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 Mo' bang for your buck today in the Rubber Room, kids. I recently designed a tour poster for amazing Mexican garage combo Los Explosivos (who if you haven't heard 'em are a wild mix of the Sonics and MC5 at their most ravin'est; Go check 'em out NOW!!!) and in my usual politically correct fashion I reduced, reused and recycled the art into 3 distinct variations, all of which are on display for you right here and now. Above is the original tour poster version and below you can see the same basic art kustomized into a swingin' 45 sleeve and a debonair T-shirt design for all you fashion victims out there. Los Explosivos are currently on a nutty 6 month tour of Europe so go see 'em, buy all this stuff and have yourself a blast! Stay tuned for MORE DON'T YOU MESS WITH ME ACTION!

Super Soul Sucker

Here's the third of my recent posters for upcoming Winnipeg rock'n'roll shows. Kind of paying tribute to the late, great Bill Ward and his legacy of overdeveloped babeage with this one. Stay tuned for MORE SUCCUBUS ACTION!

Rock'n'Roll Wrestling Women

Poster for an upcoming burlesque/rock'n'roll/wrestling show here in Winnipeg. Looks like it will be a real cool event so check it out if for some unfathomable reason you are in Winnipeg on May 17. Stay tuned for MORE BODYSLAMMIN' ACTION!

Arcade Action!

Sorry for the dearth of posts lately, kids. I got a big backlog of stuff to put up here so look for more new updates soon. Here's a drawing I did for Winnipeg's rock'n'roll upstart Greg Arcade and his combo for his upcoming show at the new and improved (?) Royal Albert. These guys have a fun, upbeat rockabilly style along the lines of early Buddy Holly so I tried to get that feeling into the drawing. I just did the illustration on this; the poster was put together by Mr. Arcade himself as he's a talented designer in real life. More stuff coming soon so... Stay tuned for MORE ACTION!

Evil Things

Just finished this sleeve design for the upcoming 7" issue of 2 great '60s punk tracks from legendary Florida garage monsters Evil. This is exactly the kind of project I was hoping to get to work on when I first got into the sleeve art racket so I am mighty excited about this release. This one should be hitting the streets soon and it's a limited edition so check in with your local purveyor of the wild sound to see about gettin' your hands on a copy before they are all gone. Stay tuned for MORE EVIL ACTION!

Ghost With The Most

Here's the logo I designed for super hip Spanish r'n'r label Ghost Highway Recordings, based on a beloved urban legend about voluptuous Hollywood sex goddess Jayne Mansfield. This will make its first appearance on the Ghost Highway poster I recently designed (scroll down a few posts for a look at that) and presumably will be seen on some future releases by the label. Stay tuned for MORE BEND OVER, I'LL DRIVE ACTION!

Hip Pop

Recently completed this poster for the upcoming Winnipeg appearance by influencial '90s rappers The Pharcyde. This is my first ever poster for a hip hop show and is also probably the most '60s Pop Art influenced rap poster art ever. Stay tuned for MORE PHAR OUT ACTION!

Routes '66

Recently finished this Euro tour poster art for Japanese garage beatsters The Routes. I have been digging their recent instrumental LP on Groovie Records and would surely be there to check out some of these shows were I in sunny Spain or Portugal instead of the frozen wastes of Canada. There's some talk of reworking this art into a sleeve for a limited edition tour 7"; if that idea pans out I'll update this post to include that version. More stuff comin' soon so... UPDATE: Added variant version that will be used on the 7" sleeve; see below. Stay tuned for MORE MESS WITH THE BULL AND YOU'LL GET THE HORN ACTION!

Spine Tinglers

Here's a new T-shirt/logo design for Winnipeg's newest punk rock combo the Spine Tinglers. I don't get to do much straight up punk art these days, and even less black and white work in these daze of full color everything so I had a lotta fun working on this one. More weird junk comin' soon so... Stay tuned for MORE EAT THAT RAT ACTION!

Infernal Combustion

Kickin' off 2013 with this nutty poster design for hep Spanish label Ghost Highway Recordings, in celebration of their 5th year in the hot wax racket. This one was inspired by AC/DCs "Highway To Hell"and a couple of crazy dreams I had years ago and Lux Interior's great line about being a Drag Racer on LSD and various other sludge that's circling around in the nethermost reaches of my slobconscious mind at any given moment. Got a few other backlogged items to get posted up here soon so... Stay tuned for MORE ACID-BLASTIN' HIPPIE FREAK ACTION!

