~GreenDay.com posted a photo of the cover art for the new Green Day album, whose title will be 21st Century Breakdown. They also link to a USA Today article on the album.

~ The fansite, Green Day Online is having a Green Day comic strip contest. Check out all the details here.

I love anything crafts related and I love anything Green Day inspired, so I thought this was pretty cool: yarn that’s been hand-dyed with colors inspired by the album art on Green Day’s Dookie.

This is apparently July’s offering from Lotus Yarn’s monthly Punk Rock Sock Club. Alas, I think it’s too late to join… She writes: “While I hesitated to name this yarn Dookie, I have to honor this awesome album.” Oh yeah!

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~Artist Jacob Thomas posted a cool illustration he did for Rolling Stone that was made for a review of the Foxboro Hot Tubs that was never published.

Graphic designer Ian Leino recently unveiled three brand new Green Day t-shirt design proposals he created for Cinderblock, along with other designs he created last fall. I don’t usually pay a lot of attention to merchandise, but I’m really impressed with this work.

The top three below are the newest designs. Visit the designer’s site for more and larger images.

[ Cross posted at GDA ]

All that talk from Adrienne about knitting put me in a knitty mood. So I looked around and came across these Green Day related knitting projects made by fans. I love crafts of all kinds. I think they’re just sweet and personal. (Click on the images for a larger picture.)

Rage/love and rebel/saint gloves. [ Source ]

Fingerless gloves inspired by 5-year-old Billie Joe singing Look For Love. [ Source ]

American Idiot logo and Warning logo, knitted. [ Source ]

And this was just funny to me: knitting at a Green Day concert. Granted that if you’re an experienced knitter you don’t have to look at what you’re doing, but there’s no way I could — or would want to! — concentrate on knitting when the boys of Green Day are right there in person doing what they do best! [ Source ]

Also, in the left sidebar are some Green Day related craft projects made by me and Cheryl. They’re not knitted, they’re sewn. If you haven’t seen it yet, check out Cheryl’s amazing embroidered book of lyrics from American Idiot.

And if you like crafts and diy projects, check out my friend’s site, which I helped set up, where you can buy and sell crafts. There’s some cool stuff on there.

I’ve been too tired and crabby to write anything, so here’s a couple of funny caricatures of Mike and Tre that I came across. Sorry, no Billie Joe.

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Drawings by the artists who worked on the Simpsons movie were on display at the 7-Eleven turned Kwik-E-Mart in Burbank, CA, during the month of July.

The Simpsons usually has great caricatures of celebrities done Simpsons-style, but this one really doesn’t look like Billie Joe. It looks like a generic character. Where are his characteristic droopy eyes that turn downward at the outer corners? Or his pointy little nose? A bit disappointing really.

And as Cheryl pointed out, where are his tattoos????

Movie stills here, via arohex.

From Despite Everything: A Cometbus Omnibus, a collection of selections from 20 years of the zine Cometbus, by Aaron Cometbus, real name Aaron Elliot. (Follow the link for some cool interviews with Aaron.)

This is a Green Day tour diary from 1990 by Aaron Cometbus:

Click on the image to see the full size page. Thanks to Mara for the scan.

Sculpture of Billie Joe by a fifth grader. [ Source ]

Artist’s statement: “I had to make Green Day’s lead singer, Billie Joe, because I think Green Day is the best band ever.” I have to agree. Kids get right to the point, don’t they?

I love crafts, they’re like little love letters made with glue and paint, or fabric and yarn, or even egg cartons and macaroni. It almost makes me think of the offerings, like small paintings and other precious objects, made by the devout in earlier times in gratitude for a miracle granted. I know, I’m going off the deep end again… I like the sculpture though.

[Written June 2, 2006, by Delfina]

I’ve always loved paper dolls. Just the idea that a piece of paper with some stuff printed on it can be a toy is so wonderfully simple. Plus there is no end to how many outfits you can make, in seconds, just by tracing around the outline of the doll and filling it in with bows and blazers and clown costumes… When I was little, maybe six, a neighbor showed me how you can place the doll over a model’s picture in a fashion magazine and trace around the doll to fit the dress in the picture to the doll. I thought that was brilliant. And I figured everything in a magazine can be a dress, so I had my paper dolls wearing soup cans and blocks of text. So modernist for a six year old.

Anyway, I wasn’t going to post this but I can’t stop myself. Not long ago a magazine came out with some Billie Joe [of Green Day] sticker dolls, and I just found them lacking in so many ways: no tattoos, silly heart boxers, and a huge staring head that looked like a demented elf. Or Liza Minelli. [Plus Hillary Duff was in there too…] So I couldn’t leave it alone and had to make my own version of Green Day paper dolls. Okay, it’s only Billie Joe. I think it’s very mild but I suppose, uh, don’t click it if you’re underage.

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