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“Shimmy Shimmy Cocoa Pop” by Josh Eckert

The fourth piece in my Final Frames series - art prints inspired by the final moments of our favorite movies. The final moments of Big echo the opening, for a nice feel-good bookend. Only, it seems to be the exact same take from the beginning. So did it really happen? Did Josh get back to his life as if nothing had happened? Or are we merely seeing a memory of his bygone innocence? #UnnecessaryFanTheories

This is just one of many pieces celebrating the films of 1988 for Gallery 1988′s 30 Years Later show! Prints available here!

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“Long Ago” by Josh Eckert The third piece in my Final Frames series - art prints inspired by the final moments of our favorite movies. A group hug for the ages. The young dinos of The Land Before Time showed us that friendship can accomplish anything - you can survive famine across a chaotic wasteland and even… pull off a successful murder? I mean that’s basically what happened, right? 😉

This is just one of many pieces celebrating the films of 1988 for Gallery 1988′s 30 Years Later show! Prints available here!

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“If This is Your Idea of Christmas…” by Josh Eckert The second piece in my Final Frames series - art prints based on the final moments of our favorite movies.

The final moments of Die Hard are classic cheese, topped off with a lingering shot of the hero riding into the horizon through the smoke and debris of Nakatomi Plaza. 

This is just one of many pieces celebrating the films of 1988 for Gallery 1988′s 30 Years Later show! Prints available here!

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“I’d Like That” by Josh Eckert The first in my Final Frames series - art prints inspired by the final moments of our favorite movies. 

The final moments of Heathers contain what might be the first honest social connection in the whole movie. It’s an unexpectedly warm note to end on given the ice cold satirical mayhem that precedes it. This is just one of many pieces celebrating the films of 1988 for Gallery 1988′s 30 Years Later show! Prints available here!

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Forgot to post this in October.  Our 4th horror movie of the month: the excellent Korean zombie movie, Train to Busan directed by Sang-ho Yeon. Intense, melodramatic, and fun. Fantastic effects and make-up. Great characters. One of the best zombie movies I’ve seen in years.

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Every October, Lori and I try to watch as many horror movies as we can fit in the month. Here are a few little illustrations for the first three we’ve watched so far.

1: Prince of Darkness (1987) : A lesser known John Carpenter flick, it’s sort of like The Thing if it took place in an abandoned church, and instead of uncovering a shape-shifting alien organism, the scientists uncovered liquid Satan in a bottle. 

Some wild ideas and imagery in this one (and a great 80′s score), but overall I can see why it hasn’t taken hold the way some of Carpenter’s other classics have. I know there are way too many remakes as it is, but Prince of Darkness may be ripe for reinterpretation. 

2. Raw (2016) :  A deeply unsettling but impeccably made French film by Julia Ducournau about a young vegetarian woman’s first year at the most bizarre veterinary school imaginable.

I want to call it a coming-of-age nightmare but I’m not sure that’s totally accurate. It’s not for the faint of heart. Or for those with weak stomachs…

3. The Transfiguration (2017) :  Bleak and strangely sweet, with moments of shocking violence, this film is about a lonely, vampire-obsessed teenager (Eric Ruffin) who forms a bond with a fellow outcast (Chloe Levine) in his tenement building. 

My somewhat reductive elevator pitch for this one would be Let the Right One In meets Taxi Driver.

More to come!

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I drew these last October. Wish I was able to do more!

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Another fun private commission for another 80′s B-movie, The Concrete Jungle!

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This was a private commission to do artwork for the 1984 B-movie, Savage Streets, staring Linda Blair. This was a fun one to work on!

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Many different interpretations of Martin Luther King in our popular consciousness. Tonight I’m thinking of the radical who showed us that resistance and fights for justice don’t happen when and how it’s convenient for you.

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Annie Clark of St. Vincent

Prints and more available at Society6.

A while back, I looked at this amazing photo by Kara Smarsh and thought of what Annie Clark would be like if she were a part of the pantheon in the The Wicked + The Divine.

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Our Lady of Rock

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All up in Annie Clark’s hair for this one.

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Charlie X and the Original Five: Live at Salem Hall

Album Art by Josh Eckert

Concept by James F. Wright

Prints and more available at Society 6!

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St. Vincent sketch for a digital illustration I’m hoping to finish sometime. You may recognize the pose from this amazing photo taken by Kara Smarsh at SXSW earlier this year.

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Since my Vengeance Trilogy posters have been getting pretty consistent attention for a while, I thought I’d share some images showing the different stages of creation for each one.

Prints available at my Society 6 store!

Process for Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Oldboy.

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Since my Vengeance Trilogy posters have been getting pretty consistent attention for a while, I thought I’d share some images showing the different stages of creation for each one.

Prints available at my Society 6 store!

Process for Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Lady Vengeance.

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Since my Vengeance Trilogy posters have been getting pretty consistent attention for a while, I thought I’d share some images showing the different stages of creation for each one.

The top three images are from 2009 when I first wanted to make a poster for Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. The rest are from 2013 when I decided to make the whole trilogy and reignited the old idea. 

It wasn’t until I decided to redraw the whole thing with bold black ink that I figured out how the color should look. The stark contrast felt more appropriate and made a bolder statement than trying to give it a realistic color scheme. The red and blue is meant to echo the South Korean flag. 

Prints available at my Society 6 store!

Process for Oldboy and Lady Vengeance.