They Live Poster Phenomena!

Earlier today I saw that Shepard Fairey was going to be appearing at a showing of They Live at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin Texas. Mondo mentioned there would be a special secret poster that they commissioned Shepard to design for the event, but they wouldn't release the image until the day of the show. "We will be debuting the poster image at the screening and you will get one in a tube after the movie is over." So I clicked through to the ticket sales page and found that the image I designed a year ago, spoofing Shepard's Obama Hope poster was being use to sell this show.

They Live (prez) by Marc Palm

I got the address to the Alamo and sent them a simple e-mail:

"To whom it may concern -

I'm a huge fan of They Live and Shepard's work. That's why I designed the They Live poster a year ago that parodies his Obama HOPE poster. This is the same image that is being used on the Alamo site where you're selling tickets for the show.

I'd appreciate if I could be credited as the artist if you want to continue to use that picture.

For some sort of proof here's a link to the blog post I made over a year ago when I debuted the image. http://marcpalm.blogspot.com/2010/04/they-live-posters.html

Marc Palm"


I got a reply saying they were forwarding it onto the dept that will remedy the issue. Then I got a reply from Kayla Williams:

"Hey Marc,Thank you for letting us know about this and we apologize sincerely. We did not intend to use someone's personal image. We have changed the image to the movie poster for They Live. Thanks again for reaching out.

- Show quoted text -

--
Kayla Williams
Creative Manager
Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas"

By that time the show had completely sold out. Everyone who only saw the ticket page would have seen my image in the left and only read: "The ticket for this screening includes a THEY LIVE poster by Shepard Fairey!" They don't specify what poster, or that it's going to be special poster that has yet to be re-veiled. So it's possible that people think they are getting a copy of the poster I designed.

If you're one of those people who want one of those posters,  you can order them from me. I am offering them for sale via Imagekind.com. http://www.imagekind.com/They-Live-prez_art?IMID=1b2bd486-b828-4bd8-a636-9704811ccf70

I recommend them because of the ability for variation. You can get the size that is good for you and if you want it framed there's that too.

Anyway, this is not the poster that people who go to the Alamo show featuring Shepard Fairey will receive, unless something REALLY WEIRD happens.

If you want to use this image for your article about They Live, or use it to promote your event. ASK ME!!! It's the least you could do.

Guest Editor for Nib-Lit

So I was asked by a Mykl Sivak to be a guest editor on the comics page called the Nib Lit that during the school year is published on the back page of the Southern Connecticut State University paper. I've been featured in several of the issues, along with Tony Millionaire (Maakies) and Shannon Wheeler (Too Much Coffee Man).

Since the school year is out Mykl is keeping it alive via a blog and through Facebook. I just wrapped up my first editing job on it and it's available here as a high res PDF. On this blog you will also find all the previous issues and more.

For this issue I asked a few of my old colleagues (Levi Bailey, Matt Biolchini, Ben Lyon) to contribute and then a new friend (Nikki Burch). All did an awesome job and as it turns out I'll get at least one more chance to edit another issue.

So pass it along to your friends and neighbors and give some love to those who contributed. If you're on Facebook connect to the Nib-Lit here and if not, I can pass a message on to whomever you want.  

Thanks for your time. Enjoy the comics.

Marc

Facebook 2.1 in Sweden

I sent this artist in Sweden some faces painted on dictionary pages for his "Facebook" project. He takes the pages with faces and puts them up on wall in Gothenburg. He just sent me photos of the installation. Here's the list of artist and links to their work. Mine are posted here.

It´s up. In Gothenburg, Sweden.
Here´s some pictures. It´s 160 faces and done by 17 artists, wich are
Ollio (sweden),
Cash4 (usa),
AKA (sweden),
Sceb (sweden),
Swellzombie (usa),
Bo Rutter (sweden),
Madness (sweden),
Tålamod (sweden),
Tarkinson (germany),
Säl (sweden),
Soul (sweden),
139 115 (sweden),
Peps (sweden),
Etno 1 (russia),
Aisakello (sweden),
9mm (sweden)
Intro the pit (france).

Spread the word and the pictures!

Thanks for the participation, mail me if you want more pictures, special close ups or anything else, and tell me if you want to join on Facebook 3.

Best regards
Jonathan Josefsson / Ollio
ollio.blogspot.com

Frank Henenlotter In Store at Scarecrow Video

Here's the latest poster I've come up with for Scarecrow Video's in store appearance of the director of Frankenhooker, Brain Damage, Basket Case and now Bad Biology. Check out all of these movies and if you're in the Seattle area come meet the man at 7pm on February 5th at Scarecrow. Afterward he'll be at the Grand Illusion for a Q&A after a screening Bad Biology.

