I found these today whilst looking on the Hang Up Pictures blog, art and ideas executed on this scale never fail to take my breath away. The top one is by MAMBO – how did they get that shot? Camera on a balloon / helicopter? The middle is by JR at the Galerie Perrotin in Paris and the bottom is by ARYZ, painted in Finland.
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From one of the illustrations in his book, ‘Broadcast’, comes this gem, ‘Hide From The Monster’ – a three colour print made for Pick Me Up London at Somerset House. I think you have to actually go there to get one and I don’t know how much it is but there’s a lot of good art on display from what I’ve seen online.
UPDATE: It’s seems it’s £50 in an edition of 20
Fan art for a film yet to be released – but obviously with a long legacy to live up to.
The first illustration above did the rounds nearly a year ago it seems, masquerading as concept art. Nice image in an intriguing ‘what if?’-type way and a decent illustration too.
The image to the left was made into a mock film poster using a similar illustration of the Space Jockey sans gun / steering wheel / whatever it is he’s sitting in.
Then there’s Midnight Marauder, whose tumblr is full of poster and DVD covers, both real and fake, for films like Prometheus, Alien and Aliens and Blade Runner. There’s so much good stuff on there, take a look.
Starting this week in 2000ad, the first in a new series by Brendan McCarthy and Al Ewing – The Zaucer of Zilk – the first episode is very intriguing and reads like Alice In Wonderland in rainy run down Britain. Brendan’s art is on great form too and other good news is that Henry Flint is back on the current Judge Dredd epic which is one of the best in years.
UPDATE: You can preview the first episode for free online at the CBR website now.
Just arrived – Electrical Banana: Masters of Psychedelic Art by Norman Hathaway and Dan Nadel – absolutely beautiful, with a forward by Paul McCartney no less, get a copy here…
Yet another batch of posters arrived from Scraffer (via Henry Flint) to be signed and then sent out to buyers. Above is a small selection of doodles by Henry for the ‘Madman’ print, of which every one has its own bespoke illustration by Henry inside the thought bubble. I think these are close to selling out now whilst the ‘Life Cycle of a Machine’ print is definitely sold out – don’t worry if you ordered and didn’t receive one yet, I just signed the last batch. The ‘Cosmonaut’ print below is also still available as we made that in a higher run.
Jean Giraud aka Moebius has died, he was a massive inspiration, especially on the recent artwork for my album with Henry Flint.
Moebius contributed to the European anthology ‘Métal Hurlant’ in the 70’s, a lot of which was reprinted in the American version, ‘Heavy Metal’, which helped to bring him to worldwide attention. He also drew the cowboy books ‘Blueberry’, collaborated on comics with Alejandro Jodorowsky and contributed designs to many classic films such as Alien, Tron and The 5th Element.
What with Ralph McQuarrie dying last week, it’s the end of an era for some of the most original designers of the sci-fi I grew up with.
This video debuted last year but I never got round to posting a series of stills I got from it at the time. Seeing as I’m playing with Luke Vibert in Dublin this Friday that seems like excuse enough to revisit this beautiful piece. The images are by Celyn Brazier, who has illustrated all the Wagon Christ albums on Ninja so far and you can watch the video again below.
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Just 3 of the 48 pages painted by Jim Murray for a comic to promote DOTA 2 (some sort of game, not quite sure). You can read the full thing here and download wallpapers of select images at the end.
I recently received back into my possession, several old scrapbooks from when I was aged between 11 and 15. Some of these consist entirely of cuttings about Adam & The Ants but that’s a story for a future blog. Whilst going through these I found this, written by Adam Ant back in 1980 for a teenage magazine. Seems apt to post it today, more to come in the coming months…
That’s right, it’s all coming down, Monday 13th Wednesday 15th * extended for 2 more days* so if you want to see original Henry Flint artwork for my album, original 2000ad comic art for Judge Dredd, Nemesis, Deadlock and the like, original drawings from Henry’s book ‘Broadcast’ (on sale as a cheap price too), buy limited signed prints or just marvel at some nice pics of me in a spacesuit – best get along there before it closes on Sunday night. It’s at The Pure Evil Gallery, 108 Leonard St. London, open 10-6 Friday /Saturday, 11-6 Sunday – free entry.
If you can’t make it, here’s an audio tour and some pictures, courtesy of Strongroom Alive.
