Time for MORE Designer Con goods! This time, DrilOne.
War-machine Rumble – $350
Red Eye Drone – $200
Gasmask Skelve – $200
Gasmask Sal No. 2 – $140
5 various Mecha Sharks – $60ea.
1-off Micro Drones – $20ea.
See you at booth #400!
Doktor A returns to Dragon Con in Atlanta, Georgia this year. (Aug 30th – Sept 2nd).
Dok will have his own booth in the “Comic & Pop Artist’s Alley” in the Hyatt , but he will also be doing a panel rotation!
Title: Automatons & Octopi: The Work of Doktor A & Brian Kesinger
Description: From robot toys to pet octopi, steampunk artists are doing some incredible work. Meet and talk with the creators of mechtorians and the tea girls.
Time: Sun 11:30 am Location: Augusta 1-2 – Westin (Length: 1 Hour)
Title: Doktor A’s Toybox
Description: Doktor A makes a rare stateside appearance, bringing his unique brand of Steampunk toy design back to Dragon*Con!
Time: Mon 01:00 pm Location: Hanover F – Hyatt (Length: 1 Hour)
Come see Dok in Atlanta!
Our intrepid explorer(and store manager) is roaming the floor at San Diego Comic Con this weekend! Find Mikee, draw a button from his nifty bag, and win awesome Circus Posterus stuff, including stickers, original sketches and more!
The Circus Posterus crew will also be at the Cardboard Spaceship booth (#5346) all day, so come by and say hi!
The thing about writing about artists that exhibit at Stranger Factory is that I am genuinely a big fan of most of them. Brandt and Kathie are amazing curators, and no crap makes it through the doors of their gallery. So, yeah, I’m a fan, and it’s really wonderful being able to write about artists you love. But sometimes, an artist is scheduled to show at Stranger Factory, and I’m kind of not just a fan, I am a total fangirl. And then, I have to get my act together because no one wants a wide eyed blubbering fool writing about their show. Fortunately, Phil’s work has been a frequent guest at Stranger Factory, so at least I’m reasonably calm about it now.
(Scott and Jean, from The Art of Narrative show this January)
So, today, I’m just gonna show you a few of Phil Noto’s gorgeous comic book covers, all rendered in his trademark retro-inspired style and his unfailing eye for colour. I’m not going to dwell too much on how his cover for Batgirl #2 stopped me in my tracks in a comic book store a couple years ago(and there’s a nice retrospective of his Batgirl covers here), or about how his Birds of Prey covers have been the most consistently stunning, or about how glad I am that in a comic book world still filled with impractical women in uncomfortable poses, Phil Noto’s ladies are consistently strong, coy, elegant and playful – all at the same time.
So, right. I’m a fan, and here are some of my favourite Noto covers.
The aforementioned Batgirl #2(It’s a good run, and has my second favourite Batgirl).
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We have a tendency to get pretty swamped with news on this ol’ blog, and sometimes, some things slip through the cracks. So, it was kind of a wonderful surprise – like meeting an old friend – to find this interview with Kathie Olivas with Vestal Magazine! It was published during her wonderful show Haunted, which was exhibited last year at AFA Gallery in New York.
“My body of work focuses on the constant social desire to assign ‘cuteness’. This often serves as a means to make something innocent and more appealing, therefore, non-threatening. Perhaps this allows us to comfort ourselves,” Kathie says.
For more insight into her body of work for Haunted, read the interview! In addition, some of Kathie’s gorgeous work from the Haunted show is still available from AFA Gallery.
I don’t know why we don’t all just move to Albuquerque already. The food is wonderful, the weather’s pretty okay, and there’s an amazing gallery you might know about in Nob Hill.
Speaking of which, these colourful hand cast and hand painted gas mask magnets by DrilOne are available, but only in store at Stranger Factory, so you might want to head on over to the store to snatch one up. If you’re feeling a bit left out(don’t worry, we all are), there are still some DrilOne originals in the online store to ease your pain.
Stranger Factory favourite Leecifer and Stranger Factory fixture Mikee Riggs(No really, he’s there 5 days a week. Behind the counter. Running the store.) have teamed up to produce a special edition of the Sewer Creep figure, designed by Mikee’s toy company, Toys are Sanity!
Lee writes – “Turns out skating scalding hot radioactive waste is “OK” if you’re a Sewer Creep!!! Brings out the lovely hot pink of your pupils and the charred blackness of your teeth, but it does smoke your shorts and kicks!”
The Meltdown Sewer Creep releases tomorrow – Sunday, Apr 14th 2013 at 3pm PST at Mikee’s webstore, toysaresanity.bigcartel.com.
