Peng

'Peng!' just seemed to be the right sound for a wire mesh fence gradually coming apart, wires snapping one by one, but I was sure I'd seen it somewhere before. It turns out it was from a Swiss revolutionary comic from the 1968 student protests, 'The Deadly Finger'. It's the sound of the reader being shot by a revolutionary for being too bourgeois. And the last frame of the comic was also used by Stereolab as the logo for Peng Records, the indie label they released their first few albums on...