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Post by sleepboy on Feb 6, 2013 13:48:31 GMT -8
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Post by bmerel on Feb 6, 2013 13:53:09 GMT -8
grabbed the "whats a weekend" (downtown abbey) OG. lovely!!!
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Post by bmerel on Feb 6, 2013 14:06:40 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Feb 8, 2013 9:04:51 GMT -8
A nice explanation of each and every piece for this show here: www.posterdistrict.com/archives/7796For example, the Simpsons one: This print was originally created to be an exclusive release for NYCC back in October. Luckily we have some copies left over so that we can offer them as part of this release. Last year’s show had 9 prints + 1 giveaway, and this year’s show is 10 plus a giveaway, including this one. Back before I was a full time artist, before Nakatomi, before I ran Mondo, I ran a small chain of 3 comic book stores here in Austin as operations manager. I eventually had it out with the owner one day in 2004 and just walked out. So when I say that Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons is near and dear to my heart- I’m speaking true. (Funny story- all those shops went out of business after I left.) On the list of instantly recognizable locations from The Simpsons, The Android’s Dungeon might not get up there with Kwik-E-Mart, but if you’re like me- you KNOW the place. The writers of the Simpsons are obviously comic book readers, and it comes screaming right off the screen at you, if you know where to look. From a youth misspent in and out of comic and baseball card stores I am all too familiar with the sweat-pants wearing, morbidly obese, and self-righteous comic store owner sterotype. Mainly because it’s based in reality, sadly. I’ve met that guy, repeated in countless shops all over this pop-culture obsessed nation, and comic book store owners have- for better or worse, earned that rep. Strangely, I have slimmed down considerably since I was a comic-book store manager…was it an occupational hazard? The little Milhouse sitting there next to his sadly unsold copies of BICLOPS is a call-back to one of my favorite episodes. In it, Bart and Milhouse get to run the Dungeon while the owner is out sick, and they promptly fail- Milhouse orders up cases and cases of BICLOPS- the Lenscrafter Superhero. Which, oddly parallels the path of a lot of comic-store owners in the 90′s- fans who charged into the world of retail and blew their savings and sanity, while buying into the hype of EVERYTHING IS A COLLECTABLE! There’s a lesson here, but I can’t quite see it… The two versions of the print could in themselves be taken as two panels from a comic with Milhouse sitting there for hours and hours as the sun slips slowly beneath the horizon and night sits in, him wondering why he ever listened to that sales rep. Oh, Milhouse. The Title of the print is a spin on Comic Book Guy’s catchphrase- “Worst (insert variable here) Ever.” Thanks, comic book guy, I tried really hard at this one… |
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Post by sleepboy on Aug 12, 2013 20:23:33 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Feb 5, 2014 22:06:43 GMT -8
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Post by bmerel on Feb 6, 2014 10:54:31 GMT -8
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Post by nevertrained on Feb 6, 2014 11:43:20 GMT -8
gee, I wonder why you take flack for most of your posts around here.
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Post by bmerel on Feb 6, 2014 21:05:11 GMT -8
gee, I wonder why you take flack for most of your posts around here. i personally own some Doyle pieces and originals. They're very nice. This is a Tim Doyle thread, so i found it relevant to post where more can be ascertained, if someone was so inclined to do some. Thanks for your hard hitting 8th post. You should be proud of that one. Also, congrats to Ken and Tim on this, the 3rd installment of a very successful concept. Cheers and good luck! |
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Post by sleepboy on Feb 6, 2014 21:32:52 GMT -8
gee, I wonder why you take flack for most of your posts around here. i personally own some Doyle pieces and originals. They're very nice. This is a Tim Doyle thread, so i found it relevant to post where more can be ascertained, if someone was so inclined to do some. Thanks for your hard hitting 8th post. You should be proud of that one. Also, congrats to Ken and Tim on this, the 3rd installment of a very successful concept. Cheers and good luck! Actually people trying to sell stuff personally are supposed to use the B/S/T section and commercial entities trying to sell stuff are supposed to use the Galleries, Publishers & Artists section. |
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Post by bmerel on Feb 6, 2014 21:48:37 GMT -8
My bad. I thought because you posted above where to buy prints that it would be ok to let people know where they may find some originals as well. Wont happen again.
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Post by sleepboy on Feb 6, 2014 22:26:24 GMT -8
My bad. I thought because you posted above where to buy prints that it would be ok to let people know where they may find some originals as well. Wont happen again. Yeah, I guess if you have nothing to do with the thing for sale, then it's okay. Based on the assumption that if you don't have a monetary gain from posting, you will just post about stuff you truly like and wish to share with others. Not a perfect system and not 100% enforced but just a something we have had in place since the beginning to prevent artist threads from being spammed... |
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Post by jrog22 on Feb 7, 2014 19:01:43 GMT -8
gee, I wonder why you take flack for most of your posts around here. i personally own some Doyle pieces and originals. They're very nice. This is a Tim Doyle thread, so i found it relevant to post where more can be ascertained, if someone was so inclined to do some. Thanks for your hard hitting 8th post. You should be proud of that one. Also, congrats to Ken and Tim on this, the 3rd installment of a very successful concept. Cheers and good luck! whether its his 8th post or not he clearly notices you spamming the nation  |
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Post by sleepboy on Mar 17, 2014 9:29:54 GMT -8
Giving away a set of prints from Spoke Art here for those interested.  |
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Post by sleepboy on May 3, 2016 22:34:50 GMT -8
New prints dropping May 4th at 1 pm PST. More details here.   |
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