Walker, walker, everywhere,: nor any drop to drink

Here's a BUNCH of PRINTS, books, COMICS and PROJECTS of WALKER METTLING

[walkermettling]

CLICK HERE TO BUY WIPEOUT 6

This 200+ page comics anthology has a bunch of 10-page stories on the themes of Dungeons and Halloween, plus weird little surprise tipped-in books and sections. 8" x 6.5". 5-layer Screen Printed Covers, riso guts. Features: Caitlin Cali, Ryan Alves, Kevin Hooyman, Mimi Chrzanowski, Dailen Williams, Jeremy Ferris, Serena Lincoln, Noah Frase, Malachy Hopkins, Elska Keyes-Alario, Julia Illana, Julia Gualtieri, Ed Brown, Jeff Lewinski, Harrison Bucy, Teresa Watson, Vanessa Martinez, David Waterhouse, Claire Connelly and Walker Mettling!

The first batch will ship Friday April 17th, due to the extra time it takes to put the books together as a one-person operation during a plague. Thanks for your patience!

CLICK HERE TO BUY WIPEOUT 6

CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT THE WHOLE STORE

[walkermettling]

OUT TODAY: "Evolution of the Quahog" poster for Sally Centigrade Gallery's #TravelBYScreen area code themed print series! 

Quahogs (pronounced co-hogs or kwo-hogs), also know as Countnecks, Little Necks, Top Necks or Cherrystone Clams, are the hard shelled clams found burrowing in sands, muds and human bellies around Rhode Island, the "Cooler and Warmer" state. This design was rejected as a promotional tourism poster to bring in more wealthy visitors to our tiny state.

PURCHASE HERE!

[walkermettling]

I used @eat-more-spiders ‘s template to goof out a quick test of Glummm walking. Cool.

[walkermettling]

5 years ago, I made this screen printed poster for the DC Zine Fest. Featuring: HR from the Bad Brains, Olney the US Post Office Mascot dog, George Washington, and the Giant 3 toed sloth skeleton. Haven’t been back since then, but the fest is still chugging!

[walkermettling]

Tiny Showcase made a print of this very fragile kitty monster that came out of a sketchbook drawing game I played with some kids. This kitty has a butterfly wing, a rabbit head, an owl belly, a bat head, a dogs paw, coyote teeth (see necklace), and a fawn. Some of the $$ goes to bat world, a sanctuary for all sorts of bats.

https://www.tinyshowcase.com/shop/kitty-by-walker-mettling

[walkermettling]

21 Heads  (@21_heads_321) - - - Week One 

Walker Mettling’s “Daily” Instagram Comic 

Using the @ProvidenceComicsConsortium ‘s ‘Dice Adventure’ sketchbook game, letting dice decide the fate of a character panel by panel or, in this case, page by page.

Click the 21 HEADS Button at the top for more! 

[walkermettling]

Risograph Poster for book Providence (sunday) WIPEOUT #3 release at ADA Books in the summer of 2017. The issue was a big oversized, about “treasury-sized” Comics Anthology with digitally printed, risographed and screenprinted components. Featuring pieces by Malachy Hopkins, Zachary Kemp, Caitlin Cali, Marc Pearson, Mimi Chrzanowski, Ryan Alves, MOL, Dailen Williams, Jeremy Ferris, Allison Rutsch and Walker Mettling. Edited by Walker Mettling. At the release we had a blow out turn out with screen printing and booths and a screening of an old anti-comics TV expose’.

[walkermettling]

Design made by Walker Mettling for PVD Fest 2018. Used for promotion and live shirt printing.

Diablo, Paris, Pat Oliviera and myself hawking screen printed objects and offering live screen printing and blob revelations to the public!

[walkermettling]

Comic written by Fox Point Comics Consortium Crew! Drawn by Walker Mettling. From PCC Showcase #28!

[walkermettling]

Insert group comic written by Mt Pleasant Comics Consortium. Drawn by Walker Mettling. From PCC Showcase #28.

[walkermettling]

Poster for a reading and screening of a myriad of versions and spin offs of Jerome Bixby’s classic short story It’s a Good Life. Poster and event by Walker Mettling.

[walkermettling]

Process Shots from making the hard cover silkscreened book, “On Display in a Gallery That No Longer Exists” documenting objects that I saw and investigated in RISD Museum’s collection and storage.

1. Finished book and proletariat (cheapo risographed version) on a bed of original drawings.

2. Title Page Detail

3. Drawing of Iatmul Spirit House with Gable Mask (Papua New Guinea) next to screen printed trading cards of Risd Museum’s Iatmul Gable Mask in storage.

4. Drawing of 80s or 90s polaroid of Iatmul Dance Mask with curator for scale.

5. Baining Fire Dance Mask. I drew all the artifacts in the book with my left hand, using a superstition against handling sacred objects with your right hand (to ward off curses) as a way of trying to respect these objects.

6. Detail from book. Dailen Williams in ‘Chair Heaven’ storage using a cell phone flashlight to see.

7. Colonial Pillow cover from the . I used tracing as a way of doing research. I was able to pick out a handfull of facts about the people in the cyanotype photographs through tracing my photos, that I didn’t notice with my eyes.

[walkermettling]

“On Display in a Gallery That No Longer Exists” Book Release Poster. Screen Printed Poster on Newsprint.  

Poster Text: 

Thursday February 15th 7:00pm RISD Museum FREE. Fellowship talk & Reading & Book Release by Walker Mettling. Walker Mettling shares his work as the 2017 Arts Fellow with a show & tell slide show including images from RISD Museum Storage, his stumbling research into masks in the “Ethnographic Art” Collection, and other stuff he found along the way!

[providencecomicsconsortium]

[walkermettling]

Come to our Night Market Party in the Chace Center Lobby of the RISD Museum! Featuring Brand-New Freaky Prints, Sick Apparel, Huge Comics, Lunar Clocks, Insane Drawing Games for Kids and Everybody, Tiny Comics, Live Screen Printing and More... Featuring Young and Aging Providence Artists: Joshua Rodriguez, Tito Rose, Caitlin Cali, Amanda Louise Soule, Ryan Alves, Mimi Chrzanowski, Dailen Williams, ParisParisParis!, Plus!: Keegan Bonds-Harmon, Lara Henderson, & Walkeer Mettlling!!! Bring a blank T-Shirt and get it printed live! And it's FREE FREE FREE to wander around the museum and there will be a ton of other stuff going on too! Bring a date! Bring your Grandma! Bring a dozen screaming children! We evolved over millenia to be social creatures, so come hang out and meet somebody new and weird! More of all of the Third Thursday Events Here.

[walkermettling]

King Konng paper puppet (missing left thigh) from the cover photoshoot for the PCL Comics Consortium Character Book Vol. 2 (2010). These character books were the result of the first Providence Comics Consortium Classes. Kids from different libraries could riff off of characters from different libraries! 

[walkermettling]

Ada Books’ I READ DEAD PEOPLE series risographed posters by Walker Mettling. I Read Dead People is Ada Books’ series of community readings of short novels and long stories!

Carson McCullers - “Reflections in a Golden Eye” Nov. 13th 2013

Amos Tutuola - “The Palm-Wine Drinkard” January 31st 2014