Amy Winehouse was a comics reader

Amy Winehouse’s book collection went to auction. Many of the books are in a state you wouldn’t pay 50p for them in a charity shop, but it is fascinating to see how she was formed by what she read. Some of it isn’t a huge surprise. Some of it reveals a lot.

There’s a copy of Watchmen in there. Not a huge surprise as many people have one & she lived not far from one of London’s best comic shops, Mega City.

It is however the appearance of Love & Rockets in her collection that provides a massive revelation as to what must have partly inspired her look during her height of popularity.

It never fails to amaze me how the comics of the 1980s especially so helped influence artists of the 80s onwards, and I’m quite chuffed that someone as talented as Winehouse took some inspiration from our medium.