Gorgeous Kevin O’Neill piece on Steve Cook‘s Secret Oranges blog this morning
Art
Forthcoming this Spring from Damiani. Electrical Banana: Masters of Psychedelic Art by Norman Hathaway and Dan Nadel is the first definitive examination of the international language of psychedelia, focusing on the most important practitioners in their respective fields with a deft combination of hundreds of unseen images and exclusive interviews and essays, Electrical Banana aims to revise the common perception of psychedelic art, showing it to be more innovative, compelling, and revolutionary than was ever thought before.
The artists include: Marijke Koger, a Dutch artist responsible for dressing the Beatles; Mati Klarwein, who painted the cover for Miles Davis‘ Bitches Brew; Keiichi Tanaami, the Japanese master of psychedelic posters; Heinz Edelmann, the German illustrator and designer of the Yellow Submarine animated film; Tadanori Yokoo, whose prints and books, defined the ‘60s in Japan; Dudley Edwards, a painter, car designer, and graphic embellisher for the London rock scene, and the enigmatic Australian Martin Sharp, whose work for Cream and underground magazines made him a hippie household name in Europe.
Yes please. €29.00 – Order it here
Preparations over the Xmas period for the joint artwork show with Henry Flint at the Pure Evil Gallery on Jan 26th. Not much space amongst the art, records, frames and robots.
Undoubtedly the don of the psychedelic era (alongside Rick Griffin – hard to choose between them) – Victor Moscoso.com
A couple of Hellboy images, again featured on Bad Librarianship. The top one is by Warwick Johnson Cadwell and the lower by Hellboy regular (although he’s just stepped down from that post) Duncan Fegredo. Looks like it could be connected to the forthcoming Hellboy in Hell book to be drawn by Mike Mignola himself.
From Neill Cameron‘s blog via Bad Librarianship
Amazing work from the ‘In Situ’ event recently held at Art Basel – loads more work over at the Graffuturism site. Pieces by Remi/Rough & LX One, Kofie, Mare 139 & John Wendelbo, Sueme & Alex Young, Rae Martini, Aaron De La Cruz, Jurne, Matt W. Moore & Poesia, photos by Clams Rockefella.
Via the Daily Diggers site: available as a T-shirt, A2 print and postcard from the Madina shop
Toby from New Analog Posters in Manchester contacted me to show these great posters they screen print for live music events in Manchester. You can buy all these and more – they have a Hammer Horror Music project which is a first for me – at their store newanalog.bigcartel.com. They also have a blog here with some content dear to my heart.
I made these for my boys over the last year or so, finally getting round to printing them up as posters for their bedroom. I claim no artistic credit for either aside from collecting the images from various multi-talented artists on the web and laying them all out. There have been several Star Wars ABC‘s attempted over the years and even more fine characterisations in a more child-friendly style. These images were mostly cribbed from JAKe, Joe Wight, Michael Fleming, Ben Ballestri and Steve Thomas. Images are of course all copyright Lucasfilm Ltd.
Saturday is the day when the weekly 2000ad prog lands on the mat and I always look forward to 30 minutes of sci-fi soap opera. Who’s literally jumping off the cover this week? Judge Dredd of course and who drew this cracking cover? Henry Flint, of course…
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A package at the doorstep this morning yielded the next batch of posters to be signed for Scraffer.com and a copy of Henry’s new book ‘Broadcast’. This is the collection of doodles Henry did whilst in front of the TV and provided the artwork for my EPs over the last few years. Several of the pieces are featured and I get a mention but best of all – Henry had done a full page Dredd in profile on the inside page! The fanboy in me was grinning ear to ear.
The posters were multiple copies of the ‘Mad Man’ print of the image I coloured for the ‘One Man’s Weird… ‘ EP. For the thought bubble in the centre, Henry had drawn unique doodles on each poster so that each one is different. Here’s a gallery of 16 of the doodles.
I think these are all accounted for and will be sent out on Monday to everyone who has pre-ordered, there are still some left though if you fancy one.
Henry Flint‘s book of ‘doodles’, ‘Broadcast’ – published by Aam Markosia, is out now. You can order from Amazon or Forbidden Planet and see several of the images I coloured for my EP releases over the last two years in their original state. Some of the original artwork will be featured in our joint exhibition in January at the Pure Evil Gallery, London.
How cool is that? Collage by Mr Garcin called ‘Spider Eye’ courtesy of the ever-resilient King Megatrip.
The Bishop – Augustine Kofie and Remi/Rough from Agents Of Change on Vimeo.
Shot by Timid from Agents of Change. Spot my cameo.
And here it is! After at least 18 months since I supplied a quote to Noah Uman for his reissue of ‘The Medium Is The Massage’ celebrating 100 years of McLuhan‘s record of the book, it finally dropped through the letterbox this morning. It’s gorgeous, full deluxe mini LP style CD sleeve, 40 pg booklet and all in the style of the original (check my copies of the LP and books below).
I’m sharing page space with some pretty esteemed commentators too: Warhol, Woody Allen, Steinski, Don Joyce, Jello Biafra, DJ Spooky… The CD is out on Five Day Weekend (who also have releases from Edan, Mr Chop and the ’80 Blocks From Tiffanys’ DVD) on December the 12th. Well worth it, a unique record, history, literature, social commentary, cut and paste and comedy all rolled into one.
Remi / Rough has just done the cover for the Scraffer yearbook (those nice people who do the DJ Food x Henry Flint posters) which has interviews and photos with lots of artists including D*Face, Invader, Luke Insect, Pure Evil, Toasters as well as Remi himself. It’s an A5 book which has been randomly signed by some of the artists who were all asked to sum up 2011 in their own words. Even better is the fact that all proceeds from the £10 price tag go to the Teenage Cancer Trust.
Snap one up here. 
Remi’s also just finished the cover for another project closer to home that I’ll be able to reveal soon but before that he’s off to Miami to take part in the Art Basel show for Graffuturism.