"HOT SNAKES" 9/1/22 11" x 17" #offsetprint! . WOW...today marks the 20th anniversary of the @hotsnakesband poster I designed...way back in 2002! . #HOTSNAKES was one of my favorite bands growing up! I also grew up on @rftcrftc and @dljband . So it was a big deal to design a poster for a @swami_john_reis project. A lot of great artists have done art for one of the bands he's been in. Including #Pushead! #AutomaticMidnight and #SuicideInvoice are my favorite albums by HS. Please check them out!!! I remember going to the show at the @thetroubadour and being blown away by how AMAZING @beehiveandthebarracudas were. (Around that time "'Plastic Soul' With The White Apes" had come out and I was playing it nonstop! You need to check it out!) . Anywho... It was my first time seeing both bands. I waited patiently after the show and talked to John Reis for a bit and got him to sign a copy of the poster for me. We chatted and he made my day by getting the #GustavKlimt reference! . I was (and still am) a big fan of the #SecessionMovement. #Klimt , #KolomanMoser , and #AlphonseMucha were all members of that group. Look it up! They started one of the first illustration magazines #VerSacrum and often contributed to #Jugend Magazine back at the turn of the century. I "borrowed" the idea from a detail of Klimt's painting "Medicine" which was sadly destroyed by the Nazis back in 1945... I want to revisit that idea again. I also tried to sneak in a bit of the #JackKirby influence by making the clothing flat and graphic. Kinda like his designs of the Sentinels. . Living in LA in the early 2000s was an exciting time for me and I was fortunate enough to be one of the regular "poster guys" for #theTroubadour! I was still trying to figure out how to draw and navigate life in LA and life as a freelancer. I'm surprised I made it this far. And maybe someday I'll be back in LA for good. Or San Diego. Or Santa Ana. I can't make up my mind. . So that's my memory of designing this poster for Hot Snakes! . . Hey, I'll be at #NewYorkComicCon this year!!! BOOTH 1373!!! . . . . . #brianewing #illustration #gigposter #rocketfromthectypt #rftc #gigposter #brianewingfiendclub (at The Troubadour) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch-iFTEJDpL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
