Dear Greg Johnson,
This article on Batman, the Joker and Arkham Asylum is quite long (possibly the longest I have done thus far) and so I am sending it to you as an attachment. It should prove relatively straightforward to open and peruse it, etc…
Yours ever,
Jonathan Bowden
Greg Johnson to Jonathan Bowden
To: Jonathan Bowden
From: [email protected]
Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:52:30 -0500
Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
Dear Jonathan,
Thanks for this very interesting piece. I will put it online and in the first volume of North American New Right. I am beginning work on this, and I wonder if you could supply a sentence contextualizing Arkham Asylum, since it is in many different comics as well as video games, and indicating your principal sources.
Thanks,
Greg
Jonathan Bowden to Greg Johnson
To: Greg Johnson
From: Jonathan Bowden
Thursday, December 30, 2010 8:08 AM
Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
Dear Greg Johnson,
I apologise for not replying sooner, but I have been away for the whole of Christmas. The article is essentially an extended review of Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, DC Comics, October 1989. The script was by Grant Morrison; the art by Dave Mckean. It is the source for all the related spin-offs. There is a Wikipedia link at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkham_Asylum_A_Serious_House_on_Serious_Earth
The phrase ‘Serious house on serious earth’ comes from a line by Philip Larkin.
Yours ever,
Jonathan Bowden
Greg Johnson to Jonathan Bowden
To: Jonathan Bowden
From: Greg Johnson
1/2/2011, 6:45 AM
Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
Thanks
I look forward to seeing you at AR.
Greg