Habanero Affair

I'm mighty stoked about this logo design I just finished for Habanero Sombrero, a Mexican food truck that will be serving up spicy delicacies to the hungry hordes here in Winnipeg when next Taco season comes around. A couple of years back I got to design a beer label and now I have conquered the world of Mexican food. What artistic horizons are left to me at this point? Ah, well. Stay tuned for MORE HOT'N'SPICY ACTION!

Sock It To Me, Santa!

Just finished this poster for the upcoming Transistor 66 Records Xmas party here in Winnipeg. Not much to say about this one except: Moshpit full o' elves!!! Stay tuned for MORE XMESS ACTION!

Desert Island Discs

Here's a new poster design I just finished for Ventilator Records, a cool record store over in Switzerland. As they say, one man's trash is another man's treasure. Stay tuned for MORE SKELETON PIRATE ACTION!

Halloween Scream

Recently seen on gloom-shrouded Winnipeg streets was this bold color poster featuring a reworked version of an old drawing of mine (the original of which is buried somewhere in the archives of this blog if you'd care to dig it... up) and the super sharp-looking graphic design wizardry of Ms. Vanda Toews, creator of many cool rock'n'roll show posters in addition to her high class professional design work. I seldom seem to get any Halloween-related art gigs so thanks to Vanda for throwing this cool assignment my way. I hope all you kids are out there creating Halloween havoc on this, the best holiday of the year. Stay tuned for MORE ACTION!

$1.000,000 Worth Of Twang

Brand new cover art for the upcoming debut album by Norwegian instro tyrants the Twang-O-Matics. This will be out by the end of the year on 10" vinyl and CD from Hack Shack Records. Tried to get a swingin' late '50s/early '60s style into this one to go along with the Link Wray/Duane Eddy inspired musical stylings of these Twangsters, who include ex-members of the Basement Brats, Marsmen and Squareheads (Norwegian variety) in their illustrious lineup. This should be a great one so keep an eye out for it in your local rekkid shoppe. Stay tuned for MORE TWANGS THE THANG ACTION!

A Beacon From Mars

Here are a couple of variations on the Martian DJ art I recently did for local college radio station UMFM to promote their first annual Pledge-O-Rama fundraising campaign. The cool design work on this stuff was done by top Winnipeg punk rock design genius Steve Hallick and I am super stoked about how well it all came out. Above is the main poster image for the Pledge-O-Rama campaign and below you can see Steve's full layout for the double CD comp of Winnipeg bands that you can get as a premium if you kick down with some cash. Check out Steve's cool website here and pledge a few bucks to support campus radio here. Thanks to Steve and UMFM for letting me be a part of this super cool project. Stay tuned for MORE WE WANT THE AIRWAVES ACTION!

Ultrapsychovinylization!

Here's my latest record sleeve design for a 4 song 7" EP by '80s garage hero Bob Urh, backed by Mexican garage gals Las Vinylators. This 'un should be out real soon on Green Cookie Records outta sunny Greece so start saving your drachmas to nab a copy of this international coproduction featuring talent from the USA, Mexico, Canada and Greece. A veritable United Nations of freaked out fuzzzzz. Stay tuned for MORE ACTION!.

Thrash Zone

New poster design for one of my fave local combos, The Thrashers. These guys blast out a really cool surf/punk rock'n'roll kinda sound and will be releasing their first 7" at this here very show. Stay tuned for MORE TOTALLY RADICAL, DUDE ACTION!

Dracula Vs Electric Frankenstein

Poster for EF's recent show in Calgary. Trying for a Jack Kirby-type feel with this one. Always a blast to do something for EF. There are plans for a second book compiling EF poster art so this will most likely show up there when it all comes together. Stay tuned for MORE ACTION!

Beware Of Dog!

Here's an alternate version of the cover art for the forthcoming 11th issue of super cool Canadian garage/punk/art mag Mongrel Zine. We decided to delete the Famous Monsters tribute/ripoff logo for the published version but I thought I would put the original version up here for kicks. If all goes according to plan there will also be T-shirts of this and the issue should also have an interview with yours truly. Thanks to Bob and Janelle! Stay tuned for MORE MONGRELIZED ACTION!