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JahFurry's Interests
General
JAZZ, COMIX, DESIGN, ART, DUB, DREAMS, DITTIES
[The "SKAVANAGILA" ditty on this page is Klezska w/ JahFurry on vocals + Cedric Brooks, Kevin Batchelor, Harel Shachal, Alex Kontorovich, Wayne Batchelor, Nick Balaban, Rick Sabo, Glenn Tamir]
Freaks and Geeks,Seinfeld, Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Simpsons, Family Guy, Rhoda, Ali G, Arrested Development, The Honeymooners, Daily Show, Dave Chapelle Show, What's Happening, Weeds, Sleeper Cell, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Good Times
Books
Pulp Hope, Testament, Promethea, Watchmen, The Invisibles, Animal Man, Swimini Purpose, 100%, Heavy Liquid, Media Virus, Sandman, Planetary, Preacher, Infinite Jest, Coercion, Love and Rockets, Locas, Palomar, Bone, Hate, Eightball, Optic Nerve, Hundred Years of Solitude, The Filth, Voice of the Fire, Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Laughable Loves, Midnight's Children, The Trial, Nausea, Notes from the Underground, Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Goodbye Chunky Rice, Herzog, Portnoy's Complaint, R Crumb's Kafka, The Incal, Fortress of Solitude, Superfolks, Sin City, Bright Lights Big City, The Stand, Letters To A Young Poet, Without Feathers, Operation Shylock, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Kafka's Other Trial, Think On These Things, The Yage Letters, Siddhartha, Demian, Magic Mountain, Down and Out in The Magic Kingdom, Eastern Standard Tribe, The Long Tail, Get Back In The Box, Shooting War, Billy Dogma, Rogan Gosh, Beg The Question
Heroes
Alan Moore, Crumb, Grant Morrison, Frank Zappa, Vaclav Havel, Neil Gaiman, Warren Ellis, David Foster Wallace, Milan Kundera, Dave Chapelle, Kafka, Douglas Rushkoff, Jon Stewart, Larry David, Nat Hentoff, Woody Allen, Jack Kirby, Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, George Kaufman, Groucho Marx, Clark Gayton, Bill Sims Jr., Peter Gabriel, Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, Bill Evans, Rilke, Robin Williams, Andy Kaufman, Ali G, Paul Pope, Harvey Pekar, Brian Eno, Stephen Mitchell, Camus
University Of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia,Pennsylvania
Graduated: 1993
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: English
Clubs: Daily Pennsylvanian, 34th Street Magazine
JahFurry AKA Jeff Newelt writes, ditties, dreams-up-n'-seams-up team-ups and offers uncurbed enthusiasm. He is Comix Editor of SMITH Magazine, Comix Editor of HEEB Magazine, Creative & PR Consultant for online graphic novels Shooting War and A.D. New Orleans After The Deluge, Minister of Hype for online comix collective ACT-I-VATE and Social Networking consultant for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. JahFurry also regularly
performs freestyle dancehall reggae ditties with numerous
superheroes of dub, jazz, klezmer and blues.
WARREN ELLIS says "'Pray For Me My Prey' is just fucking peculiar, as I’ve come to expect from anything involving JahFurry, New York City’s favourite freakscene facilitator." (track must be listened to as part of the mixtape, second tune, but the whole thing is badass and so is the rest of the series.)
SHOOTING WAR: This November marked the U.S. & UK launch of the graphic novel Shooting War by Anthony Lappe & Dan Goldman. Originally serialized on SMITH magazine, it's now an expanded (by 110pages), remastered fullcolor hardcover from Grand Central Publishing.
Lappe on JahFurry from Newsarama: "Like so many great projects, the genesis for the Shooting War graphic novel came about at a bar; I was telling my friend Jeff Newelt, aka JahFurry - reggae singer, comics-head, and PR pro, about the idea over drinks one night and he said, Screw film, make a graphic novel...NOW....."
Click the beard below to see what the fuss is about.
Click below see press on Shooting War; buzz campaign led by JahFurry in cahootz with SMITH and Grand Central:
Josh Neufeld's A.D.: NEW ORLEANS AFTER THE DELUGE: When the levees broke, nothing was the same for New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. A.D. is about surviving Hurricane Katrina — and what happened next in the lives of a cross-section of Crescent City residents. A.D. is a free serialized webcomic presented by SMITH Magazine:
Click below for some psychedelicious free webcomix:
Click Crumb below to read JahFurry's HEEB Magazine interview with Doug Rushkoff regarding the graphic novel TESTAMENT:
JahFurry has had the sublime privilege of sharing the stage with each musician in the below Top 40, including Kochie Banton & Tony Mason who are featured in the below video:
Click beard to read LVHRD interview w/ JahFurry
Below is an important video message from Dr. Mark Marmalard, Licensed Physician, that should be studied by all who use a cellphone:
oh man...i miss you so much and think of you so often...i hope everything in your world is as tasty as pushpops in the park...
I'm going to be in town most of august if you'd like to catch up over drinks and dub...ok..ok...after the dub...cause talking is never a priority when the mic is warm for you....
Mornin. Here, Have a cookie and a Flamingoose: Semiotext'n Emily Brown, Poukah'n Errol, Biip'n Souped has 2 showings in Oslo, Theresesgate 5, 22-31'rd of July, 2008. Don't Know if We have time to Tag about it So better Write it Down. Now:
