The Seat of My Pants is My Copilot

The blog of Josh G. Eckert - Illustrator, Graphic Artist, Etc.

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A page from the first chapter of Nine Months to Kill (pre-lettering).

Art by Josh Eckert

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Well it’s been a few years, but this comic is finally rolling. Nine Months to Kill chapter one coming soon…

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"Like a Schnook " This is the thirteenth piece in my Final Frames series. I wanted to try something a little different with this one because how could you show the final Henry Hill shot without pairing it with that "Great Train Robbery" shot?

Prints available here!

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"One " This is the twelfth piece in my Final Frames series. I've been wary of doing super recent movies, because the likelihood of spoiling an ending for someone is obviously much higher, but luckily the beautiful final shot of Barry Jenkins's Moonlight is spoiler-safe. Seeing this in the Cinerama theater in Seattle was one of my most moving theater experiences of 2017. Indelible in the best way.

Prints available here!

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"That Good Sarsaparilla" This is the eleventh piece in my Final Frames series. And the second in the series that takes place in a bowling alley. Though it is the first to feature Sam Elliott's mustache.

Prints available here!

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"Tomorrow" The tenth piece in my Final Frames series. When I saw this movie I remember walking out, dumbstruck, and immediately calling a handful of people and ranting to them that they needed to see it as soon as possible.

Prints available here!

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"Wild Thing" This is the ninth piece in my Final Frames series. Jonathan Demme's 1986 film, Something Wild is a very special movie to me. It's half romcom, half thriller, and overflowing with Demme's loving, humanist perspective. This final moment featuring an impromptu cover of Wild Thing by Jamaican-born reggae singer, Sister Carol, is one of the ultimate pick-me-ups.

Prints available here!

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"Mike" This is the eighth piece in my Final Frames series. The ending to the Blair Witch Project still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. For several nights I was working on this all by myself, late into the night and it was a bit unnerving to be totally honest. I know this movie has been parodied and ridiculed so much over the years, but it captured my imagination when it came out and still does to this day.

Prints available here.

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"Why Don't We Just Wait Here a While" This is the seventh piece in my Final Frames series. What is even left to say about John Carpenter's The Thing? Its popularity has grown to such a degree it's become part of the bedrock of not just the horror genre, but filmmaking in general. It's a movie that's been a part of my life as long as I can remember being conscious of movies, and this ending is one of the all-time greats. It's as grim as they come but SO satisfying. They did all they could. Nothing left to do but share a drink as the fires burn.  

"How will we make it?"  

"Maybe we shouldn't."

Prints available here.

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"I'm Finished!"  This is the sixth piece in my Final Frames series. To me, There Will Be Blood has always played like a mythic sort of origin story about two of the most insidious forces in America's history: greed and evangelism. The way the two leads personify those concepts and clash and bounce off each other is mesmerizing and darkly hilarious. The evangelist deludes himself into thinking his path is righteous and he deserves to win, but when he makes a deal with the force of pure, unadulterated, shameless greed, greed swallows him whole.

Prints available here.

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"Marry and Reproduce" . The fifth piece in my Final Frames series, adapting the goofy final moments of They Live into this single bird's eye view shot. This was originally meant to be a part of my first batch of pieces that debuted at Gallery 1988's "30 Years Later" show earlier this year, but it wasn't finished in time.

Prints available here.

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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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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!