New Shop Shirts!

Hey Droogies, my new shop shirts are finally here!

Shirts are available in four colors:

Sexy, no?

This design is my take on the traditional tattoo design "hellbomb" which features a succubus.
The male version is an incubus.

Follow this link or click on any shirt image above to order :)

pin-up triumvirate

Hey boys and girls, comic-con is this coming week! I have a pin-up I just completed that I will have available as a comic-con 2011 exclusive, check it out here:

Monster Brains

File under: "my favorite blogs".

Monster Brains is one of my favorite blogs, devoted just to monster artwork. This is as good a reason as any: an entry on spanish artist Emilio Feixas.

 Now this is a djinn! Take that, Disney!

my first kindle experience... guy endore's "the werewolf of paris"

So I had finished an awesome collection of horror stories that I had honestly just picked up because of the neato Edward Gorey dust jacket. The book was called "Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural" and edited by Marvin Kaye.

 

But that isn't what this post is about. Marvin Kaye included a further reading list, and on that list was "the Werewolf of Paris" by Guy Endore, said to be for wolfmen what "dracula" is for vampires and Shelly's "frankenstein" is for flesh golums.




Needless to say I wanted to read it.
The book itself is out of print and as such is pretty rare. Used paperback copies can be from 10 to 100$. Hardback up to several hundred!
So I checked and the LA public library has a copy, but Daniel suggested I get it on Kindle (he'd just bought a kindle a few months earlier).
$2.99!
So I took the plunge. I was skeptical of the kindle at first, but I like it just fine. I find the typos amusing... they show that a program digitizes the pages, because now human would misspell "flair" as "l4air". So it ends up being like reading a dialect.


I am about two thirds through the book. I like it, some parts more than others.




The story begins with a lineage history that results in the genetic mutation of the werewolf character. The present day of the story is Napoleonic France. There is a lot of taboo sexual situations, squirm inducing ones. The grossest scene so far involved a banquet sampling alternative meats for the besieged parisians (like rat, dog, cat, raccoon, et.al.). The best scene so far was one of the few from the P.O.V. of the werewolf, as he escapes his captivity and runs through the night, taking his clothes off and making a kill. His senses don't change but how his body behaves does, as he thinks to strangle a victim but rends it's throat with his teeth, thinks to carry the body away but instead pulls with his maw and pushes against the ground with four legs.

tattoo flash special #2 HELL-BOUND

This is a simplified version (i.e. tattooable) version of my new shirt design.



Any takers?

Euro-bear

This is the back of my great client Anthony. As you may have guessed, his nick-name is "ANVIL". I did this tattoo sometime in '08 or '09.

Anthony is an American who was living in Switzerland I believe when I first met him. He travels a lot for work, but also because he is a Strongman competitor. He now lives in Spain and is co-owner of the Eagle Madrid/FEUL (F3).

(Tattoo) Flash of the Week?

So here's something i have been mulling about adding to my over-extended schedule: flash. Tattoo flash. I have tons of unused tattoo sketches from over the years... why not develop them into flash and give them a new life? I think I tried something like this 12 years ago at Gotham in San Francisco. I'll add a new one every week or so, and while it is posted as the "flash of the week" it will be available at a reduced rate.

And so, here is design number one. A great number of them are heart designs, but I will attempt to rotate them in every half dozen or so.

Whaddaya think?