Category: Friends.
I just got an email from my friends at Mekanik Strip, one of the coolest comic shops in Europe (where I had the pleasure of working and spending money at the same time!), that they are hosting the first solo European exhibit of underground artist extraordinaire Glenn Barr starting later this month!
So here is the cut & paste info bit. Feel free to spread this news far and wide —
Painter, illustrator Glenn Barr ( Detroit, US) is one of the most celebrated and succesful underground artists of the moment.
His paintings have appeared in galleries from Seattle, Melbourne and San Francisco to New York.
Glenn Barr’s paintings revolve around myths of the city. The dark side of city life, the laneways, clubs and secret interiors are the backdrop to his world.
Glenn Barr’s work is therefore mentioned being the visual equivalent of a David Lynch film.
Barr’s work has been featured in a variety of comics and graphic novels such as Mad, DC comics and Paradox press.
His contribution to animation include background styling for the Ren & Stimpy show, Bjork’s ‘ ” I miss you ” video and the new Woody Woodpecker show.
Barr’s paintings have been reproduced in art journals like Juxtapoz, Erotica and Film Threat magazine.
Glenn Barr will be exhibiting at mekanik gallery, Antwerp.
‘Haunted Paradise‘ is his first solo expo in Europe.
Opening night ‘ Haunted Paradise ‘, September 25th, 2009.
Haunted Paradise
art show, Glenn Barr
25 September – 30 October 2009
Galerie Mekanik
st. Jacobsmarkt 73
Antwerp, Belgium
+32 3 234 234 7
Info: Linda Torfs +32 (0)478 294 685
Big congratulations are in order to my good friend Ashley Wood, who got the feature rights for his graphic novel World War Robot (for which I designed the logo) snapped up by none other than Jerry Bruckheimer.
Very cool indeed!
A 1-off custom T-Shirt for fans/members/supporters of 3A Toys, the brainchild of Ashley Wood & ThreeZero. A limited run of 50-ish T-shirts were screen printed, each with unique username.
I did some tweaking on the 3A logo (didn’t design it) and designed the ‘dogtag’ template for the back of the shirt, while fellow forum member Jared Cain did all the printing.
Ahh, being a fanboy can be fun sometimes.
Rantz Hosely discusses Tori Amos’ Comic Book Tattoo graphic novel on Dave Navarro’s Spread TV.
Almost got namechecked. Almost.
A big congrats to my brother-in-law Nick (that’s him on the left) for scooping up the award for Best Engineered Album at the 2008 Malaysian Music Industry Awards (their equivalent of the Grammys)!
24SEVEN, Vol2 cover
Congrats to Ivan Brandon who just scooped a Best Anthology nomination at the Eisner Awards for 24SEVEN, Vol2!
Pretty cool to hear that a book I was involved with getting that kind of recognition!
My brother Tim and his buddy Stijn have joined the blogwagon: Digital Junki.es!
I’ll be participating with Ashley Wood in Now Showing, a new project by Wear It With Pride to see how today’s illustrators and designers interpret classic movie posters. Contributors will work in pairs or solo, without creative restrictions.
Contributors: Hellovon / Non-Format / Muller / Corey Holms / Michael Perry / Seripop / Nathan Fox / Si Scott / David Foldvari / Grandpeople / Hort / Ashley Wood / Mario Hugo / Inka Järvinen / And more to come…
Coming Soon in 2008. Dates To Be Confirmed.
I’m cross-posting this from Liam’s MySpace blog:
Dear all,
As you may or may not know, Mam Tor™ are putting together their first feature.
We just had a great weekend shoot for a fictitious EPK, which Brian Luff (who works at the BBC developing comedy and internet cross-over stuff, as well as producing one of itunes top 3 comedy podcasts – comedy365) directed, and which features Ian Shaw. It debuted at the Bristol Comic Expo, where it went down a storm. This whole thing is gathering a fair bit of attention and interest – but we still need your help! One of the most important aspects of this is demonstrating that the project has a potential audience, and I believe it has. It’s 30 years since Elvis died, and there’s never been anybody quite like him. It’s time he returned…The project is being produced by Mam Tor™ under a loose alliance with Renga Media, Little Circle and Comedy 365. Our feature is a “schlock mock rock doc”, called “VZE” (Viking Zombie Elvis) – just think “Sean of the Dead” meets “Spinal Tap”, and you’ll be getting close…
The attached director is Doug Smith, who’s a veteran promo director – he did the first ever Roxy Music promo amongst others, pioneering the concept, and shot many classic covers for “Melody Maker”, before moving into documentaries and corporate film making.
Talent attached are web-based comedy duo Sowerby and Luff and Ian Shaw.
On the production design side we have Richard Dolan, who worked on Peter Jackson’s “The Frighteners” – an AMAZING artist; and Simon Bisley & Glenn Fabry – neither of which I need say more about…
Here are some links to various related sites, galleries, etc.
Zombie Elvis & The Vikings
Liam SharpThere’s obviously a lot more to everything than I’ll go into here, but it should give you an idea.
PLEASE help spread the word by posting this VZE promo teaser and help us raise awareness.
Also check out the Ian Shaw “Zombie Hunter” podcast, which is also now available on iTunes.If you like deadpan UK humour you’ll love his turn here!
Many thanks, and keep an eye out for more related stuff in the future!
Very best,
Liam and Mam Tor™!
I received an email yesterday from Wences to tell me that the site for the 2007 edition of MadInSpain is live, also asking if I could spread the word about it.
I was one of the speakers invited the first time around, and back then it was a bit of an experiment for Wences, who up until then never had organised an event of that scale. All of the guests were staying at the dorms of the university campus that hosted the event, which didn’t always work smoothly: there was a curfew (and yes, we smuggled in booze), and the faculty spontaneously decided to cut off internet access during the conference – resulting with me spending some time at the headmaster’s office using his personal connection to send some last minute client work back to London, under watchfull academic eyes scrutinizing my every click; and Preloaded canceling their presentation (because a connection was needed). Oh yes, I also lost my luggage courtesy of Easyjet so I ran around for 3 days in the same clothes blagging free T-shirts from various exhibitors (if any of you are reading, you’re awesome!) and showering 4 times a day to stay fresh.
Looking back, it was a great time – much thanks to Wences who worked his butt of to get everything running smoothly and looking after us. I remember him saying on the last day that it would be the first and last time he’d do something like that.
A year later I met up with him in London and he was entertaining the thought of doing another one, this time properly with a decent venue.
Looking at this year’s lineup it looks like he’s going to pull it off.