In our campaign to show all the places you can stay informed on your favorite CP artists, we give you all the awesome internet links for DrilOne
Here are all the tools necessary to stay up to date on DrilOne – so go look at all he has to offer!
Dril’s Website
http://www.drils.com/
Instagram
http://instagram.com/drilone
Twitter
https://twitter.com/drilone
Tumblr
http://drilone.tumblr.com/
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/DrilOne
Forum
http://www.circusposterus.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=44&sid=5543171e0443efb0b332d75d96c73c28
Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/drilone
Shopping
http://www.circusposterus.com/originals
and
http://drilone.bigcartel.com/
Ooooh! Doktor A just showed off some pictures of his new product, a series of cold cast metal Mechtorian wall plaques! These shiny gentlemen heads are known as “Phizogs” and will be debuting at Toycon UK in a couple of weeks, for those lucky enough to make it!
These beauties are an open edition, which is good news for those of us clamoring to own a piece of the good Doktor’s work. They are all hand finished and signed by Doktor A and will be coming in three finishes : Brass, Pewter and Verdigris. They will come in a “Mini” version, which are 3″ across, as well as a larger “Midi” version, which are approximately 5″. The colour schemes seems to align nicely with his Humphrey Mooncalf, and we have the “Dapper” colourway in stock now.
It’s going to be a big year for Doktor A and Circus Posterus – we’ll be seeing him in May at Stranger Factory in a two person show with Chet Zar called ODDFELLOWS. He’ll also be returning to participate in Monsters and Misfits III in Japan this September! We’ll have more news on both shows coming soon!
A regular at Stranger Factory group shows, Jason Limon is one of my favourite discoveries of the last couple years(yes, everyone else discovered him first. STILL.). He’s a really wonderful person, so I was happy that he could take some time to chat about his show opening at Stranger Factory next Friday. Jason is one of the shining stars of this scene – he’s super friendly and engaging, massively talented, and Brad and I also agree that he’s good looking.
1. You’ve been collaborating with DrilOne on some 3-D pieces lately, and we’re totally delighted at how well your styles mesh together. How did the start of the collaborations come about? Can we expect to see more of those fantastic rusty Limon-ey pieces for this show?
LIMON: I met Dril at Gallery 1988 in San Francisco late 2009. I had a group show there which he came out to and we were able to hang out a bit. We had communicated on and off since then, but last year he asked me if I wanted to work with him and the guys at Dragatomi at their SDCC booth. So we started to plan out some collaborative dimensional pieces. I had collaborated on a few (two-dimensional) paintings with other artists but never in 3D form. So I was a bit nervous but excited about it at the same time.
Together we decided that I’d send him one of my “Ollie’s” to work on. I shipped off a blank and a few weeks later he sent some progress shots of what he was doing with it. Once I received the piece back and saw it in person I was blown away and eager to finish it off with a little more sculpting and painting. We were both real happy with the end result on that one figure and talked about doing more.
For this show I really felt the urge to paint on panels so I didn’t get to do much in the ways of 3D with him. I did mail Dril a box of my blank resin figures a few months back. He has shared some teaser pics of what he’s done with them and they are looking amazing!
CP: Look at these gorgeous Dril customs of Limon’s resins! Aaaaa…I can’t wait until next Friday.
2. These giant(and gorgeous!) eyes you’ve been painting and sculpting have been becoming more prominent in your work over the past year, and they seem to be out in full force for this show. Tell us more about them!
LIMON: Yes, I’ve been making lots of eyeballs for this batch of paintings. For the past few years I’ve been telling a story with my images about how plant life overwhelms the planet and makes a shift within all other living beings. The vegetation starts to infect and change the population in order to balance things out. For this show, I was thinking of an end to the story. At the end, human life no longer exists yet there are so many new species and creatures that have grown from us and all other living things. Since there are no longer people around to see these things I imagined a way where all these eyes could be there in this time to show us.
LIMON: One of the pieces will consist of twenty four panels with eyeballs showing us a glimpse into a time that we are unable to see. I wanted to create these paintings to draw some sort of conclusion to this story that I’ve been creating so that I might be able to explore other ideas and stories.
3. What are you most excited about in your body of work for this show?
LIMON: I’d have to say that it would be the multi-panel piece I just mentioned. I normally keep a painting contained to one panel or canvas. I enjoyed developing the pattern of this one and figuring out how to make it one cohesive piece, but yet could be taken apart and make sense individually as well.
Thanks for chatting, Jason!
Hope you enjoyed that small glimpse into Jason’s marvelously creative brain! And – here is one more picture of Jason and his cat Linky, who he adamantly insists that he is not sitting on.
And if you absolutely cannot wait for the show preview to get a hold of some amazing Limon work, we’ve got his Candy Corn Ollie from the Bewitching II show up in the store right now!
