Jeremy Broomfield

Jeremy Broomfield (b. June 2, 1975) is a New York-based musician, writer, humorist, and comics artist.

Music

His first record, "Fear Not", was independently released in 1999. The record pops and buzzes with a textured lo-fi melancholy, exploring dystopic themes of futuristic decay. Musically, the album positions itself somewhere between lo-fi guitar pop acts like Guided By Voices and The Mountain Goats and electro artists like Fischerspooner, Ms. John Soda, and Dntel.

His second record, "The Broomfield Variations", recorded under the moniker John Barleycorn, has been finished for years but has yet to enjoy even an independent release, although a video for the first single, "What's Your Name?" was produced in 2004. Several songs from "Variations" can be heard at Broomfield's website.

Blogs

Broomfield's main blog is written under the alter ego "Universal Donor".

When the site was founded in April 2002, it was co-written by a collaborator known as Pussy Willow, whose contributions ceased in November of the same year. In April 2003, a collaborator known as Gregor Samsa joined the site. By November of that year, he ceased writing for the site.

He also has a blog in a debate-like format called UDvCLM, co-written with Claude le Monde. The duo also feature their comics on this site, several of which were published in The Backwards City Review in 2005.

Zines

Broomfield has self-published a number of zines since 1995, sometimes with collaborators, but usually alone.
* "Horking Lungpies" (1995) – Essays and humor about Diners in New York City
* "Fever Pitch #1" (1996) - Early comics
* "Fever Pitch #2" (1997) - Early comics
* "Life with Mike" (1998) – a short comics experiment featuring one panel gag comics, all of which used the same image.
* "Fear Not #1" (1999) – Comics, essays, and humor about y2k, zombies, and the end of the world
* "Fear Not #2" (2000) – Comics, essays, and humor about zombies, millennial life
* "GagBag2000", (2000) – A comics experiment created with Tunde Adebimpe and David Heatley. It features ten gag panels and ten captions in a mix-and-match format, allowing the reader to create 100 different comics.
* "Fear Not #3" (2003) – Comics, essays, humor about zombies, ninjas, robots.
* "The Fear Not Guide to Life" (2003) – A collection of advice arranged alphabetically by topic. Owes a debt to Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary

Pseudonyms/Alter Egos

*Universal Donor (used for blogging)
*John Barleycorn (used to record music)
*Tex (used to perform country songs about zombies)

External links

* [http://www.jeremybroomfield.com Broomfield's blog]
* [http://blp.cc/mov_pics/WYN300_viewer.html Video] for "What's Your Name"
* [http://www.jeremybroomfield.com/fearnot.html Music page for John Barleycorn]
* [http://jeremybroomfield.com/udvclm/comic/comicspage.html Comics] created by Bloomfield and le Monde
* [http://homepage.mac.com/languageismycopilot/backwardscitydotnet/home.html The Backwards City Review]