JahFurry

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.
PR Week profile of Jeff Newelt
GOTHAMIST interview with JahFurry
JahFurry on FACEBOOK
new JahFurry tune on WARREN ELLIS' 4AM Podcast:
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:
Click below for more JahFurry writings:
Interview with PAUL POPE (HEEB)
Interview with RICK VEITCH (HEEB)
Interview with MIKE ALLRED (HEEB)
Interview with JEFF SMITH (HEEB)
JahFurry's Picks for Best Comics of 5767 (HEEB)
Interview with Harvey Pekar (PENTHOUSE)
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: .. .. ..