VHS, Fantagraphics and Me

This is really cool! I'm going to be on a panel representing Scarecrow Video and VIVA VHS. We'll be discussing VHS and the art that covers them with a great assortment of folks at the Fantagraphics Bookstore and Gallery on the 13th of December.

Freak Show Banner

A digital banner which is just part of the Mermaid diorama that I'm putting together for the Friends of the Nib Halloween Show at the Cafe Racer.
Opening October 29th 2009

VIVA VHS T-shirt!

With the ever increasing joy that this poster brings to people, doing a t-shirt is just obvious.

Contact me at: swellzombie@gmail.com for ordering.

One Nite Only Part II

A poster that I did for Kevin and Travis of the Entertainment Show fame. When I came up the the daredevil idea, this style of art came with it. It's not my usual way of doing things, but it's how I thought it would best be done. What Kevin suggested for the poster was "Simple and Epic". So... daredevil stuff is pretty much that. It was either this or dragons and unicorns. Cliche and tired. I also didn't want to use the red white and blue colors, that's why it's pink and green.

VIVA VHS

I recently finished this poster for Scarecrow Video's upcoming VIVA VHS show at the Northwest Film Forum.

With around 100 different scans of over-sized VHS box art I made a collage of some of best or most interesting bits off of them. Then framed it all up with a classic grid and put together a pseudo-airbrushed logo for the event.

Here's a list of the covers I used. I wish I could have designed this for a mural, there are so many great covers that I wanted to use.
Also, these are all available to rent at Scarecrow Video

America 3000
Assisi Underground
ATOR the Fighting Eagle
Avenged
Avenger X
Black Six
Blind Rage
Blood Voyage
Brain 17
Cannibal Island
Chimpo's Wild Animal Safari
Clue According to Sherlock Holmes
Conqueror of the World
Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon
Duel of Champions
Equalizer 2000
Executioner of Venice
Executioner's Song
Exterminators of the Year 3000
Fabulous Fleischer Folio
Falcon
Fangs
Fast Money
Fear
Fearmaker
Feast for the Devil
Filmgore
Flying From the Hawk
Frank & Tony
Frankenstein '80
Freedom Road
Galyon the Indestructible Man
Gang War
Ghost Dance
Gold Wing
Guerrilla Girl
Headless Eyes
Heroes in Hell
Hollywood Clowns
Hot Touch
Human Duplicators
Kingfish
Metallica
Metiche Y Encajoso
Ms. Stiletto
One Shoe Makes It Murder
Riding High
Safari 3000
Thirteen Chairs
Succubare
Zombiethon

"Art on Record" APW gallery pieces

NOW AVAILABLE FOR SALE ONLINE!

At the tail end of last month I was invited anonymously by APW gallery in Long Island to participate in their "Art On Record" art show. The deal is, you paint on a vinyl record. Nuff' said. So to represent myself the best I can, I chose to do gross weird erotic mutant women. Why? I don't know. I'm a weird-o... I had other ideas but I ran out of time. I'm also doing a re-creation of a famous album cover with Muppets. So I had to knock something out by the 27th.

Music to Mutate By...

All pieces are acrylic on vinyl, measuring 12" x 12".

Below are the original drawings that I did. I drew them in my sketch book and it turned out they were the perfect size for the records. So after laying down the gesso on the vinyl I covered the backs of these drawings in pastel and transfered them on to the record. I had to do this twice, once for the original outline which I filled with a flesh tone and then again so that I could get the details. I used photos of a beautiful model named Jenya D for reference. She's one of the most terrific MET-ART models out there. I appologize to her and the photographer for creating such gross versions of their work.

And... this isn't my first mutated erotic women set. I did some strange art on glass a few years ago that featured similar things. Take a look at my Flickr page for pics of those.

Dinosaurs Fucking Robots!!!

CLOSE YOUR EYES KIDDIES!!!

That's Right!!! I've lowered myself one more step into human sludge by creating another obscene illustration. Damn me and the sick sense of humor that I have.

Inspirational quote by: Myla Kabat-Zinn

When I was sent a link to Dinosaurs Fucking Robots I knew that I had to submit an illustration. I don't remember having the intention to make it as elaborate and work so hard on it. BUT... I'm happy with what I came up with. Not exactly the best for a portfolio, but worth the effort to get more digital painting experience.
Thanks to Team Tiger Awesome for creating this brilliantly funny blog and allowing my submission to reach the eyes of the people.

