Fantagraphics books sponsored the SUPERTRASH FEST at the Bagdad Theater in Portland, Oregon, a marathon of trashy movies with live burlesque and an art show in February. Artists were invited to come up with their own movie poster renditions for their favorite trashy movies, and the posters were hung in the theater and the best ones will be printed in a collection by Fantagraphics.
This is one of my entries: Fulci's "ZOMBI 2" where a topless scuba diver in a g-string has to fight off a live shark, then fight off a zombie walking across the bottom of the ocean, before the shark and zombie bite pieces off eachother. The first time I saw this sequence my jaw hit the floor.
The signed 12" x 18" digital print without text is for sale in my
Etsy shop here
This is my 2nd entry: "NUDE FOR SATAN". I've got to admit I thought the movie was really awful, but the title alone is hilarious and awesome. I wanted to make something really eye-catching and kind of scary and fun and ridiculous at the same time. Like if Slayer put out an album of music for 60s go-go dancers, this would be the cover:
The devil girl has black horizontal slits for pupils, like a goat.
The evil pope skeleton next to the floating Devil is supposed to be the False Prophet. (8 years of Catholic school and they never told us about the Unholy Trinity of the Devil, The Anti-Christ, and the False Prophet. I found out about these guys in junior high watching "the Omen" movies on channel 38's "Movie Loft", where every October they'd show 2 unedited horror movies every night.)
The signed 12" x 18" digital print without text is for sale in
Etsy shop here
This was the first poster I did 100% digital. It felt weird, but wasn't a bad experience:
The signed 12" x 18" digital print is for sale in my
Etsy shop here
another 100% digital poster:
This was done in Photoshop using the brush and the paintbucket tools for the
"Fake the Music" poster show organized by Kipling West at Looks Could Kill Art Boutique in Calgary. Real gigposter artists were invited to come up with fake posters for fake bands at fake venues. I was inspired by the front rows of sweaty emotional guys crowded around the stage at pretty much any/every indie rock/ emo/ screamo concert for my "Wall of Four-Eyes" with "Salty Tsunami of My Emo Tears" poster for their "Sincerely Sulky Tour 2008". (I wear glasses sometimes so I don't feel bad about saying "Four-Eyes")
yet another 100% digital poster. What's happened to me?!
All my previous "Feast of Flesh" poster zombies raising J. Cannibal's zombie flag, Iwo Jima-style:
detail:
The signed 12" x 18" digital print is for sale in my
Etsy shop here
New poster for MassArt (unfortunately, the squirrel monkey and Frankensteiny will not be present at the drawing sessions):
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