This stunning commission piece is by Brendan McCarthy (my track ‘The Illectrik Hoax’ is a nod to one of his first published strips from the 70’s). This was done for a friend of mine, David Rees, and features some of the McCarthy-created characters from the Strange Days comic which appeared for 3 issues back in the 80’s. See the initial pencil prelim below and note that Martin Atchitson from the book ‘Skin’ has made an appearance in the final version.
Eleven years ago, upon the release of our album, ‘Kaleidoscope’, PC and I did an interview for Flipside magazine (now long lost in the ether). Illustrating the piece was this image by Jonathan Edwards.
11 years later and the new album is out, he tweets it and, on inspection of his I Heart Pencils blog, I notice that he’s supplied a version of Strontium Dog Jonny Alpha for the 2000ad tributes at Down The Tubes. Weird synchronicity, or, as the name of another blog suggests: Everything Comes Back To 2000ad.
Limited to 100 signed copies, an A2 lithograph by Mr Krum for the new DJ Format album, the price is unbelievable, go get one…
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Yesterday I finally had time to go back to the Pure Evil Gallery to take some photos of the work in situ, I didn’t have time on the night as there were too many people and we didn’t finish setting up until the last minute. There are a few reviews online of the show by Contemporary Talks, Scraffer and Inkymole with one promised by Art Review too.
I’ve had a few inquiries about the limited prints available only through the Pure Evil Gallery for the duration of the show as I mentioned them in the recap from last Thursday. Sorry if it’s not been too clear but we decided at the last minute to make them available as they were going to be a one-off just for the show.
There are two giclée posters available from the Pure Evil gallery for the duration of the exhibition (on now until Feb 12th), the prints are as follows – ‘Octopus’ (from the ‘Magpies, Maps & Moons’ cover – above) and ‘Beats Per Second’ (from the ‘Shape Of Things That Hum’ – below).
These are both editions of 33, come signed by the two of us and anyone can order via the web or phone too here, you don’t have to go to the gallery personally. They measure 64.5cm x 47.1cm, cost £60 each and will be mailed out a few weeks after the exhibition finishes.
The previous three prints – ‘One Man’s Weird…’, ‘Life Cycle of a Machine’ and ‘Cosmonaut’ are also available to pre-order from the gallery or from Scraffer.com. ‘One Man’s Weird…’ is a signed edition of 33 at £65 and each one comes with a unique doodle in the speech bubble by Henry Flint. ‘Life Cycle of a Machine’ is a signed edition of 33 at £60 and ‘Cosmonaut’ is a signed edition of 100 at £55.
Here’s how they all look framed up at the exhibition:
I was 8 when I saw my first issue of 2000ad – Prog 61 to be exact, the start of the Cursed Earth saga, what a point of entry. Since then I’ve collected the missing 60 before it and read every issue including annuals, specials, the Megazine and even acquired about hundred pages of original art.
I’ve seen pretenders come and go (Starlord, Tornado, Crisis, Blast, Revolver, Toxic) and endured a mid to late 80’s slump as the graphic novel boom led writers and artists to other pastures. I’ve been lucky enough to work with artists like Henry Flint and Jason Brashill on record sleeves and meet others like Ian Gibson, Rufus Dayglo, Steve Cook and Rian Hughes.
The Judge Dredd film featuring Stallone might have been a turkey but the new one starring Karl Urban lined up for the autumn shows good signs. I love it, I read it ever week and it’s like a soap opera to me. Happy Birthday 2000ad!
There’s a month-long feature on downthetubes.net from contributors past and present answering questions on their time with the galaxy’s greatest and the birthday issue arrives in 2 weeks with one of two covers (one is featured above).
I found an hour to visit the Jean-Paul Goude retrospective at Les Arts Decoratifs whilst in Paris over the weekend (two gigs in France and I managed to forget my Serato controller discs!) after a tip off from Steve Cook. You will probably know Goude’s work from the iconic images of Grace Jones he produced in the 80’s but he has photographed and mutated everyone from Bjork to Naomi Campbell to Vanessa Paradis. The retrospective features original photos, models, clothes and a huge steam train in the main hall (that looks like it was made for a parade of some sort if I understand correctly).
His cut up images are simply stunning, where he slices people up and repeats parts of their body, turning them into graphic works of angular abstraction. My biggest thrill was seeing the original cover photo for Grace’s ‘Slave To The Rhythm’ album, a record that I adore and have held the master tape of, all I need now is to see her perform it live and my life will be complete (or something).
Anyway, I’ll let some of the images do the talking and just recommend you try and catch it before it ends on March 18th.
Steve even found time to shoot a short film on his phone while he was there:
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