Notes about the piece: I originally drew this with pencil on paper at roughly 8.5" x 11", then I scanned it at 300 dpi and colored it using a number of layers in Adobe's Photoshop 6.5 (I work oldschool. That's what the poor folk do.) with a WACOM tablet.

30 in Thirty Full Color Book Available!!

NOW FOR SALE!!!

Marc Palm's 30 in Thirty!!

My latest full color art book. This one is a collection of 30 paintings that I did in 30 days as a challenge for the Blank Space Gallery here in Seattle. The 30+ paintings and illustrations of monsters and other creatures here in this book are full sized reproductions of the original paintings. The book itself is full color, 70 pages perfect bound, and measures 8.5" x 11".

Ever since the completion of the paintings I wanted to make a catalogue of the whole set of paintings. All based of off creatures that I created originally for my daily comic (Lair of the Psychic Creature) I planned all thirty paintings to be seen together. And... since half of the original paintings have been sold, they'll NEVER be seen together EVER AGAIN! So catch them while you can here in this paperback collection.

I would like to think these colorful acrylic paintings should entertain anyone with a childlike appreciation of creatures and monsters as well as children.

Anatomic Snowglobe

Painting For Sale on Etsy!

I just got myself an Etsy account and right now I'm selling the remaining creature paintings I did a year ago for the Thirty paintings in Thirty days Challenge.
So check it out and buy as many as you can.

http://swellzombie.etsy.com/

A New Blog for Artists I Like

It's called Masters In My Mind

http://mastersinmymind.blogspot.com/

I've decided to start a list of artist that I've been inspired by in one way or another. This will be on going, due to the fact that I'm never at a loss for inspiration. This internet thing brings me great pleasure.

Scarecrow Video T-shirt

Here' s the design that Scarecrow is using for their new t-shirts. Check out more on their blog. blog.scarecrow.com/blog/?p=317

The drawing was done with pen/ink then digitally colored and prepared on the computer.

Halloween and Where I'll Be That Night

Here's the invite that I designed for my friends Maegan and Alissa for their Halloween Bash. It's a big mash up of design, a distressed book texture, and the drawings are traced from photos using a Wacom tablet.

Lair of the Psychic Creature is now a Weekly!!

So I've moved onwards and upwards from a daily strip to a weekly full colored strip. Check it out now, every Friday at Swellzombie's Lair of the Psychic Creature Blog. You can also find them at my personal Flickr account.

Forgotten Works Challenge

"Spike Walker" 8"x10" acrylic and enamel on canvas board

"Jewel Bug" 8"x10" acrylic and enamel on canvas board

"Laser Eyes" 8"x10" acrylic and enamel on canvas board

"Funny Looking" 8"x10" acrylic and enamel on canvas board

"Brain Bug" 8"x10" acrylic and enamel on canvas board

So I've signed up for the Forgotten Works Challenge being put on by the Blank Space Gallery here in Seattle. I've got 5 out of 30 done so far. I've chosen to do portraits of the creatures that I've come up with whilst doing my daily comic. And it IS a challenge. I underestimated how long it would take to paint just one. Acrylic dries fast, but not that fast. Anyway, here are the first five paintings.

Cafe Press Merch that is only for SALE for ONE MORE MONTH!!

Alright so I'm going to revamp my merchandise section at Cafepress.com. What I'd like to see is if anyone would like what I have there before I pull it all. I'm going to get rid of EVERYTHING! So if you think something is cool, then order it NOW!!! I'm going to pull it and you'd have to make some serious moves to get me to get it back up there.

So here's some of the images that I have posted up for some merchandise.

This is a tag-line for the ZombiErotica photograph project that I did a few years back. This design is pretty eye catching. If someone doesn't investigate what it's for, then they probably assume that you like having sex with dead people. http://www.cafepress.com/youdbesexydead

You can get products with this on it at www.cafepress.com/whykickme As well as the book. It's a small and fun collection featuring comics that are about that happy subject matter, RELATIONSHIPS!!!

This lovely page from my book The Naked Tree can be found on all sorts of stuff that you really need. www.cafepress.com/thenakedtree You can buy the book there to. A preferred way to go.

These thoughtful image from 6 years ago is on stuff at this address: www.cafepress.com/swellzombie

This one's cool. I have a coffee cup embellished with this warped self-portrait.

So anyway, dig this stuff while it lasts. But don't worry, there's going to be more SOON. I'm planing on having some prints and posters and other stuff based on my latest works.
Stay tuned for more info.